Qlik and its NGO partners focus on leveraging data to bring a positive impact to the world. While we are still seeing the effects of the COVID pandemic throughout society, there are tremendous lessons that we can carry forward to be better prepared for the next likely pandemic.

The explosive rise of generative AI has prompted incredible excitement about its transformative potential, much like the advent of the Internet. But if like me, you’re old enough to remember what that looked like circa 1995, there was a lot we did not know at the time, creating uncertainty in both worlds of work and education on how to best leverage it, and whether providing unlimited access to employees or students was a good idea.

Last week’s announcement of a data fabric approach from Microsoft was interesting to us on a number of levels, most notably for what it confirmed: Data Fabrics are now mainstream. If you’ve not heard why Data Fabrics are the next big thing, then here is a bit of history. Data Fabric is a concept that started to take hold over a decade ago with published research from Forrester.