Qlik Sense Tour 2016 Highlights

Keynote speakers

Ometis’ own Andy Patrick – Head of Sales and Qlik’s David Sedgwick – Principle Solution Architect gave the keynote speeches and demos explaining how by connecting, people, data and ideas you can uncover new data driven possibilities and see the whole story that lives within your data.

Customer Presentation

Gary Higgins- Financial Director at Pipers Crisps explored how his company are using Qlik to deliver detailed analytics across their entire organisation, towards their ambitious goals over the coming years.

Hands-on workshop

The hands-on workshop led by Chris Fitzpatrick allowed our delegates to experience Qlik Sense in action. Everyone got to experience Qlik’s platform for themselves, by putting in their own data. We put the power of data discovery right into their hands and helped them uncover new data driven possibilities.

With step-by-step instruction, guided by our experts, they were able to:

Build a fully functional dashboard application
Easily navigate their own application
Use interactive storytelling to present their findings

Networking Opportunities

As always these events are a great way to network with peers, Qlik, Ometis & and current Qlik customers who share similar day-to-day challenges. All questions were answered by the experts and everyone found out more about the wonderful world of Qlik Sense.

Overall, a great day and we can’t wait to see you at next year’s event!
With Time-aware charts you simply add the original Date field to the chart and Qlik Sense will automatically work out the best way to display it. It could be days, weeks, months or years – Qlik Sense will automatically scale the chart for you.

In addition to this, it will also understand if you have missing data points where you may want to show a continuous scale and auto-fill the gaps. Line charts are available in this release, but you can expect to see other chart types with this functionality in future versions.

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Widgets

This new feature gives us, the developers, the freedom to create what the customer wants but doesn’t yet exist in Qlik Sense. Widgets can adapt to the shape and size and the customisation possibilities are endless. In this example we’ve made a KPI where the icon can relocate itself or disappear if necessary depending on the size and shape of the widget. The icon and the colours can be changed and the second measure is optional, and this is only the beginning!

The widget editor allows us to use HTML, CSS and Angular.js to create and edit widgets. It’s a comfortable place for a developer and gives us all the tools we need to preview our widgets as well as to connect them to a published app to test it with real values.

This is just tip of the Widget iceberg – the possibilities are endless!

DataMarket

Qlik DataMarket is a revolutionary new Data-As-A-Service offering from Qlik. It allows direct access to a range of standardised information that can help supplement your analytics. With Qlik Sense 3.0, Qlik have included access to four new premium data packages:

Historical stock prices from major stock exchanges
Financial data from companies worldwide
Population indicators for India’s states and districts
Population of Canada by provinces or territories
While we expect Qlik to continue to add in population and demographic data of new countries fairly regularly, it’s great to see some additional company and financial markets data being released.

We can see some great use-cases for this. Imagine supplementing your ERP or CRM data with the latest stats about your Customers or Vendors. For some of our Financial Services customers, having the ability to get single-source access to financial markets data will make a big difference in how responsive they can be when making data-driven decisions based on Qlik dashboards.

We’re looking forward to seeing what other new packages are made available in the coming months.