Free Qlik Sense / QlikView Demo Session in Singapore on September 16th

Qlik has recently released a new version and more mature version of Qlik Sense, Qlik Sense 2.0, and also a brand new concept / platform named Qlik Analytics Platform. Besides, Qlik Sense now also has a cloud version where you can use this cutting edge data visualization software as SaaS.

There will be a QlikView / Qlik Sense introduction event at 9am - 11am on 16th September 2015 in Singapore Management University. In this event, you will not only have a chance to learn about Qlik product and platform family, you will also have chance to see the newest features of Qlik Sense and QlikView.

This event is a free and for registration and details you can visit Free Qlik workshop for Business Users and IT professionals: Interactive Business Reporting and Analysis with QlikView & Qlik Sense page.

Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense
Imagine analytics so intuitive, anyone in your company could easily create personalized reports and dynamic dashboards to explore vast amounts of data and find meaningful insights. And imagine if this could be done while ensuring accuracy and reliability of data and analytics. That’s Qlik Sense —a revolutionary visual analytics platform that supports self-service visualization, guided analytics apps and dashboards, embedded analytics, and reporting, all within a governed framework that offers enterprise scalability and trust for IT.

QlikView
The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self-service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision-making.

Introduction to Qlik Sense in Singapore

Qlik has recently intoduced its brand new product, Qlik Sense, and as a Qlik partner, Knowledge Management Solutions is starting a series of apps build events in the upcoming months to introduce this exiting new product.

Known as "Build Your First Data Visualization Dashboard in half-day", this 4 hours free Qlik Sense introduction offers a hands-on experience with this new self-service Business Intelligence solution. Qlik Sense free desktop application will be used in the session so there is not license cost at all.

The apps build session is on 9th January 2015 between 10:00 AM and 14:00 PM and will cover a hands-on session where you will build your first Qlik Sense Business Intelligence Dashboard with a Qlik Sense expert. See below for details and to register.

Build Your First Data Visualization Dashboard in half-day!
Data Analytics with Qlik Sense

You are invited to join Knowledge Management Solutions Pte Ltd for Data visualization by Qlik Sense Desktop Session.

The hands-on approach allows you to build a Qlik Sense application that integrates real data from several different sources and presents it in dashboards, analyses and reports.  Qlik Sense Business Intelligence dashboards allow organizations to analyze data quickly.  Its intuitive user interface means there’s no need for canned reports, dashboard widgets, or templates to get started. Through Qlik Sense’s disruptive, in-memory associative approach, business users have experiences unprecedented success and satisfaction.

Qlik Sense

Who should attend?
Business people, General Managers, Analysts, Operations Managers, IT Managers, HR Managers, Finance Managers, Marketing Managers, Sales Managers, Service Managers, etc.

What you will learn during the hands-on session:
You will build your first Qlik Sense Business Intelligence Dashboard.


This training will be provided by our key consultants who on average have more than 15 years of experience in Business Intelligence and Analytics.

Seats are limited hence we encourage you to register early to secure your seat(s).

Date: 6th March 2015 (Let us know if this date does not work for you. We will inform you for the next event).
Time: 10 am to 2 pm (registration starts at 9:45 am)

Venue:  9 Temasek Boulevard #17-02, Suntec Tower Two S(038989), Singapore
Agenda:
1. Introduction to Qlik Sense Business Intelligence
2. Create your Business Intelligence Application with Qlik Sense
Tea Break
3. Data extraction from different sources
4. Data modeling
5. Design of graphs and charts
6. Build your advanced dashboard (Analytics and Reporting)

If you would like to join us kindly send an email to levent@kms-world.com with your name, designation, company, and official email and phone details or click below to register.

Qlik Sense has been launched on September 17th 2014 a few months after its free desktop application was released. Qlik Sense is built on the QIX Associative Data Indexing engine, the second generation of Qlik’s proven and patented engine technology. Associative data engine leaves data associations to Qlik Sense platform which frees users from IT stuff like writing queries or connecting filters and charts with each other. On top of this, Qlik Sense also offers a drag-and-drop application development environment which allows business users to develop their small to medium size BI applications without relying too much on it.

Below you can watch an introduction video.

Centralized QlikView Security Management Module - Click2Manage

QlikView is a fantastic business intelligence platform but it does have some limitations when it comes to security management. Although the application is quite secure (it is used in a lot of banks where security is extremely important) but setting up security is cumbersome. QlikView platform by default lacks a single, easy manageable and scalable security module. The built-in security framework is highly manual and script based to setup. Although it is manageable for 50-100 users, security management becomes a real burden for a few hundred to few thousand users. In addition to manageability issues, QlikView default security framework lacks the following:

Role based security setup assignment – Every users security configuration is done separately even a large group of users share the same security configuration where role based security assignment is crucial.

GUI based security configuration – Security configuration in QlikView is script based. Although QlikView Publisher (an add-on product to QlikView Server) offers somehow GUI based security setup, this is still not role based and the Publisher is an expensive addition to the QlikView platform.

Audit trail – Although almost all actions of users in QlikView are logged, security access configuration changes are not logged so there is no way to understand who changed what sort of security configuration

Layered security admin structure – QlikView’s security access manager, ADMIN, can do every changes about security. This prevents defining different levels of security admins to distribute the load of security configuration and creates significant security issues.

Encrypted security setup storage – QlikView does not provide an encrypted security setup storage.

Click2Manage

Click2Manage is a centralized QlikView Security Management Module developed by Singapore based Knowledge Management Solutions. Click2Manage still sits on the standard QlikView security access model in the background but provide a layer on it to overcome its limitations. Click2Manage deploys easy GUI based management interface to create and manage the SECURITY profile for QlikView Security setup. The module:

- Offers a web based GUI

- Stores security access matrix in secured, encrypted SQL database

- Deploys role based security to simplify security management

- Enables row level, field level, sheet level and application level security

- Interact with AD for user authentication and also supports Custom Created Users

- Provides audit logging

- Provides layered security management

Click2Manage offers a web based GUI and security setup features like role based security groups.

Benefits

Easy management of security for hundreds or thousands of users and profiles.Security setup with out of the box tools provided by QlikView server and publisher may be sufficient for 50-100 users, but it becomes labourous and unproductive for a few thousands of users. Click2Manage provides an easy to use, intiutive user interface and modules to overcome this problem.

Single point of QlikView security administration. Click2Manage provides a single point of QlikView security administration for all enterprise dashboards.

Secured Storage of QlikView security setup Click2Manage provides secured storage of QlikView security setup in an encrypted database and managed by a secured administrative environment for organization where IT policies mandate such setups.

Detailed audit reports for QlikView security setup updates Many organizations require strict audit reporting on the changes of QlikView security profile by security administrators. Click2Manage keeps track of all changes to security matrix across all dashboards and when requested produce detailed audit reports.

What is QlikView? QlikView Overview

QlikView is the world’s first associative, in-memory Business Discovery platform which delivers true self-service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision-making. QlikView enables business users to assemble data from multiple sources, explore it, make discoveries, and uncover insights that enable them to solve business problems in new ways. QlikView works the way the mind works. Users conduct searches and interact with dynamic dashboards and analytics from any device. They ask and answer streams of questions on their own and in groups and teams. They forge new paths to insight and decision.

QlikView is a single product that has multiple components for use by people in various roles: business users, business analysts / BI application developers, and IT professionals.

QlikView simplifies analysis for everyone. Qlik’s patented technology allows instant, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of sophisticated analytic applications in days.

Using QlikView organizations can gain business value quickly as they develop, modify, deploy, and – most importantly – use business intelligence applications. QlikTech is changing the game in business analysis, the new rules in business analysis are:

• Fast time to value – customers are live in less than 3 months, and most in 1-2 months.
• Risk free – available as a fully-functional free trial download
• Easy to use – end users require no training.
• Flexible – unlimited dimensions and measures that can be modified in seconds.
• Integrated – fully integrated business analysis suite – power analysis, sophisticated applications, and simple reporting on a single architecture.
• Powerful – near instant response time on massive data volumes. 

The QlikView Business Discovery Platform and its components

Qlikview Features and Functionality

One of the keys to QlikView’s success is its unique, award-winning in-memory associative technology. In-memory analysis and reporting means one-click access to visually rich, interactive dashboards anyone can build quickly and modify easily. It enables users to see and know their businesses in new ways and interactively explore data without limits. Now, users can engage their data with blazing speed, resulting in more informed, proactive decisions.

QlikView has consistently demonstrated how it maximizes the efficient use of available memory in advanced 64-bit, multi-core hardware, allowing thousands of users to access billions of data records. QlikView continues to be featured as a premier solution at Intel hardware launches to demonstrate the potential processing power of theirnew and more advanced memory architectures. This further confirms QlikView is an incredibly flexible and highly-scalable BI tool – one available at a fraction of the cost of traditional BI solutions

Patented QlikView In-Memory Associative Technology

QlikView manages associations among data sets at the engine level, not the application level. QlikView stores individual tables in its in-memory associative engine. Every data point in every field is associated with every other data point any where in the entire schema. Datasets can be hundreds of tables with thousands of fields. 

QlikView's associative model versus traditional model

Query-based BI tools separate the application layer from the data layer. This leads to long deployments while expensive developers customize the application layer to manage the specific associations required to answer a particular business question. When the BI application needs to answer a slightly different business question, the application layer must be altered again. This process is time-consuming and expensive. 

QlikView does not use queries.

Benefits of QlikView Associative In-Memory Architecture

In-Memory analysis and reporting drives simplicity and performance -  With an in-memory data model, QlikView allows data to be analyzed at both an aggregate and a detailed level without the time-consuming and costly step of building multidimensional OLAP cubes. In addition, associations between data are automatically mapped in QlikView and respond instantly to user selections. Since data is kept in -memory, the response time of any calculation is lightning fast, even on extremely large data sets analyzed by multiple concurrent users. 

Single architecture for dashboards, analysis and reporting -  QlikView is all about simplicity. It provides all t he features of traditional BI tools in a single architecture. QlikView has ETL functions to extract , transform and load data from one or several data sources (e.g., ERP, text, Excel, and XML). Development is also facilitated by function-rich wizards. QlikView is click-driven and provides state-of-the-art visualization capabilities using dashboard-style gauges, graphs and tables. With QlikView, users quickly find information at their fingertips. 

Visually Interactive User Interface

QlikView is quicker to deploy. - By incorporating all of these BI capabilities into a single architecture, QlikView meets the dashboard, analysis and reporting needs of every organizational user. This approach also makes QlikView extremely fast to deploy. This single solution and architecture approach also makes QlikView easy to upgrade and maintain, providing a low total cost of ownership.

Easy-to-learn, easy-to-use - QlikView’s color-coded, point-and click user interface makes it extremely intuitive and easy-to-learn for any user. Changes to QlikView applications are made in seconds, which makes it easy to respond quickly to the changing BI needs of an organization. 

QlikView Mobile Business Intelligence - Deploy once access anywhere (One QlikView many devices)

QlikView offers a true business discovery in a cross-platform, browser based interface. This means that applications can be built once and accessed on any device, whether it’s a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. By taking a ‘build once deploy anywhere’ approach, companies can reduce the burden associated with maintaining multiple versions of applications required by native clients for specific platforms. And users benefit from having a single, consistent QlikView experience across devices. 

QlikView on Mobile benefits from QlikView’s enterprise-proven server architecture. It gives organizations a unique combination of control at the center and flexibility at the edges. Because management and security are server capabilities in QlikView, the same access to applications and data entitlements apply regardless of the device used to access applications. And with a browser-based solution, there’s no dependency on third-party app stores or approval processes, reducing risk and keeping activity inside the firewall.

Benefits of QlikView’s Mobile Architecture

No additional cost - QlikView on Mobile is provided free as part of QlikView server, supporting the iPad, iPad 2 and other mobile devices with HTML 5-capable browsers.

Deploy once access anywhere - QlikView Delivers the same QlikView experience across desktop, laptop and mobile platforms. QlikView recognizes mobile browsers and enables touch functionality as needed. It offers access to a complete set of live data from multiple sources 

Secure and manageable -  QlikView on Mobile provides the security and manageability of QlikView server architecture

QlikView and Salesforce Seminar in Singapore on 25th April 2014

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView’s disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers.

QlikView is a great platform to develop business analytics application to provide Salesforce users with key-pipeline related data at their fingertips. A QlikView Salesforce Analytics application allows you to easily load and analyze all your CRM information directly from your salesforce.com account. With QlikView for Salesforce, information can be explored intuitively and visually – with drill-down detail in just a few clicks.

If you are in Singapore and a Salesforce user, do not miss this seminar on QlikView and Salesforce by Knowledge Management Solutions (KMS). KMS will perform a demo presentation which will cover the following topics:

- Drive higher levels of sales efficiency and effectiveness
- Measure pipeline trends across the entire sales cycle
- Analyze customers and prospects across multiple dimensions and data sources
- Plan and track more effective marketing campaigns and linked sales activities
- Increase demand generation, cross-sell and up-sell opportunities

Sample QlikView Salesforce Analytics Dashboard

Date: 25th April 2014     |      Time: 10 am to 1 pm
You can register here. Or email carlota@kms-world.com with your name, designation, company, official email, phone# for registration. 

QlikView Workshop: Build your first Business Intelligence Application in 1 day

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView’s disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers.

You are invited to join Knowledge Management Solutions Pte Ltd for a 1 day QlikView hands-on Training Session in Singapore. The hands-on approach allows you to build a QlikView application that integrates real data from several different sources and presents it in dashboards, analyses and reports.

QlikView Business Intelligence dashboards allow organizations to measure and track the performance of key processes.  QlikView’s click driven, visually interactive interface gives users instant access to top level metrics and record level detail, revealing unanticipated business insights.  Through QlikView disruptive, in-memory associative approach, business users have experiences unprecedented success and satisfaction.

You can register here. Or email carlota@kms-world.com with your name, designation, company, official email, phone# for registration.

Date:  
7th of February, 2014

Time:  
9 am to 6 pm (registration starts at 8:30 am)

Venue:  
55 Market Street #03-01Singapore 048941

Agenda:
1. Introduction to QlikView Business Intelligence
2. Create your Business Intelligence Application with QlikView
Tea Break
3. Data extraction from different sources
4. Data modeling
Lunch break
5. Design of graphs and charts
6. Build your advanced dashboard (Analytics and Reporting)

Notes: This is a paid training event at SGD300 (original price is SGD1,250).

KMS QlikView Service Packs in Singapore

QlikView is one of the most popular business intelligence solutions in the market. It is also highly popular here in Singapore where a QlikTech (the company developing the QlikView application) has a regional office and some 11 partners serving the customers.

Knowledge Management Solutions (KMS) is the largest partner of QlikView in Singapore. The company was in fact once QlikView South East Asia from 2004 (when they have brought QlikView in Singapore and became the 3rd office of QlikTech outside Europe after South Africa and Israel) to 2010 (when QlikTech came to Singapore and took the name back). KMS is still the largest QlikView partner in the region with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

KMS now offers irresistible service packages for QlikView to existing QlikView customers. Called Elite Service Pack and Lite Service Pack, the company opens its expertise on QlikView and business intelligence (one of the most in the world) as QlikView Server Monitoring, QlikView Enhancements, QlikView Training Services, Access To Knowledge Management Solutions Online Learning Management, QlikView Health Check, Special Offers & Rates plus Designated Account Management Team.

The Service Packs are very good solutions for companies with QlikView who need someone to develop more applications and do extra stuff related to QlikView. Instead of hiring someone with QlikView experience, which is difficult to find and expensive, they can for example buy Elite Service Pack which is priced at 5,000 SGD per month or 50,000 per year. The package comes with 50 man-days QlikView Enhancement feature which includes changes to existing QlikView applications, new QlikView application development, QlikView scripting, QliKView version migration, applying patches, etc.

For more information download QlikView Service Packs (PDF) brochure.

QlikView Service Packages in Singapore

Description of Features
QlikView Server Monitoring
Assist in-house IT Infra on QlikView
- Solving issues on QlikView Reload Jobs
- Solving QV application access issues by users
- Periodic Reports
- Alert any impact of OS related service/security patch upgrades on QlikView

QlikView Enhancements
- Changes to Existing Applications
- New Application Development
- QlikView Scripting
- QliKView Version Migration, Applying Patches, etc.

QlikView Training Services
ELITE
Conducted once every 2 months, 6 times/yr
1 trainee per session
1 training class type per session
LITE
Conducted once per quarter, 4 times/yr

5 trainees per session

Free Power-User Training
QV Server
QV Power User Training
QV Data Modeling Training

Access to KMS’ Online Learning Management
- Online courses and learning with LMS QV introductions, online courses, feature updates
- QV license maintenance must be

QlikView Health Check
- Perform review of QlikView applications used
- Emphasis to optimize QlikView functionality to enhance
reporting & analysisneeds of users
- KMS’ QlikView Application Expert to visit onsite
- Provides for 2 half-day sessions per year

Special Offers & Rates
Get special discount on KMS’ Add-on Tools ie.
- Click2Manage
- Click2Mail
Special discount on professional service manday rate. Valid for QlikView system under valid licence maintenance.

Designated Account Management Team
KMS will assign a designated team for QV Server Monitoring
Service and other value-added services.
- Account Manager
- Project Manager
- Technical System Consultant
Reports and Updates:
- Customer Update meetings in each quarter
- Status of monitoring activities
- Status of support activities
- Single-point-of-access/contact

Business Analytics Professional Short Courses

According to a recent survey conducted by IBM among 3,000 Chief Information Officers (CIO) around the globe, Business Analytics and Cloud Computing will be in the top 5 technology priorities for middle to large sized companies for the next 5 years. Business Analytics, with Singapore Government's focus on productivity increase and marketing afford of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics software solutions provider SAS, is a buzzword in Singapore recently. There is no week passing without a new development in the business analytics area.

Business Analytics can be defined as a practice of gaining business insight by exploring corporate data with the help of statistical tools. Business Analytics tools has a great potential to increase productivity in offices where high skilled, high paid employees spend a significant portion of their time to manually massage data using spreadsheets.

Below is from The Performance Ideas Blog:

"Business Analytics has a huge potential to help us increase productivity. And I would argue that there is plenty of ‘low-hanging’ fruit. Think about a story that happened to me a short while ago: A CFO decided to implement a dashboard of about 50-60 KPIs (let’s not start arguing about that part…). His team was excited and started building a 65 page Powerpoint master template. The CFO was delighted. Guess what – three people spent almost two weeks per month on preparing this dashboard. Lot’s of time was wasted on extracting data from different source systems. Lot’s of time was wasted on creating Excel lookups, queries and charts. To sum it up: A big waste of time. The low hanging-fruit came in the form of a traditional BI platform. We hooked up the source systems, created the reports once, linked different charts to Powerpoint and voila: the monthly reporting book. It took one person about a day per month to check & refresh the data (there was still some manual labor involved). Consider the difference: three people for 10 days vs 1 person for 1 day. 30 man days vs 1 man day. Not bad?"
Source: The great productivity leap?

Knowledge Management Solutions (KMS), the largest and the oldest QlikView expert partner in Singapore, is having detailed QlikView Courses where you can learn to use QlikView Business Discovery Platform to gain insight from massive and/or business data for making informed decision.

KMS offers different types of training courses in Singapore. Other than standard 5-days fully detailed QlikView Developer Courses , KMS also offers 2-days long QlikView Power User training courses as well as a 1-day introductory Build Your Own Business Intelligence Application in a Day.

You can mail them here : levent@kms-world.com