Christopher Ilacqua - Learning Qlik® Sense: The Official Guide

Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is the Research Director, Product Validation at Qlik. He has been working with leading customers and partners in the U.S. for more than 3 years garnering feedback on Qlik Sense. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the field of planning and business intelligence, and he has established himself as a leading expert by advising, designing, and implementing hundreds of planning and business intelligence applications. He has a Doctorate in Business Administration, a Master's degree in Business Administration in Accounting, and a Bachelor's degree in Marketing. His research interests focus on big data, data governance, mobile BI, SaaS, business collaboration, and cloud-based solutions. Additionally, Chris serves as an adjunct professor at New England College of Business, where he teaches graduate students Strategic Leadership, Marketing, Operations Management, and MIS.

Dr. Henric Cronstrm is Vice President Product and Technical Product Advocate at Qlik, where he has worked for most of the time since the company was founded. At Qlik, Henric has had several different roles. For the first few years in Qlik's history, he was the Product Manager for QlikView, and then he moved into solution implementation and training. After many years in the field, including a role as a manager for the technical staff in QlikTech, Germany, he returned to Sweden as Deputy Manager for the development organization. In his current role, his main task is the communication of technical products, on blogs, in the press, and directly with large accounts.

Henric has a Doctorate in Elementary Particle Physics from Lund University.

James Richardson is Business Analytics Strategist at Qlik. Prior to joining Qlik, James spent 6 years as a Gartner analyst covering business intelligence and analytics. During his tenure, along with advising hundreds of organizations on BI topics, James was the lead author of the Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms report and was the chairperson and keynote speaker for Gartner's European BI summit. Before Gartner, James spent 13 years at BI and performance management software vendor IMRS/Arbor/Hyperion in various roles. Prior to that, James worked for Sema Group developing software for industrial control systems (SCADA), and as an advertising copywriter.

Acknowledgments

As with any project of this size, there are a number of people who helped support this book. First of all, we would like to thank Anthony Deighton and Donald Farmer for their vision of Qlik Sense and their executive support for this project. Additionally, we would like to thank Arthur Lee and the Product Management team at Qlik who supported the technical review of this book.

We would also like to thank all the Qlik employees that joined us over the last 3 years at customer sites to help solicit feedback on Qlik Sense. These people include Jodi Antoni, Pierce Barber, Adrian Bereanu, Chris Brennan, Sean Donovan, Jeff DeAngelis, Dan English, Vinay Kapoor, Terry Kavouras, Mark Latessa, Arthur Lee, Erik Lvquist, Kevin Schulz, and Elif Tutuk. Thank you for sharing your time, knowledge of Qlik products, and customers. This book could not have been written without the hundreds of hours of conversations with customers and partners.

The last four chapters of this book are based on the hard work of the Qlik Demo team. These applications and new approaches to solve these business problems were created by Michael Anthony, Chuck Bannon, Alexander Karlsson, Jennell McIntire, Apeksha Patak, and Arturo Muoz. Thank you for allowing us to bring life to your applications in this book.

Additionally, we wish to thank the Qlik legal team of Deborah Lofton, Alice Hume, and Heather Rossman for creating the legal framework that allowed us to explore Qlik Sense concepts with customers and partners. Also, we wish to thank the Social Influence and Reputation Management team of Maria Scurry and Toni Iafrate for their support and helping get the word out both internally and externally on the value of this project.

Finally and most importantly, we would also like to thank the companies who have contributed their time, resources, feedback, and passion for Qlik products for more than 3 years, which helped uncover the value of Qlik Sense in their organizations.

About the Reviewer

Arthur Lee has been Vice President of Product Management at Qlik since June 2014. He has had various Qlik product management roles since joining Qlik in 2010. He is responsible for the Product Management function at Qlik. He has served as a business unit executive at IBM's Business Analytics business unit as a product manager among a variety of other product marketing roles at IBM Cognos TM1 from October 2004 to January 2010. Prior to IBM, he had several financial and consulting roles within banks, retail, and software companies.

Arthur holds a BA in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, Massachusetts.

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