Wolfgang Kobek

Liebe Leserinnen und liebe Leser, im Rahmen unserer Competence Site möchten wir Ihnen kompetenzführende Experten und Organisationen aus Forschung und Praxis vorstellen. In diesem Interview sprechen wir mit Wolfgang Kobek, Geschäftsführer für QlikTech in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Wolfgang Kobek verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung in der...

QlikView ist eine neue Art von Business Intelligence Software, die die Geschäftswelt verändert. Mit QlikView müssen Sie nicht mehr raten, sondern Sie wissen endlich, wie man schnellere, klügere Entscheidungen treffen kann.

In a great example of how we at QlikTech apply the use of QlikView to our jobs every day, I wanted to share this story, which may affect those of you who have sales apps. Our director of inside sales Troy Anderson put in place a targeted set of sales campaigns and our marketing operations team set up those campaigns in Salesforce.com. In “the olden days,” each sales rep on...

In December, 2011 InformationWeek published a report called “Outlook 2012” (free to registered users). The report is based on an online survey of 605 business technology professionals (most in IT) in North America conducted in October, 2011. The purpose of the survey was to gauge IT spending, staffing plans, and strategies for 2012.

“Cloud” and ”SaaS” (software as a service) are two terms often bundled together and used to describe the same thing. The way we at QlikTech use the term 'cloud' is to refer to the use of off-premise, often distributed, computing environments for the purpose of running applications and managing, storing, and analyzing data. We use the term 'SaaS' to refer to a specific...

We are seeing lots of interest in and hype around the topic of “big data” because data volumes are on the rise and strategic thinkers across industries are looking for opportunities to maximize its value. According to McKinsey Global Institute and others, the term 'big data' refers to data sets whose size is beyond the ability of typical database software tools to capture, manage,...

Green lights were flashing all over the place (in my mind) as I read the researchers’ description of the Collaborative path to transformation, in the research report, “Analytics: The Widening Divide,” published by quarterly journal MIT Sloan Management Review in collaboration with the IBM Institute for Business Value. (See related QlikView blog post, “Are You...