Qlik Technologies

Loops offers IFS customers a deeper layer of analysis and action in order to make more effective, informed decisions.

In other news, Qlik announced it has achieved the AWS data competency in the relational database category, recognizing Qlik's demonstrated expertise delivering unified data architectures on Amazon Web Services, AWS, helping organizations build the data foundation that power modern analytics and AI workloads.

With this, customers will be able to work across data environments, modernize without disruption, create trusted analytics-ready data, and maintain flexibility.

Qlik customers will benefit from increased reliability, leveraging Qlik solutions within the AWS architecture.

Finally, UKG announced the addition of Cash App to the UKG Frontline Worker Network, expanding the curated ecosystem of partners that connects frontline workers with benefits and support directly in the flow of their UKG work, pay, and collaboration experience.

Since launching the network in 2025, UKG has focused its expansion on critical moments in the frontline worker journey, including between paydays, on payday, and at tax time.

I was involved, uh, 2012, around that time, with, uh, the BI Boulder, a Boulder BI brain trust, uh, around Claudio Imhoff.

And it was cool, we had vendors coming in and a lot of especially the, the ETL vendors, uh, uh, that said, "You don't need to model, we do the modeling for you." Or, uh, a tool like Qlik said, "You don't need to model, we do the modeling for you." And it always comes up with, yeah, we're looking at a source system and basically restructure a source into something which is actually the same, but then in a different way.

Which is not reflecting to the business in any way, especially not over multiple systems integration.

So our approach has always been, and my approach has always been, looking from a different perspective.

I was optional on this one.

So Qlik, it's an analytics and data integration company, and they have built something called Qlik Answers, which are their enterprise assistant designed to answer business questions, et cetera.

And they have multiple specialized components, which they highlight in this article here.

So there's a routing layer, which direct questions to document search.

What do you think, Kevin?

Well, I agree.

Optional as a former Qlik marketer years ago.

I clawed them for the marketing coup to get it in there, but I think it's optional.

This is the Electi review.

Today, Qlik Sense versus Power BI and why the feature race is the wrong race.

The article's argument is blunt.

This is not a choice about charts.

The facts on scale.

Microsoft said over 500,000 unique users from 45,000 companies joined Power BI's six-month preview before launch and later reported more than 375,000 organizations and about 30 million monthly active users by 2025.

Qlik cites more than 30,000 customers.

Scale decides who you can hire and who covers for your single analyst when they leave.

Distressed leverage loans, or those trading at or below $0.80 on the dollar, are also on the rise, totaling $139.8 billion, a nearly 90% jump over the past 12 months, and just $4 billion shy of the high in May of 2020, strategists including Nelson Janssen wrote in a report.

There are now about 141 leveraged loan issuers trading below $0.80 on the dollar, 35 more than a year earlier, with names including software providers CDK Global, Qlik Technologies, and Quest Software among the biggest contributors.

On the high-yield bond side of distress, spreads on debt-rated CCC or junk debt have jumped above 1,000 basis points, the highest since the 2023 regional banking crisis when investors dumped risky debt.

Yields on CCC bonds have climbed 15.58%, the highest since November of 2022.

But you couldn't integrate them into existing groups and channels.

So now, Qlik lets you add those guest users to organization channels so that they can just hop into whatever the same conversation area is for all of your other employees.

So, yeah, just a way to make that a little bit more flexible.

They talk about, you know, some of the different scenarios where you would add guest users, right? You know, it's frequent contractors or freelancers, maybe an outside agency partner or a vendor, right? Now, they do want to talk about a little bit of a difference between guest users versus networks.