Cloud Market
Qlik Cloud
Cloud Competition
Hybrid Cloud
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What is Cloud Computing?
In Computer science, cloud computing describes a type of outsourcing of computer services, like the way in which electricity supply is outsourced. Users can simply use it. They do not need to worry where the electricity is from, how it is made, or transported. Every month, they pay for what they consumed. The idea behind cloud computing is similar: The user can simply use storage, computing power, or specially crafted development environments, without having to worry how these work internally. Cloud computing is usually Internet-based computing. The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet based on how the internet is described in computer network diagrams; which means it is an abstraction hiding the complex infrastructure of the internet. It is a style of computing in which IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service”, allowing users to access technology-enabled services from the Internet ("in the cloud") without knowledge of, or control over the technologies behind these servers.
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What is the customer target of each Qlik Sense Cloud offering?
Qlik Sense Cloud Basic is aimed at individuals who want to start working with Qlik Sense, it is limited in app and storage size and in the number of people with whom the apps can be shared. Qlik Sense Cloud Plus targets small workgroups, it provides decent app and storage size and does not limit the number of people with whom you can share apps. Qlik Sense Cloud Business is aimed at small organizations with multiple independent workgroups which should have private areas for each. It offers much more app and disk space than the other 2 offerings and the capability of scheduling data reloads.
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The company ABC is evaluating different cloud alternatives to deploy a new modern BI cloud option, after some meetings, we get the info that Tableau and Power BI are also being evaluated. Please mention at least 3 features that we should strongly point.
-Advanced data modelling / scripting -Associative model (green, grey and white) -Responsive -Performance -Data discovery and highly interaction
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What makes a cloud hybrid?
Per Wikipedia definition, Hybrid cloud is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community or public) that remain distinct entities but are bound together, offering the benefits of multiple deployment models. It could also refer to an implementation that has a mix of on premise and Cloud and infrastructure elements.
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What are the definition of SaaS and some example of application based on SaaS?
Software as a Service applications are designed for end-users and delivered via the internet without the need for downloads or installations. This service is sometimes referred to as "on-demand software” because it is consumed off-premise with a subscription pay model. It manages software, file storage, email, and other collaboration tools, as well as CRM data. Google Apps, Salesforce, Workday, Concur, WebEx, and Qlik Sense Cloud are all examples of Software as a Service.
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Can I connect Qlik Sense Cloud to my Salesforce? What do I need?
Qlik Sense Cloud provides the Salesforce connector. It is available only in the Qlik Sense Cloud Business offering.
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The company ABC is a process of acquisition for a new data discovery tool, it is a must for them that solution must be cloud based. Other topics we know: They have on premise ODBC data sources with high volume of data (apps more than 200mb). They have business data user on excel files and other formats. Now you need to have a conversation with customer and expose your best deploy option (premise, cloud, hybrid)?
In this case, we should be positioning Qlik Sense Enterprise in the cloud (AWS, Azure or other partners) due to: -more than 50 users which is the supported scenario for Qlik Sense Cloud Business. -ODBC connectivity is not supported in our current Qlik Sense Cloud Business.
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How does Qlik Strategy fits with the hybrid approach?
Serving a broader set of market requirements and customer needs by allowing implementations to easily blend across these two pillars: 1. Qlik Sense Enterprise 2. Qlik Sense Cloud
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What are the main area of cloud and what are relevant for us?
The three main are for cloud are: Software as a Service (SaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from various client devices through either a thin client interface, such as a web browser (e.g., web-based email), or a program interface. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, except for limited user-specific application configuration settings. In this case, customer does not need to manage any technical aspect like infrastructure or application deployment. With this approach, our customer, just need to use the Qlik platform without any extra effort in term of configuration or maintenance. Platform as a Service (PaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly configuration settings for the application-hosting environment. In this case, customer can deploy our Qlik solution in a partner environment (i.e. AWS or Azure) that can manage the more technical and infrastructure aspect but our customer can choose how to deploy Qlik and manage application configuration. With this approach, our customer does not need to buy the hardware infrastructure and does not need to manage it. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): The capability provided to the consumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer can deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage, and deployed applications; and possibly limited control of select networking components (e.g., host firewalls). In this case, customer can deploy our Qlik solution in a partner environment (i.e. AWS or Azure) that can manage the more technical and infrastructure aspect but our customer can choose how to deploy Qlik and change some infrastructure configuration. With this approach, our customer does not need to buy the hardware infrastructure. As mentioned, we at Qlik are most interested in the SaaS model so it is important when discussing it or Qlik Sense Cloud that we know precisely what it is. Simply stated, SaaS is “a software delivery model in which software is consumed off premise and with a subscription pay model. It is sometimes referred to as "on-demand software.” SaaS is typically accessed by users using a web browser.”
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What is the current Qlik Cloud portfolio?
Qlik in the Cloud, the option of deploying Qlik software (e.g., Qlik Sense Enterprise) in the cloud. Qlik Sense Cloud, the SaaS version of the market leading visualization and analysis tool. Qlik Market, a marketplace where Qlik partners can commercialize their own developments on Qlik Sense. Qlik Data Market, our Data-as-a-Service platform which will enable customers to enrich their analyses with high quality curated datasets, like for example weather, currency exchange or demographics. More detailed answer: Qlik software is fully cloud ready. For years, our customers have been choosing to deploy the Qlik software they own in the cloud. We call this approach “Qlik in the Cloud”. It offers most of the benefits of cloud deployments with full choice. The infrastructure is cloud based so you get all the flexibility and scalability of a cloud solution plus you can choose if the deployment and administration is performed in house or as a managed service. Qlik Sense Cloud is the SaaS version of Qlik Sense. It enables users to create, edit, share, and interact with Qlik Sense apps to reveal connections and discover opportunities. Qlik Sense Cloud users can invite others to do the same by sharing applications with anyone in their business or network. With multiple editions available (Qlik Sense Cloud Basic, Plus, and Business) – including a free version (Qlik Sense Basic)– you can quickly begin getting value out of Qlik Sense. As a fully SaaS offering there is nothing to install or update – the entire Qlik Sense experience is completely online and optimized for any device. Qlik Sense Cloud is globally deployed on Amazon Web Services. With Qlik Market, you can use the find solution from our partners, such as apps, extensions, add-ons and connectors. With it, you will be able to customize your Qlik experience specific to your requirements. Finally, Qlik Data Market is our data as a service offering. You can subscribe to a wide range of curated data from known sources. The data is always up-to-date and ready, enabling you to gain new insights into your business by enriching the context of their internal data and having an outward-facing data view approach.
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The company ABC is in a process of acquisition of a new data discovery tool, it is a must for them that the solution is cloud based. The requirements are the followings: -25 users -users need to analyse CRM info and they have salesforce -there is additional data (file based) that is prepared by some users and need to be also analysed -they also analyse info coming from google analytics regarding visits of their e-commerce Which is the best suitable deployment?
Qlik Sense Cloud Business is our best option that makes possible to manage business environments in a multitenant deployment giving to the user the possibility to mix salesforce info with any web connector by using rest, it also empowers users to shared departmental data (file based). Competition has many problems on blending data and making complex analysis empowering users to have the possibility to work in a multitenant environment.
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Which are the benefits the hybrid cloud brings?
1. Improve Time to Market: relying into common service delivered on public cloud instead to rebuild them 2. Mitigate risks (securing systems): Sitting sensible data on premise or on private cloud and leveraging on public service to 3. Cut costs: Similarly, to point (1) relying on standards, ready to production, public service not only improve the TTM but allow also to cut costs. 4. Scalability: Customers can retain sensible data on premise and scaling-out on public cloud for massive data calculation.
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What are the benefit of Cloud Computing?
We can summarize on 9 point the real benefit of Cloud Computing approaches • Scalability & Elasticity: When a company needs more resource or computing power a CLOUD BASED service can easily scale to meet demand without additional hardware or infrastructure • Agility: Agility is the power to change, quickly, to MEET CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES. Cloud computing facilitates and supports corporate agility like no other computing model. • Accessibility: Cloud technologies are AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE. It is possible that IT may not even be involved because the use of a cloud tends to transfer responsibilities to other vendors. • Environmentally Friendly: Using a cloud results in at least 30% LESS ENERGY consumption and carbon emissions than using on-site servers. Companies can achieve up to a 90% cut in energy use and carbon emissions. • Innovation Platform: With enhanced time to value, the cloud is increasingly used as a PLATFORM FOR INNOVATION AND CHANGE. A cloud facilitates faster release cycles and has accelerated DevOps. • Disaster Recovery: Aberdeen Group found that businesses that used a cloud were able to RESOLVE ISSUES in an average of 2.1 hours, nearly four times faster than businesses that didn’t use a cloud. Recovery Time Objectives are also significantly lower. • Subscription Model: Benefits include higher CASH FLOW because businesses do not have to spend money on infrastructure and other on premise spending. The subscription service is typically PAY-AS-YOU-GO, which minimizes the need for capital expenditure. • Time to Value: There are SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS in bringing applications live. Time to market, launch, and time to value are significant with cloud computing because the underlying infrastructure is being managed by someone else. • Software Updates: Cloud Computing vendors handle all server maintenance and security updates, FREEING UP customers’ time and resources.
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Is there multi-tenancy available in Qlik Sense Cloud? What do I need?
Qlik Sense Cloud Business offers partial multi-tenancy capabilities, by being able to segregate different business areas into Qlik Sense workgroups, each one with its own user management, development area, and streams, thus providing admins with flexibility to adapt Qlik Sense Cloud Business to their organizational structure and requirements.
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Company ABC is looking at some tools to reduce the TCO of their solutions, they have no more than 30 users in mind to use the data discovery tool but they are afraid about the hide cost or interdependencies of other third party products and for them it is also very important the collaboration of business users without a big set up effort. What is the message you should deliver to the customer and witch kind of deployment is the most suitable?
Microsoft Power BI is a cloud service that mainly addresses simple data visualization use cases while Qlik offers a broad and deep enterprise-ready visual analytics platform for all visual analytics needs, including a superior self-service data visualization and discovery solution, providing more value for customers, at a lower TCO over time. We have several plus compared to Microsoft: Architecture, Data and, moreover, the Associative Experience. All of those point grant Qlik a recognized far lower TCO. Qlik has a self-contained architecture and can be seamlessly integrated within existing environments, including the Microsoft stack. Power BI has dependencies with the Microsoft stack which may require the upgrade of existing components (SQL Server 2016, Reporting Services 2016, Analysis Services Enterprise Edition). Qlik can be easily deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Power BI is a cloud service that requires additional software (Pyramid Analytics or SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services) to be deployed on-premises. Qlik can connect and blend all types of data within the same visualization while leaving the data where they reside. Power BI has a good data connectivity but a visualization only contains data from a single data source, which may force customers to consolidate data in one place when they have more than one data source. Qlik has various techniques to work with large volume of data and can work with many data sources. While Power BI can query live large on-premises data sources, customers must blend the data with Power BI Desktop and upload the resulted dataset in the cloud service when there is more than one data source. The limitation of 1GB per file reduces the amount of data customers can analyse. Qlik offers a unique user experience that lets users see the whole story that lives within their data, while offering a rich and consistent mobile experience across devices. Power BI’s user experience is filter-heavy, gives users a partial view of their data and offers an inferior mobile experience. Qlik offers better and faster time to insight thanks to advanced visualization techniques (smart visualizations, smart compression, etc.) that are unique in the market and absent in other solutions like Power BI.
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What is the Qlik long term plan for the Hybrid Approach?
• Qlik implementations could span multiple environments, more than one cloud infrastructure, and support more than one Qlik product. • End users can consume Qlik content and server resources across multiple infrastructures and devices • Multiple environments are connected but independently sustainable • As Qlik hybrid architecture evolves, customers will have a greater set of options (dials, as opposed to buttons) regarding data, compute, end user consumption.
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Per the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Hybrid Cloud definition” [..] two or more distinct cloud infrastructures (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities, but are bound together […] that enables data and application portability” Even before the Qlik Hybrid solution come out, and despite the Product Managements' willing, Qlik Products already take advantage of hybrid cloud solution. Could you list at least one case of use?
• All the geo-localization service relies on a MAP server (Google MAP, ESRI, IDEVIO) hosted on a different cloud (usually public, but can also be private or 3rd party) giving a single service to the final user • The integration with the R or Python for instance work in the same way • The Telegram Bot take advantage of different services and frameworks spread across different clouds: • Can use a common Framework for different BOT (Microsoft Framework) o BOT Framework leans on specific chat API (e.g. Telegram, Skype, Slack, etc.) • They can use Cognitive and Language detection service provided for instance by Google, IBM, Microsoft or Open Source solution o Can use some a voice recognition service • and so on …. • Any extension Object which rely on external services (e.g.. Narrative)
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