On October 5th, the Qlik Academic Program organized a workshop for students of Sunway University, Malaysia. Qlik's customer Ikano Insights supported this event since they have an existing relationship with the University and they are encouraging students to learn from the academic program in view of potential internship and job opportunities at Ikano Insights for those trained in Qlik. In attendance was Mr ST Chua, Regional Director South East Asia at Ikano Insights who shared his thoughts on data analytics and the Qlik-Ikano relationship. Sunil Aman, Director Commercial Accounts, ASEAN, who manages the Ikano account at Qlik was also present and helped in answering queries of students.Qlik's technical expert and Senior Solution Architect, Edy Tan conducted this workshop and explained the features of Qlik Sense Business. He guided students on using the features of Qlik Sense during his 2.5 hour session. Students had the opportunity to build dashboards and visualise data and get a first hand feel of analysing data. Close to 50 students attended this workshop and it was a truly engaging experience for the audience.Apply to the program today,qlik.com/us/company/academic-program
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When preparing students for employment after their studies, it’s useful to use real life stories to help emphasize the importance of being ready for this data driven workplace.
Recently Qlik's CK Tan (Senior Director, Solutions and Value Engineering) posted an interesting article regarding Supply Chain Management and the effect that crises such as COVID 19 caused. Going forward, companies must adjust the way they have done business and ensure they are better prepared for a world in which supply chain is no longer a given.The article highlights several examples of large companies who faced supply chain issues all of which realized they needed to change the way they do business."These challenges are compelling supply chain executives to think differently. They have to act fast or risk slashing production, impacting sales and losing customers to competitors. After years of focusing on cost efficiencies or cost savings, 93% of supply chain executives now say they plan to increase the level of resilience across their supply chains."Read the full article heresupply chain cost to risk also, check out these demo examples of supply chain opportunities with Qlik SenseUniversity students studying supply chain management can take advantage of this shift by joining the@Anonymous #academicprogram for a year of Qlik Sense software, a subscription to the Qlik Learning Portal which includes analytics and data literacy training, certificate opportunities and more. Apply today by visitinghttps://www.qlik.com/us/company/academic-program
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ICT Academy in association with the industry partners, launched its fifth season of ‘LEARNATHON 2022’ - a self-learning initiative for higher education students to build their foundational IT skills online. Since 2018, through Learnathon, ICT Academy has inculcated self-learning among college students and benefitted many students.The 5th edition of Learnathon has been launched this year by ICT Academy in partnership with global tech majors such as Qlik. This initiative is exclusive to the member institutions of ICT Academy such as colleges and Universities across India.Learnathon 2022 will see participation from more than 600 colleges. Nine Industry partners including Qlik are participating in this initiative to offer their learning courses and academic programsThe Qlik Academic Program is associated with Learnathon for a second year in a row after a great response in 2021. Students have been very enthusiastic about the learning pathways offered under the academic program and they have actively pursued training for the Qlik Sense Business Analyst and Qlik Sense Data Architect pathways with many of them getting certified. This will add value to the future prospects of students given the fact that data analytics is one of the most sought after careers.To know more about the free data analytics resources of the Qlik Academic Program, visit: qlik.com/academicprogram
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Thank you very much to all the students and educators who take the time to respond to our Academic Program Survey. Your feedback is invaluable and helps us to understand the strengths of our program and the areas in which we can improve. We are very proud that for the most part we receive an overwhelmingly positive response, here are some of the recent survey results we have had in the EMEA region throughout 2022.
In an article in siliconrepublic.com ,KPMG’s Jitesh Goyal shares the traits and skills needed for an analytics career and gives his top tips for someone starting out.Jitesh Goyal leads the data and analytics strategy capability in the applied intelligence practice of KPMG Ireland.He has been working in the data and analytics domain for 16 years and has delivered solutions to complex problems across a number of sectors and geographies. His first job involved working with large datasets to derive business metrics for reporting.To read more about this interesting article and how one can explore a career in analytics, visit:https://www.siliconrepublic.com/people/data-analytics-career-skills-kpmgTo know more about you can start your analytics learning and get certified, if you are a student or educator, please visit: qlik.com/academicprogramArticle source: siliconrepublic.comImage source: educba.com
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If you are an educator trying to engage your students in the importance of data literacy, the key insights from our most recent report might be useful in communicating the necessity of data skills to your students.
Qlikwas recently named a Leader in theIDC MarketScape: U.S. Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment. What is MarketScape? IDC MarketScape is the IT industry’s premier vendor assessment tool, providing in-depth quantitative and qualitative technology market assessments.The report shares“Business intelligence and analytics software is one of the most visible pieces of the technology stack that enables data-driven or data-informed decision making and greater enterprise intelligence. While data warehouses, data lakes, lake houses, and various data integration and data intelligence software form the foundation of an organization's data and analytics technology architecture, it is BIA software that data analysts, business analysts, and others in the organization interact with daily.”Several of the reasons Qlik received its ranking are based on its end-to end platform, automation, data governance and sovereignty, and its extended Platform Value.For the full articlevisitAs someone who has been working with students and educators learning Qlik for more than 10 years, this report comes as no shock to me. For years we have seen interest from academia to learn Qlik because its such an important factor in the business world. It's amazing to hear their feedback. Don't take my word. Listen to what our members have to say. Paul De La Fuenta from Texas A&M was asked to describe his experience he answered " I love it! It was so great to use!" Or EducatorGabriel Olivares fromUniversidad Andrés Bello who explained that Qlik was "Very useful for the development of management control system classes, so students can learn by creating control panels and discovering the cause-effect relationships that exist between the data".University educators and students can learn more and apply today,https://www.qlik.com/us/company/academic-program
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