Learning Qlik Sense : The Official Guide

Learning Qlik Sense is for anyone seeking to understand and utilize the revolutionary new approach to business intelligence offered by Qlik Sense. Familiarity with the basics of business intelligence will be helpful when picking up this book, but not essential.

Christopher Ilacqua

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.

Henric Cronstrom

Dr. Henric Cronstrom 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

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.