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Qlik and Talend Provide a best-in-class approach to managing data for Snowflake’s Data Cloud.

At Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023, Qlik announced a significant expansion to its platform that will greatly benefit Snowflake customers. Following Qlik’s acquisition of Talend and the launch of Qlik Cloud data transformation services Qlik has significantly expanded its platform to deliver a comprehensive best-in-class approach to accessing, transforming and delivering trusted quality data for analysis and action into Snowflake’s Data Cloud.

“As customers scale with Snowflake, they want to streamline the process of getting analytics-ready and trusted data. Qlik Cloud Data Integration’s new Data Transformation Services makes it easier to leverage push-down SQL and deliver valuable data that’s ready for immediate use. And with Talend’s leading quality and governance solutions, customers can further ensure they have trusted data to create a true end-to-end data integration and analytics strategy with Snowflake.”

Itamar Ankorion, SVP, Global Partners and Alliances at Qlik

With an increasing number of data sources, data fragmentation can be a serious roadblock. To maintain your agility and maximise the value of your data you need a cost-effective solution to continuously organise, transform, and deliver real-time data through the cloud. Qlik’s data integration and analytics solutions have been combined with Talend’s hybrid-cloud approach to data connectivity and data quality. Together they offer a unique end-to-end portfolio of solutions so that Snowflake customers can find, transform, trust, and analyse their data at scale.

Qlik and Talend for Snowflake Data Integration

Snowflake customers need hassle-free and cost-effective solutions to both rapidly ingest and transform the data they land in Snowflake. Qlik’s Connector Factory will expand access and delivery of data with the initial delivery of connectors to the 20 most popular enterprise applications. These include NetSuite, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Salesforce, Cerner, OSIsoft, SAP Ariba, and HubSpot.

Qlik’s recently launched Data Transformation Services through Qlik Cloud Data Integration enables customers to transform ingested data directly in Snowflake and maintain history as part of broader transformation capabilities. And Qlik’s recent acquisition of Elite Snowflake Partner Talend, including Stitch and its 150+ connectors, gives customers increased flexibility and choice in how they can leverage Qlik solutions to drive more data to Snowflake.

Snowflake Data Quality and Governance

To drive automation, analytics, and generative AI use cases, increasing trust in data is essential. Talend’s Native Trust Score^TM and data quality rules are computed inside Snowflake, leveraging Snowpark User Defined Functions (UDFs) to push down for faster and more efficient processing. In addition, Talend’s data profiler, powered by machine learning, does a semantic analysis of the data, builds the metadata associated with the data, and checks for many different aspects of the data such as validity, completeness and uniqueness. Utilising Talend in Snowflake UDF and Snowpark natively, customers will receive healthier data, faster and with ease.

Qlik and Talend for Snowflake Trusted Data for Any Use Case

Trusted data is critical across every industry, from manufacturing to supply chain and finance. Between Qlik and Talend there are a wide range of customers already leveraging solutions with Snowflake, including customers like ABB, Siemens and HARMAN. Also, Qlik recently took part in the launch of Snowflake’s Manufacturing Data Cloud, bringing unique SAP-related expertise and accelerators to help manufacturers unlock the value of their critical data and collaborate with their partners, suppliers and customers in a secure and scalable way.

“Customers looking to modernize their data at scale have increasing needs for cost effective ways to efficiently transform, manage and govern their data in the cloud. Qlik’s existing and new solutions, along with their newly acquired Talend capabilities, will help customers more easily manage their data transformation needs and increase the value of their data in Snowflake.”

Tarik Dwiek, Head of Technology Alliances at Snowflake

Differentia Consulting recognised as a Qlik Elite Solution Provider in 2023 for the thirteenth time.

Differentia Consulting is delighted to have been recognised by Qlik as a Qlik Elite Solution Provider for the thirteenth time. Our continued success as a Qlik Elite Solution Provider is built on our commitment and dedication to customer service, and ongoing investment in our valued employees, associates, and partners. This includes working with Qlik to position its offerings as they become available and change. As a result, this elite status includes our first capacity pricing deals for QDI and QDA. 

“Differentia Consulting continuously focuses on our clients’ success, 2022 and now 2023 brought a whole new set of operational challenges. Challenges that we are very pleased to have managed to address while discovering a new way of working with our clients. As analytics continue to rapidly evolve, our objective is to work with our clients to adopt a new integrated path for data integration and analytics with Qlik.

Working more strategically with clients has required a lot of dedication and understanding of their needs, and the value they can expect from Qlik products. The continued changes of Qlik’s go-to-market to enable global enterprises to compete requires dedicated teams from Differentia Consulting and Qlik to work together. Our customer day on the 21st of November 2023 will be focused on explaining the data roadmap options available to all our clients for 2024 and beyond.”

Adrian Parker, VP Strategy and Operations, Differentia Consulting

“I am pleased to announce that Qlik Partner, Differentia Consulting, has achieved Qlik Elite Solution Provider status for the 13th time. Given the challenges that 2022/23 brought us, this is a credit to the Differentia Consulting team for their hard work and commitment, ensuring Qlik customers continue to receive the advice and guidance needed to thrive. Differentia Consulting has helped customers understand Qlik’s go-to-market offerings, and Qlik’s new capacity pricing models so that they can continue to have world-class data pipelines and analytics capabilities to deliver competitive advantage.”

Lucia Burns, Partner Account Manager UKI, Qlik

As we head into 2023/24, Differentia Consulting is dedicated to maintaining our high standards and continuing to make the difference with:

• Qlik Managed Services – a dedicated on-shore Qlik Managed Services team available to support and deliver your Qlik projects, and Qlik training, in a timely manner as well as to robust standards.
• Smarter.BI applications powered by Qlik – templates for technologies such as JD Edwards and functional areas such as Finance, Supply Chain, PMO and WFM/HCM/HR.
• #DataLiteracy – we recognise that data literacy; the ability to: “read, work with, analyse, and argue with data.” is an essential tool for employees across the whole of a business.

Networking Opportunities

Differentia Consulting strives to encourage a supportive Qlik Community where we can share and support one another. Whether this is via events or direct introductions, please contact us to learn more.

Join us in Reading on the 21st November 2023 for our Qlik Customer Day. This is the perfect opportunity for us to help you decide on your Qlik data integration, Qlik data analytics strategy, and roadmap for 2024 and beyond.

Cyferd’s Neural Genesis builds solutions in seconds

Differentia Consulting’s partner, Cyferd, announced the launch of its innovative Artificial Intelligence software; Neural Genesis. With Neural Genesis a user can build a solution in seconds on the Cyferd Platform just by typing a few words.

Unlike other AI software designed to write content and solve equations, Neural Genesis builds integrated data solutions to help businesses streamline their operations and stay ahead of the competition. Input a few words, and Neural Genesis generates a solution in seconds, that can be implemented enterprise-wide within minutes.

The Cyferd Platform leverages the latest algorithms and machine-learning techniques to deliver advanced business tools designed to support your organisation in transforming its operations.

Increase efficiency and accuracy, improve scalability, and reduce costs

• Increase efficiency: AI automates the tasks involved in software development, reducing the time and effort required to build and deploy applications.
• Improve accuracy: Using the software to automate certain tasks reduces the risk of human error, leading to increased accuracy in app-development.
• Better scalability: AI can easily handle the increasing complexity and scale of modern software systems, making it easier to build and maintain large, complex applications.
• Reduce cost: Automating solution building with AI reduces the cost of software development by diminishing the need for engineers.

Who can benefit from Cyferd Neural Genesis?

The unveiling of Cyferd Neural Genesis (#CyferdNG) will impact all sectors ranging from education, healthcare, to media and can instantly improve efficiency and productivity by generating sector-specific operational platforms instantly. This is set to transform not only the tech industry but all industries, leveraging cutting-edge algorithms and machine-learning techniques to deliver a platform of advanced business tools that can help firms improve their operations and stay ahead of the competition.

“AI is no longer just a buzzword in the technology industry, it’s a game changer. We are beyond excited to launch Neural Genesis. AI has the potential to radically change the way businesses operate, Neural Genesis is at the forefront bringing that potential into reality for all organisations across any sector.”

Ranjit Bahia, CEO at Cyferd

Today is unlike any other day. There is a new AI tool in town, not a gimmick but one that can offer your organisation true independence and agility when it comes to your applications.

Imagine that you need a new #ERP, #CRM, #assetmanagement, #hr #student or other application now. With Cyferd‘s Neural Genesis A.I. powered platform you can create one in seconds…. with just a few words. It is as easy as that.

Adrian Parker, EVP Operations & Strategy at Differentia Consulting

Qlik Capacity Pricing for data integration and analytics 

Qlik is pleased to announce its new Qlik Capacity Pricing model for Qlik Data Analytics (QDA). The new pricing model is an extension of the capacity functionality introduced earlier this year for Qlik Data Integration (QDI). 

How does Qlik’s capacity pricing make a difference?

Qlik believes this pricing model aligns with modern customer expectations and will:   Provide more predictability when planning deployments,  make it easier to take advantage of available capabilities in Qlik Cloud,  give more flexibility to organisations wanting to expand analytics usage.

Today, Qlik offers three capacity pricing tiers: Standard, Premium, and Enterprise.  Additional details can be found on Qlik’s website: Qlik Cloud® Analytics Plans & Pricing. 

With the Qlik Cloud capacity model, the primary value meter is Data for Analysis or Data Moved, except for Qlik Cloud Analytics Standard where Full Users is the value meter. 

Additionally, Qlik understands the importance of Qlik Cloud administrators’ ability to monitor their tenants’ data consumption. Therefore, Qlik has introduced:  A monitoring dashboard Located in the home pane of the Management Console, this overview provides a summary of user allocations, data capacity consumption, reports, and other capacity-based resources to understand your usage.   A specialised Qlik Sense Application For more in-depth analysis, a detailed consumption report is delivered in a Qlik Sense Application allowing you to further understand how your organization uses Qlik Cloud.

For more information on how to deploy the report, please contact Differentia Support or see Qlik Help for details: Monitoring usage with detailed consumption reports. Additional resources: Capacity Pricing and Usage Telemetry in Qlik Cloud available Qlik Cloud® Analytics Plans & Pricing Qlik Cloud Analytics specifications and capacity Subscription value meters Monitoring resource consumption Monitoring usage with detailed consumption reports

Differentia Consulting on Qlik’s Capacity pricing options

Qlik has now shared its capacity pricing models, which will become a major talking point at our Qlik customer day in November. Strategically we now have more options to configure pricing for Qlik solutions that are value centric. Significantly we can now compare directly with the costs of serving competitor products to Qlik. As the details unfold we believe that our clients will see far improved ROI adopting Qlik than previously possible “

Adrian Parker, EVP Operations and Strategy at Differentia Consulting

Qlik Cloud Support for Amazon Redshift Unlocks SAP and other Enterprise Data Sources for Cloud Data Analytics

Qlik has announced support for its newly launched Amazon Redshift Serverless cloud data warehouse with integrations to both Qlik Sense® cloud analytics and Qlik Data Integration. This development is particularly significant as it means Qlik Cloud can now communicate with any of the big four platforms (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Snowflake).

As organisations look to activate key enterprise data sources such as SAP and Mainframe for cloud analytics at scale across the business, customers know they can leverage Qlik’s solutions alongside Amazon Redshift Serverless to deliver relevant and timely data to business users when it matters most for decision making.

“Qlik has a long history of supporting Amazon Redshift customers since its debut ten years ago.

Combining Amazon Redshift Serverless with Qlik Data Integration ensures joint customers have the relevant and timely data they need from key sources like SAP and Mainframe for analysis on-demand through the cloud, while also benefiting from the ability to scale analytics through the cloud with Qlik Sense to any team across the organization when they are making decisions.”

Itamar Ankorion, SVP Technology Alliances at Qlik

The support for Amazon Redshift Serverless is the latest milestone in Qlik’s continued work with AWS centered around maximising the value of enterprise data for cloud analytics. Last year, Qlik launched a collaborative solution with AWS to help enterprises drive more value from their SAP data by leveraging Qlik Data Integration to deliver real-time, analytics-ready data from their SAP systems into AWS. This solution leverages Qlik’s deep expertise in accessing and transforming SAP data for analysis, using best in class cloud data warehousing, data lakes and machine learning initiatives.

“Customers love Amazon Redshift’s best-in-class price performance and rich SQL feature set including new capabilities such as semi-structured data, machine learning, and data sharing. As data volumes and the needs to get insights from data increase, customers want to make Redshift even more widely available to users in their organizations who aren’t data warehouse experts.

With Redshift Serverless, customers get everything they love about Redshift together with ease of operations. The simplicity and automated scaling capabilities along with the pay-as-you-go model makes Amazon Redshift easier and more cost-effective choice for these dynamic business environments.”

Yan Leshinsky VP Amazon Redshift

About Qlik

Differentia Consulting strives to encourage a supportive Qlik Community where we can share and support one another. Whether this is via events or direct introductions, please contact us to learn more.

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In addition, there are some LinkedIn groups that we suggest you subscribe to;

Qlik Application Platform Global User Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/72977/
Qlik Application Platform UK User Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1882895/
Qlik and SAP – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1891998/
#CyberHygiene – https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cyberhygiene/

Recommended Qlik Community Feeds

Qlik has consolidated much of its information, including self-service support information to the https://community.qlik.com site and we’d recommend that you subscribe to some of their feeds – in particular the Support Updates Blog. Finally please also have a look at qlik.dev – the Developer Portal for Qlik SaaS.

Qlik & Team Qhubeka Focus on Performance and Social Impact

Partnership Combines Mutual Focus on Bringing Data Together for Performance and Social Impact

Qlik^® has become the official Analytics Partner of Team Qhubeka professional cycling team for the 2023 race season. With Qlik, Team Qhubeka will expand its long-term strategy of using data and analytics to optimize the logistics, planning and performance of every aspect of its mission-driven cycling team.

Team Qhubeka has a clear mission of fostering ambition, creating opportunities, and changing lives with bicycles. The team is also one of the most technologically enabled cycling teams in the world, using innovative solutions to optimise performance while driving brand awareness through a purpose-led, shared value approach. This aligns perfectly with Qlik’s goal of helping organizations access and transform data into meaningful action across the globe to create a sustainable, data-literate world.

With Qlik, Team Qhubeka will for the first time be able to bring together all the team’s data for analysis in one platform, leveraging common APIs to break down data silos.

This will allow the team to query and explore their data on a whole new level for better-informed decision-making across the team’s entire staff.

“This is a game changer for us. With Qlik we can build a rider’s optimal race programme from existing data we didn’t fully leverage before. The level of insight Qlik is providing us with an integrated platform brings together all our data into a single source of truth, enabling real-time collaboration between all members of our staff and riders.”

“We analyze every physical component we can of the individual to try and create better understanding to help us make the incremental improvements that determine winning and losing. With Qlik, we can bring all this information together and provide our team with insights at the touch of a button, regardless of their location. Having this depth and quality of data will give us an edge over our competitors, assisting in improving our win ratio and overall team ranking.”  

Douglas Ryder, Team Principal for Team Qhubeka

Team Qhubeka has a continuous and growing wealth of data it creates and consumes daily to inform decisions that will result in wins. This includes everything from initial rider selection – particularly for new team riders – all the way through data related to travel logistics, sleep patterns from smart devices, and outputs from power meters on the racing bicycles. All these inputs will be efficiently analysed and easily understood through Qlik for pre-event planning and post-race analysis during longer multi-stage races.

The importance of the cloud and real-time collaboration is essential to the team’s success. The team’s riders and staff race 200+ days per year across multiple countries. The logistics and related data supporting a cycling team which includes a fleet of vehicles that serve as the team’s on-the-road nerve centers, along with continuous updating and planning from bars, restaurants and hotels, making Team Qhubeka’s office the open roads of the world. Qlik’s analytics are built for a multi-cloud world, making it a perfect match for how Team Qhubeka needs to operate.

Team Qhubeka

“We analyse every physical component of the individual to try and create better understanding to help them make the incremental improvements that determine winning and losing. With Qlik we can bring all this information together and provide our team with insights at the touch of a button, regardless of their location. Having this depth and quality of data will give us the edge over our competitors, with insights which will allow us to win more races and improve our overall rankings.”

Douglas Ryder, Team Principal for Team Qhubeka

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“We are delighted to be partnering with Team Qhubeka on their mission to become the best team possible and further their mission-driven goals. With Qlik Cloud, we will help the team close the gaps between their various data sources and deliver the right information to the right team members all across globe when it matters most.

Our partnership is also about more than just technology. Qhubeka provides bikes to young people across Africa to provide hope, new freedoms, and a new confidence in what they can achieve. At Qlik we’re passionate about empowering partnerships with our technology and expertise to positively change our world. Our values align so well in giving back and making a lasting impact that showcases the true meaning of Ubuntu – I am because we are.”

Chris Powell, Chief Marketing officer at Qlik

Differentia Consulting – an Elite Qlik partner based in the UK – is building the Qlik app that Team Qhubeka will use for the season ahead.

Differentia Consulting

“Differentia Consulting has provided Qlik services as part of its CSR program for many years and to many organisations with a compelling humanitarian mission. When asked if we and our partners could support Team Qhubeka we were delighted to ‘jump in the saddle’ and help. With many of our team being keen cyclists and having a growing list of sporting clients, we recognise their thirst for analytics to create competitive advantage. We are keen to showcase the Active Intelligence capabilities of Qlik and our team, including capturing data to provide realtime rider analytics.”

Adrian Parker, EVP Strategy & Marketing

Social Media

To stay up to date with Differentia Consulting news, please subscribe to our video feeds or follow us online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DCLUK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/differentia.consulting/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/differentia-consulting/

In addition, there are some LinkedIn groups that we suggest you subscribe to;

Qlik Application Platform Global User Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/72977/
Qlik Application Platform UK User Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1882895/
Qlik and SAP – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1891998/
#CyberHygiene – https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cyberhygiene/

Recommended Qlik Community Feeds

Qlik has consolidated much of its information, including self-service support information to the https://community.qlik.com site and we’d recommend that you subscribe to some of their feeds – in particular the Support Updates Blog. Finally please also have a look at qlik.dev – the Developer Portal for Qlik SaaS.

Qlik Cloud Data Integration: Real-Time Enterprise Data Fabric With Automated Data Movement and Advanced Transformations

New Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (eiPaaS) Connects All Enterprise Applications and Data Sources to the Cloud

Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (eiPaaS)

Qlik has launched Qlik Cloud® Data Integration, its Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (eiPaaS) offering, to fuel enterprise data strategies through a real-time data integration fabric that connects all enterprise applications and data sources to the cloud.

“Improving the access, real-time movement and advanced transformation of data between sources and systems across the enterprise is crucial to organizations realizing the full power of their data.

Qlik Cloud Data Integration helps create that real-time fabric between any data source, target and destination, leveraging the power of the cloud to enable everyone in the enterprise to act with certainty through data.”

James Fisher, Chief Product Officer at Qlik

Qlik Cloud Data Integration is a set of SaaS services designed for analytics and data engineers deploying enterprise integration and transformation initiatives. The services form a data fabric that unifies, transforms and delivers data across an organization via flexible, governed and reusable data pipelines. These pipelines are essential for modern, business-critical, AI, analytics and operational projects in today’s enterprise. 

“Cloud data integration technologies and services are a critical component of managing data pipelines and downstream analytics use cases in the modern data environment. Qlik’s set of technology services provide users with data access and integration capabilities across hybrid and multi-cloud platforms, enabling management of modern data to activate data and analytics.”

Stewart Bond, Vice President, Data Intelligence and Integration Software research at IDC

Since it uses a common set of cloud services that integrate with every major cloud platform – including AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure Synapse and Snowflake – Qlik Cloud Data Integration makes data even easier to find, transform, govern and deliver. Regardless of what data architecture an enterprise uses, Qlik Cloud Data Integration provides the fabric to align and deliver any relevant data, be it on-premises or the cloud, to applications and systems through any delivery option with:

• Real-Time Movement –Through Qlik’s industry-leading change data capture (CDC) engine, the most current and relevant changed data is moved to the cloud efficiently and at unsurpassed scale.
• Advanced Transformation – Quickly turns raw records into analytics-ready data via auto-generated, push-down SQL. It works by creating a reusable pipeline of data models and quality rules, and automates the generation and execution of SQL code to meet user-designed data models, marts or custom formats.
• Catalog and Lineage – Through strong metadata management and lineage, it’s crystal clear where data came from, how it was transformed, and that it is being used by the right people in the organization for the right purpose, increasing data’s trust and use.
• API Automation – Provides a no-code visual interface to automate workflows for cloud application and data APIs. Prebuilt templates are available for data engineering use cases including reverse ETL and multi-vendor catalog synchronization.

Qlik Cloud Data Integration’s rapid time to value and ROI

Why is Qlik Cloud Data Integration such good value?

According to new research conducted by GigaOm, Qlik’s approach to data integration provides an essential underpinning to a modern data fabric while delivering rapid time to value and ROI:

• Reduce data engineer and IT FTE workloads by 25% by aggregating massive amounts of data from multiple sources.
• Save 65 to 70% of data analyst and engineer data discovery, analysis and implementation time.
• Increase data management efficiency by 20% in year two, and 33% in year three.
• Deliver data integration and governance benefits – 60% in year two and an additional 25% in year three.

Why is Differentia Consulting excited about Qlik Cloud Data Integration services?

“Differentia Consulting has seen Qlik migrate its on premise capabilities for both analytics and now, data integration to cloud. This broader offering means that our clients, as they evolve, can adopt next generation cloud architecture as part of their data strategy and technology roadmap. (We refer to this as ‘new Qlik’).”

Adrian Parker, EVP of strategy and operations at Differentia Consulting

We can now offer Qlik Cloud Data Integration (QCDI) to create flexible data fabrics designed for data engineers to deliver, transform, and unify customers’ enterprise data in real time via automated, governed, and reusable data pipelines. These cloud-centric data pipelines improve data timeliness, reliability, and scale, to service every analytics, machine learning (ML), or digital transformation initiative.

Qlik Cloud Data Integration ensures your data is delivered where you need it, when you need it, and how you need it.

Differentia Consulting and MariaDB Partnership to Deliver Qlik Active Intelligence

With Qlik’s Active Intelligence platform and MariaDB, Differentia Consulting customers can easily migrate data from any legacy database source, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, to MariaDB Enterprise Server, MariaDB Xpand distributed SQL database or MariaDB SkySQL cloud database service, delivering business-ready data at a fraction of the cost of legacy databases.

Differentia Consulting’s MariaDB partnership ensures high availability, scalability, continuous integration and replication of synced data across on-premises, hybrid and cloud in a few, simple steps.

Following Qlik’s transition to a fully cloud-enabled Active Intelligence platform; including Qlik Cloud Data Integration, Differentia Consulting needed a solution to help clients reduce their data fabric growth challenges. Differentia Consulting’s MariaDB partnership allows users to service multiple application data use cases, for less. The addition of MariaDB and SkySQL expands our portfolio of disruptive, Lean IT technologies. MariaDB

Adrian Parker, EVP Strategy and Operations

As a leading Qlik partner, Differentia Consulting is ideally positioned to strengthen the collaboration already announced with Qlik. Using MariaDB offerings, Differentia Consulting can enable its customers to leave legacy databases behind. With Qlik and MariaDB, companies can realise the benefits of modern, scalable databases as they move to the cloud, or simply wish to consolidate and save cost.

Linda Waters, Partner Alliance Manager UK&I – Africa – Middle East

About Differentia Consulting

Differentia Consulting partners with IBM, Oracle (JD Edwards), Microsoft, AWS, Qlik Analytics Platform; QlikView and Qlik Sense, and Alteryx. Our clients come from all sectors and core technologies (JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, Infor, IFS, Microsoft, SAGE, Siebel, Salesforce, SugarCRM etc). Differentia Consulting’s ERP heritage (JD Edwards) supported the move into the Enterprise Data/Analytics/BI space, with Smarter.BI powered by Qlik, delivering value to clients as they discover their business, achieve operational excellence and become more agile for continued competitive advantage.

About MariaDB Corporation

MariaDB frees companies from the costs, cloud lock-in, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional, analytical or hybrid use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features, including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Bandwidth, DigiCert, InfoArmor, Oppenheimer, Samsung, SelectQuote, SpendHQ – MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it’s one of the fastest-growing database management systems companies. Real business relies on MariaDB™.

Differentia Consulting is pleased to announce the opening of it’s first regional office, in Cardiff.  As an IT Management Consulting company our clients often appreciate a local relationship. Having a South West office based in Cardiff is expected to benefit our clients based in the south west. The office officially opened on July 1st. The office will be staffed by a cross section of our staff, primarily focused on our Qlik Business Intelligence solutions. Servicing requirements from basic dashboards and analytics to enterprise wide data-driven business transformation.

Differentia Consulting, formed in 2002, was founded in the south west, near Bath, and moved to offices in Stokenchurch (J5 M40) to be more centric across the South of the UK.  In January of 2019 the management team agreed a strategy to open regional offices to service the growth in our Managed Services business.

The office in central Cardiff will cover all major services that we offer in our core business intelligence business. Customer Care will also centred in the Cardiff.

With the growth of Differentia Consulting’s  business/digital transformation managed services offerings, and with the south west being where many of our clients have their IT departments that look after analytics, it makes sense to have operational capability in the region. Not only that, the Universities in the region are producing graduates that have relevant skills that allow us to recruit locally, as part of our graduate development programme. Working in partnership with clients and having skills that are local we look forward to serving the south west with the same level of quality and service that our clients need for them to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving world.

“Recently we held the first Qlik Analytics World Tour event in Cardiff, this for me was a very proud day as I knew then that having an office in Cardiff would be great for our business but especially our Customer Care team. We are all based locally and very excited about the new office” Donna Hopkins – Head of Customer Services and Customer Care at Differentia Consulting.

For more information on how Differentia Consulting can assist your business or organisation adopt a data driven approach to digital transformation please email info@differentia.consulting or call  +44 (0)1494 622600

Our Cardiff office location can be found here https://www.differentia.consulting/differentia-consulting/contact/

Save the date for our next Qlik Customer Day.

This event is open to existing Qlik customers and prospects, and it will be the must attend Qlik event of the year. The event is free to attend by registering below, and all registrations will go through a checking and approvals process before reservations are confirmed.

Date: 20th March 2019

Time: 09.30 – 17.00

Location: The Green Park Conference Centre, Reading, RG2 6GP

• Updates: hear the latest news regarding Qlik’s modern BI product portfolio, and how this provides a platform for all of your analytics needs
• Network: with peers and Qlik customers who share similar day-to-day challenges, we will be having customer presentations as before
• Customer Stories: See how other customers are using Qlik
• Third Party Products: This event will feature a vendor showcase, giving you the opportunity to see how third party products could enhance your Qlik implementation

Take the opportunity to speak to senior Qlik experts from Differentia Consulting and senior members of Qlik. They will be happy to demonstrate the benefits of Qlik to you, and talk to you about your current or potential Qlik deployment.

See: https://www.differentia.consulting/event/qlik-customer-day-2019-march-20th-reading/

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