About the Authors
Ganapati Hegde is an engineer by background. He carries an overall IT experience of over 16 years. He is very passionate about technology and is always looking out to learn newer technologies.
He started his IT career with SK International where he headed Software Services and worked with myriad of technologies, including programming, databases, IT security, application virtualization, and cloud services. During his stint with SK International, he was involved in lot of integration projects and thus has good knowledge on API/SDK. He was instrumental in setting up practices such as RSA, Citrix, Oracle, and Salesforce.
He is currently working with Predoole Analytics, an award winning Qlik partner in India, in the presales role. He has worked on BI projects in several industry verticals and works closely with customers, helping them in their BI strategies. His experience in other aspects of IT, like application design and development, cloud computing, networking, and IT Security, helps him to design perfect BI solutions. He conducts workshops to increase user awareness and drive adoption.
He works on analysis of unstructured time stamped data and IOT as well, allowing customer to get business insights and help improve efficiency. This is being done with the help of big data platform Khika, which does real time co-relation of log data across sources. This helps customers mitigate risk and help in IT Audit and Compliance.
Ganapati is now working on improving his knowledge of advanced analytics using technologies like R and phython.
I would like to thank Mr. Hemant and Mr. Vasudev, founders of SK International, who put immense faith in me and helped me to work on several technologies.
Special thanks to Amit, founder of Predoole Analytics, who gave permission to work on this book and who provided guidance to me during my initial days at Predoole. I take this opportunity to thank my co-author Kaushik and my other colleagues, who helped me when I was new to Qlik and shortened my learning curve. Also, the team at Qlik India has been phenomenal and has helped improve my knowledge through ongoing partner training. I thank each one of the members. I wish to thank all my school and college teachers and mentors who have helped me to be the person I am today. Thanks to Packt team for giving this great opportunity. Last but not the least I thank The Almighty.
Kaushik Solanki has been Qlik MVP(most valuable player) for years 2016 and 2017. He has been playing with Qlik technology for more than seven years. He started his career being a Qlik developer and currently works with Predoole Analytics, an elite Qlik partner in India, as Qlik Project Delivery Manager. He is also a certified Qlikview administrator.
Kaushik loves to share his experience and educate others. He is an active member of Qlik community, where he helps in solving problems.
He has a great understanding of project delivery, right from business requirement to final implementation. His experience in various domains has helped businesses to take valuable business decisions.
Kaushik is an Information technology engineer by profession. He also holds the master degree in finance.
A special thanks to Amit Gadkari, Director of Predoole Analytics Pvt Ltd, for finding talent in me and giving me opportunity to grow with him. He is responsible for whatever standing I have today.
I would like to thank my parents and my wife Megha for understanding me and helping me beyond limits. I would also like to thank all my colleagues for helping me with the topics of this book.
I thank all our editors for giving their valuable time in reviewing the book and helping in making this book more fruitful. Finally, I thank Tejas and the team from Packt publication for their continuous support and publishing of this book.