Miguel ángel García is a business intelligence consultant and Qlik Solutions Architect from Monterrey, Mexico. Having worked throughout many successful Qlik implementations, from inception to implementation, and performed a wide variety of roles on each project, his experience and skills range from pre-sales to applications development and design, technical architecture, system administration, as well as functional analysis and overall project execution. He currently holds the QlikView Designer, QlikView Developer, and QlikView System Administrator certifications.
His early-found passion for QlikView led him to create and host the iQlik blog, which you can find at https://aftersync.com/blog and has been proved to help many developers, both newcomers and experienced, in their everyday development challenges. You can follow his blog updates via Twitter on @GarciaMMiguel and @iQlik.
He also delivers advanced online Qlik training at https://q-on.bi and https://masterclass.bi, so be sure to check out the courses there to continue learning QlikView and Qlik Sense development.
I also want to thank my family for their understanding and support throughout all the projects and endeavors I undertake. This book is dedicated to them.
Barry Harmsen is a business intelligence consultant based in the Netherlands. Here, he runs Bitmetric (http://www.bitmetric.nl), a boutique consulting firm specialized in the Qlik product suite. Originally from a background of traditional business intelligence, data warehousing, and performance management, in 2008 Barry made the shift to Qlik and a more user-centric form of business intelligence. Since then, he and his team have helped many clients get the most out of their investments in the Qlik platform.
Barry is one of the four Qlik experts teaching at the Masters Summit for Qlik (http://www.masterssummit.com), advanced training for experienced Qlik professionals. He also runs the Amsterdam chapter of the Qlik Dev Group (http://qlikdevgroup.com/), an open and informal gathering where Qlik professionals can share knowledge and experiences.
For his contributions to the Qlik ecosystem, Barry has been accredited by Qlik as a Qlik Luminary since 2014.
Barry and his colleagues regularly post Qlik tips, tricks, and tutorials at the QlikFix blog (http://www.qlikfix.com). He can also be found on Twitter as @meneerharmsen.
I want to thank my daughter Lucie, my sons Lex and Bob, and especially my wife Miranda for the support and patience during the writing and updating of this book.
I also want to thank the team at Bitmetric: Wesley Smit, Rik Cramer, Johan van den Bosch, and Vincent Hayward.