Ralf Becher has worked as an IT system architect and as an IT consultant since 1989 in the areas of banking, insurance, logistics, automotive, and retail. He founded TIQ Solutions in 2004 with partners. Based in Leipzig, his company specializes in modern, quality-assured data management. Since 2004, his company has been helping its customers process, evaluate, and maintain the quality of company data, helping them introduce, implement, and improve complex solutions in the fields of data architecture, data integration, data migration, master data management, metadata management, data warehousing, and business intelligence.
Ralf is an internationally-recognized Qlik expert with a strong position in the Qlik community. He started working with QlikView in 2006, and he has contributed to QlikView and Qlik Sense extensions. He has also contributed add-on solutions for data quality and data integration, especially for connectivity in the Java and Big Data realm. He runs his blog at http://irregular.bi/.
Miguel Ángel García is a business intelligence consultant and QlikView solutions architect. Having worked through many successful QlikView implementations from inception to implementation and performed across a wide variety of roles on each project, his experience and skills range from presales to application development and design, technical architecture, and system administration, as well as functional analysis and overall project execution.
Miguel is the coauthor of the book QlikView 11 for Developers, published in November 2012, and its corresponding translation to Spanish, QlikView 11 para Desarrolladores, published in December 2013. He has also participated as a technical reviewer in several other QlikView books.
Miguel runs a QlikView consultancy, AfterSync (http://aftersync.com/), through which he helps customers discover the power of the Qlik platform. He currently has the QlikView Designer, QlikView Developer, and QlikView System Administrator certifications, issued by Qlik, for versions 9, 10, and 11.
Michael Tarallo is a senior product marketing manager at Qlik. He has more than 17 years of experience in the Data Integration and Business Intelligence space from both open source and proprietary BI companies. Currently at Qlik, he is responsible for a broad spectrum of Marketing and Sales enablement activities for QlikView and Qlik Sense. He is best known for working with the Qlik Community and providing its members with valuable information to get them started with Qlik Sense, which includes the creation of high-quality video content. He has produced numerous videos ranging from promotional to instructional. Prior to Qlik, Mike worked for UPS, Information Builders, Pentaho, and Expressor. His career has spanned from data analysis, customer support, and account management to a solution architect and leader, crafting customer solutions, and painting visions of the "art of the possible" with the companies' software. He humbly admits that he is "a confident jack of all trades but a master of many."