Ralf Becher has worked as an IT system architect and as an IT consultant since 1989 in banking, insurance, logistics, automotive, and retail sectors. He founded TIQ Solutions GmbH in 2004 with his partners. The company specializes in modern, quality-assured data management.
Since 2004, they have been helping their 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 QlikView expert with a strong position in the Qlik Community. He started working with QlikView in 2006 and has contributed QlikView add-on solutions for data quality and data integration, especially for connectivity in the Java and Big Data realms. He runs his QlikView data integration blog at http://tiqview.tumblr.com/.
Gert Jan Feick studied Informatics (language, knowledge, and interaction) at Technical University of Enschede (NL). He started his career as a project manager at a medium-sized software development company, specializing in requirements analysis and project management. From 2005 onward, he was responsible for the buildup of a company in the areas of software development, reporting and visualizations, and analysis. In 2011, he moved to Germany and became a management consultant at Infomotion GmbH, where he is responsible for the team that works on self-service and Agile BI as well as reporting and analysis.
He regularly contributes to online forums (including the Qlik Community), speaks at conventions, and writes articles. You can follow him on Twitter at @gdollen where he tweets about QlikView, Agile and self-service BI, data visualization, and other topics in general.
Miguel Ángel García is a Business Intelligence consultant and QlikView Solutions Architect, based in Monterrey, Mexico. Having worked throughout many successful QlikView implementations, from inception through implementation, and performed across a wide variety of roles on each project; his experience and skills range from presales to applications development and design, technical architecture, system administration, as well as functional analysis and overall project execution.
He is the co-author of QlikView 11 for Developers, Packt Publishing, which was published in November 2012, and its corresponding translation into Spanish, QlikView 11 para Desarrolladores, Packt Publishing, published in December 2013. He has also worked as a technical reviewer for several other QlikView books.
He is the cofounder of Q-On Training Center (www.q-on.bi), a place where users, developers, and enthusiasts can get access to online QlikView training, with options that cover all the skill levels.
He currently holds the QlikView Designer, QlikView Developer, and QlikView System Administrator certifications issued by Qlik, for Versions 9, 10, and 11.
In 2014, he was awarded the Qlik Luminary distinction in recognition for his active participation and collaboration in the QlikView ecosystem.
Barry Harmsen is the owner of Bitmetric, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in QlikView and is based in the Netherlands. Originally from a background of traditional Business Intelligence, data warehousing, and performance management; in 2008 he made the shift to QlikView and a more user-centric form of Business Intelligence.
Since switching over to QlikView, Barry and his team have completed many successful implementations in many different industries, from financial services to telecom and from manufacturing to healthcare. His QlikView experience covers a wide variety of roles and subjects including requirements analysis, design, development, architecture, infrastructure, system administration, integration, project management, and training.
In 2012, he co-authored QlikView 11 for Developers, Packt Publishing. This book has quickly established itself as one of the best ways to teach yourself QlikView. He is also one of the core speakers at the Masters Summit for QlikView. This 3-day conference for QlikView developers covers advanced topics and is designed to take your QlikView skills to the next level. More information about the Masters Summit can be found at www.masterssummit.com.
Barry maintains a QlikView blog at www.qlikfix.com and can be followed on Twitter at @meneerharmsen.