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BME HE User Day Barcelona 17-18 May 2018

8th June 2018
by Steve Sapseid

 

“Best user day ever” – was the comment from most attendees !!!

 

For some time now the user group has wanted to have a user day abroad.  A vote was taken at the May 2017 user day in Reading and the consensus was that Barcelona was going to be the venue for the 18th BME Qlik HE Conference in May 2018.  As the expense was not insignificant, some universities had to decline but the conference was still well attended.

 

For the first time we decided to have university presentations over two days.  The user day began at 2pm on 17 May and was held at the H10 Casanova Barcelona Hotel.  The presentation sessions on 17 May was followed by a guided 5 hour Food & Wine Walking Tour of Barcelona (arranged by Spanish Trails). Everyone raved about the tour as it was a excellent way to see ‘off the beaten track’ Tapas restaurants and explore Barcelona.   We stopped off at 5 different Tapas restaurants during the tour with our guide explaining each local dish and drink. This forum proved an excellent way to for Qlik users at universities to network with each other and discuss the varying ways the software was been used at each institution.

 

The user conference resumed at 10am on 18 May and ended at 4pm.  In addition to the UK university presentations, we were fortunate to be able to get two Spanish institutions, EAE Business School  and Instituto de Empresa to present the way that Qlik was used at their universities.  This was a good way to benchmark how UK university Qlik applications fared against usage of Qlik in another country.  Qlik and BME hosted dinner at a Barcelona waterfront restaurant after the event, followed by sundowners at a roof top bar.  Once again great opportunities to chat informally and network.

 

The standard of the presentations on both days was again excellent. With Mark Gittins and Stuart Powell from Anglia Ruskin being voted as delivering the ‘most beneficial’ presentation. The user day event is still a superb way of sharing ideas, expertise and tips between universities that have implemented and continue to develop Qlik. The nine presentation session delivered on the day are listed below. All of the presentations are available to download on the BME HE Forum.

 

A great event and thank you to all who attended and especially presented.

 

 

SESSION AGENDA

SESSION TOPIC PRESENTER

Qlikview template re-design
Re-designing and re-launching Business Intelligence Datamarts
 University of Strathclyde

Reusability in Layers
Building the Qlik 3 tier data architecture and reusing it		 Bath Spa University

Forecasting with Qlikview
Using Qlikview to produce forecasts across different data sets
 Anglia Ruskin University

Integrating student numbers for financial, statutory and internal strategic planning
Steps the Qlikview team has taken to integrate the different ways of counting students, and the pros & cons thereof. We don’t have a perfect solution, so we would be keen to make this an interactive session and hear your views and experiences.

 Oxford Brookes University

Converting Qlikview apps into Qlik Sense apps
The Qlik Sense Converter tool makes it easier to convert Qlikview charts, expressions and variables into Qlik Sense apps		 BME Solutions

Combining the power of Qlikview and Qlik Sense in Analytics learning
Using the Qlik Academic Program to teach students at EAE Business School skills in analytics and decision making.		 EAE Business School (Madrid / Barcelona) and Qlik

Monitoring our student Intakes
How we use an operations report in Qlikview to check intake targets against actual matriculations

 University of Edinburgh

Business Discovery using Qlik
How we design proper visual analytics tools in Qlikview to add value to the different business stakeholders		 Instituto de Empresa
(Madrid)
Cool Qlik tips
10 minute tips on something cool we have done in Qlik
 University of Leeds, University of Glasgow, BME Solutions
 

Download full agenda and presentation schedule

 

 

The next user day will be in the UK, please check back on the website for venue and dates.

 

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