Harnessing multi-point enterprise data: Inside the Snowflake-Qlik team-up

With hybrid cloud infrastructures turning into a preferred choice for organizations, a rising quantity of knowledge is being generated concurrently from disparate areas: both on-premises or within the cloud.

Snowflake Inc. and QlikTech Worldwide AB partnered to offer a savvy knowledge analytics platform to assist prospects leverage knowledge from current techniques, reminiscent of SAP Knowledge Providers.

“Qlik Knowledge Integration helps to automate the info pipelines to ship knowledge to the place they wish to use them in actual time and make the info prepared for analytics,” mentioned Itamar Ankorion (pictured, proper), senior vp of know-how alliances at Qlik. “Qlik Knowledge Analytics is a strong platform for analytics and enterprise intelligence that’s been a pacesetter within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for over 11 years. Each of those come collectively into what we name Qlik Cloud, which is our SaaS-based platform.”

Ankorion and Peter MacDonald (pictured, left), vp of cloud partnerships and enterprise improvement at Snowflake, spoke with theCUBE business analyst John Furrier on the latest AWS re:Invent convention, throughout an unique broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They mentioned the Qlik and Snowflake joint venture that has resulted in an enterprise knowledge analytics suite. (* Disclosure beneath.)

Accelerating the time to worth for enterprises

Snowflake has made no bones about its dedication to staying the course and being an information platform first. Nevertheless, a number of buyer ache factors arose, reminiscent of costly on-premises {hardware}, capability constraints and restricted performance, in keeping with MacDonald. In addressing these points, the corporate has shaped a partnership with Qlik, alongside different long-standing ecosystem companions, together with Amazon Internet Providers Inc.

“Our prospects wish to convert knowledge into insights together with superior analytics platforms in AI,” MacDonald mentioned. “That’s how they make holistic data-driven options that may give them a aggressive benefit. With Snowflake, our method is to concentrate on buyer options that leverage knowledge from current techniques, reminiscent of SAP, whether or not within the cloud or on-premise. And to do that, we leverage companions like Qlik to assist prospects rework their companies.”

A set of 4 distinctive issues needed to be thought by means of to create the answer, in keeping with Ankorion. The primary focuses on knowledge supply and integrating it correctly into Snowflake. The second is making that knowledge analytics-ready as soon as it arrives in Snowflake.

“The third factor is bringing collectively knowledge visualization analytics that may additionally take all the info now that in organizing inside Snowflake, convey different knowledge in, convey machine studying from SageMaker, after which create a seamless integration to convey analytic purposes to life,” Ankorion acknowledged. “And the final level is we really took the following step with this and we created one thing we consult with as resolution accelerators.”

The partnership between each corporations is already evolving and increasing in scope as Qlik, in mid-2022, introduced two key features to be added to its Cloud Analytics Providers for Snowflake. The primary is Direct Query, enabling customers to generate pushdown SQL to question Snowflake from inside Qlik Sense. The second focuses on cloud knowledge integration companies and contains real-time change knowledge seize and motion to Snowflake.

Right here’s the whole video interview, a part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s protection of AWS re:Invent:

(* Disclosure: Snowflake Inc. sponsored this phase of theCUBE. Neither Snowflake nor different sponsors have editorial management over content material on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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