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Qlik Introduces More Rapid Enterprise AI Adoption Through New Integration with Databricks AI Functions

Philadelphia, PA, /Bengaluru, India June 12, 2024 – Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced a new strategic integration with Databricks AI Functions, enhancing enterprise AI capabilities through advanced data solutions. Following the recent launch of Qlik Talend Cloud, this integration further accelerates Qlik’s focus on streamlining data workflows and bolstering AI-driven business outcomes.

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The integration allows enterprises to access advanced Databricks’ Mosaic AI functionalities without extensive infrastructure changes or specialized training, facilitated by the advanced features of the newly launched Qlik Talend Cloud and empowering companies to unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation.

The integration of Qlik with Databricks AI Functions brings forth several enhancements that streamline and amplify AI capabilities for enterprises. This fusion between Qlik’s data integration platform and Databricks AI model APIs empowers users to tap into advanced AI functionalities on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform directly within their analytics workflows, making it easier to deploy AI-driven transformations and analyses.

● Advanced AI Functionality: Qlik customers can now utilize Databricks AI Functions such as sentiment analysis, classification, and translation within their Qlik Cloud Data Integration workflow. With Qlik Talend Cloud’s modern data engineering and AI-augmented data enrichment, this integration enables the performance of sophisticated transformation and processing through simple drag-and-drop functionality.

● Support for Databricks Vector Store: Empowering analytics from both structured and unstructured data, this upcoming capability leverages Databricks Vector Store for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications that can tap into a corpus of enterprise-trusted, high-quality data, enhancing the depth of AI-driven analytics.

● Enhanced Data Management and Analytics: The integration builds on Databrick’s comprehensive capabilities, particularly in handling large volumes and varieties of data. Qlik Talend Cloud adds functionalities around data lineage, historical data management, and the creation of data products, which are essential for maintaining data integrity and compliance. This integration ensures that the enriched AI-ready data provided by Qlik Talend Cloud is available on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

● Strategic Business Value: By leveraging Qlik’s data solutions with Databricks’ AI Functions, businesses can achieve faster and more accurate insights. This leads to improved decision-making processes, heightened operational efficiency, and the ability to swiftly adapt to market changes. The pioneering Qlik Talend Trust Score™ for AI further ensures the reliability and effectiveness of AI-driven insights.

“Through our integration with Databricks, Qlik is pushing the boundaries of enterprise AI, making it more effective and accessible,” stated David Zember, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Qlik. “This collaboration helps our customers to transform data into strategic assets, accelerating innovation and enhancing business agility.”

“Our partnership with Qlik underscores our shared commitment to advance AI-driven analytics,” said Roger Murff, VP of Technology Partners at Databricks. “This integration enables our shared customers to leverage Databricks’ AI Functions within Qlik’s trusted data solutions, streamlining their processes and enabling them to harness the full potential of their data for superior business outcomes.”

The Qlik-Databricks integration delivers substantial benefits, notably enhancing operational efficiency by automating data workflows, which drastically cuts the time from data collection to insight generation. It also empowers businesses with the ability to perform predictive analytics, optimizing operations and decision-making processes. Furthermore, this integration offers a competitive edge by equipping companies with the tools to proactively respond to market changes and capitalize on data-driven opportunities.

Qlik Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

Orlando, FL/Bengaluru, India June 4, 2024 – Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), today revealed it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). New targeted investments will simplify the path towards reliable and trusted enterprise AI by combining Qlik’s solutions with AWS cloud and generative AI technologies.

“Our SCA with AWS will accelerate our customers’ ability to use data and AI to sharpen their competitive edge,” stated Casey George, Executive Vice President, Global Sales at Qlik. “Together, we are investing to make AI more tangible and actionable, to enable companies to capitalize on their data foundations. This focused collaboration will deliver practical, industry-specific applications.”

“This collaboration with Qlik helps customers to harness advanced analytics and cloud technologies more effectively in generative AI deployments,” said Chris Grusz, Managing Director, Technology Partnerships, AWS. “Our combined efforts are focused on simplifying how businesses integrate and leverage AI for measurable gains.”

Qlik and AWS will collaborate on a series of strategic initiatives, each designed to provide specific benefits across four key areas:

  • · Drive AI App Development: The SCA will accelerate collaborative innovation that enables customers to derive value from generative AI applications including seamless integrations with AWS generative AI services, such as Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies via a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities organizations need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.
  • · Enhance SAP Data Utilization: The collaboration will allow customers to gain greater value from their SAP data by migrating their data environments, enabling modern solutions that leverage Qlik’s broad data integration capabilities for both SAP and non-SAP data sources.
  • · Streamline Data Compliance: The collaboration will further enable compliance, privacy, and sovereignty requirements across additional AWS Regions. This will support customer migration and innovation while enabling adherence to critical regulatory standards such as FedRAMP in the United States.
  • · Accelerate AI Technology Adoption: Qlik and AWS will intensify co-marketing and co-selling efforts with investments designed to accelerate customer success with trusted enterprise AI.

“Our long-standing engaegment with Qlik and AWS has equipped HARMAN to enhance its enterprise operations through a strong data and analytics foundation. Through this association, HARMAN Digital Transformation Solutions is also helping our customers streamline, simplify and modernize enterprise operations and adopt AI-based differentiators”, said Nick Parrotta, President – Digital Transformation Solutions & Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) at HARMAN.

Parrotta further added, “We strengthened our collaboration with Qlik to offer better data-driven solutions to our HARMAN Digital Transformation Solutions’ enterprise customers including generative AI based insights, contextual suggestions, large-scale data processing, embedded charts, analytics and governed self-service.”

This SCA aims to simplify business adoption of cloud-based data integration, analytics and AI solutions. The collaboration will focus on increasing co-selling initiatives to provide additional support and resources, simplifying how global enterprises leverage the combined capabilities of Qlik and AWS.