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Qlik Recognizes Pioneers in Data Innovation at 2024 Global Transformation Awards

Jun 6, 2024 by Mansi Praharaj 0 Comments #Data Innovation, #Global Transformation Award, #Mike Capone, #Qlik

Orlando, FL/Bengaluru India, June 6, 2024 – Today at the annual Qlik Connect conference, Qlik® announced the winners of its 2024 Global Transformation Awards. Held in Orlando, this year’s Qlik Connect brought together industry leaders to recognize significant achievements in data-driven business practices. Jamie Kiser, Qlik’s SVP of Customer Success and Operations, presented the awards, highlighting organizations that have effectively used Qlik’s solutions to achieve excellence in data integration, AI innovation, data governance, analytics leadership, and global impact.

The Global Transformation Awards underscore the critical role of innovative data strategies in achieving competitive advantages as businesses increasingly integrate AI into their operations. This year’s awards spotlight organizations that are focused on their data foundations and have embraced our technology-agnostic analytics solutions, paving the way for accelerating AI adoption. As companies navigate the complexities of digital transformation, the winners exemplify how a focus on data can both fuel operational efficiencies and drive significant societal advancements.

“Each winner of the Global Transformation Awards has showcased an outstanding ability to utilize data to not only drive their business strategies forward but also to seize opportunities to make a meaningful impact on their communities and the environment,” said Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik. “This year’s winners exemplify the incredible potential of data to foster innovation and lead change. We are honored to support their journey and celebrate their success.”

The 2024 Qlik Global Transformation Award Winners:

  • Hilton – Integration Excellence Award: Hilton has effectively harnessed Qlik’s data integration tools to streamline data processes across its vast network, creating more than 170 distinct solutions for tackling data integration challenges. By processing and loading over 80TB of data into their cloud data lake and warehouse, Hilton has significantly enhanced operational efficiency and security.
  • Fujitsu – Data Mastery Award: Fujitsu has pioneered the use of data visualization and analytics across its organization. Establishing a ‘Data Analytics Centre,’ Fujitsu empowers all 120,000 employees with Qlik Data Analytics, promoting a data-driven management culture and increasing operational efficiency through seamless integration with cloud-based SAP solutions.
  • Ingersoll Rand – Governance Expertise Award: Ingersoll Rand utilizes Qlik to enhance data governance across its global operations. The company’s rigorous approach to monitoring data across the supply chain and environmental sustainability metrics not only improves business processes but also supports robust corporate sustainability efforts.
  • Carvajal Tecnología y Servicios – AI Innovation Award: Carvajal T&S has leveraged Qlik’s AI and analytics capabilities to transform its customer relationship management in Latin America. Their use of Qlik Cloud Analytics in the Prescriptiva solution optimizes inventory management and sales processes, improving customer satisfaction by up to 25% and increasing sales by 24%.
  • Verizon Communications Inc. – Analytics Leadership Award: Verizon Communications utilizes Qlik analytics to enhance financial reporting and operational decision-making. With Qlik, Verizon supports Sarbanes-Oxley compliant reporting and workflow automation, which has led to significant reductions in employee hours and operational costs.
  • Van Oord – Global Impact Award: Van Oord engages Qlik to address global climate challenges through its Climate Risk Overview tool. This innovative application analyzes geo-data to identify flood hazards along global coastlines, supporting proactive environmental planning and community engagement.
  • Avon Institute by Brazilian Senate – Global Impact Award: The Brazilian Senate alongside the Avon Institute use Qlik to combat gender-based violence in Brazil. Their National Map of Gender Violence, a Qlik-based tool, integrates data from multiple sources to inform public policies and support initiatives aimed at protecting women from violence.
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Qlik Acquires Blendr.io To Drive Real-time Data Into SaaS Applications and Automate Enterprise Processes To Create New Insights and Trigger Actions

Oct 23, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Blendr.io, #Doug Henschen, #Mike Capone, #Qlik, #SaaS Applications

Qlik® today acquired Blendr.io, an easy-to-use, scalable and secure embedded integration and automation platform (iPaaS), that seamlessly automates data integration and orchestration of processes across 500+ SaaS applications and cloud data sources. Purpose-built for embedded SaaS use cases and enterprise integration workflows, Blendr.io expands Qlik’s ability to deliver Active Intelligence through its end-to-end data integration and cloud analytics platform, where real-time, up-to-date data triggers immediate action to accelerate business value across the entire data and analytics supply chain.

“Modern data and analytics solutions like Qlik are delivering Active Intelligence, where technology and processes enable the continuous use of real-time data to automate action and enable timely decision making,” said Mike Capone, CEO at Qlik. “Blendr.io’s extensive iPaaS solution will further expand the ability of Qlik’s end-to-end platform to help customers more easily and seamlessly integrate data and automate processes across every decision throughout the organization.”

With the acceleration to cloud-based SaaS applications, modern data and analytics platforms must enable real-time data access, ingestion, transformation and insight discovery to trigger action at the point of decision. Through Blendr.io’s best-in-class application connectivity, integration and process automation solutions, Qlik reinforces the importance of automation and action as key attributes of its cloud-first end-to-end data and analytics platform.

“We’re heading into an era in which integration and automation capabilities will be blended with business processes and analytics,” said Doug Henschen, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “This blending will help companies evolve from just managing data and publishing dashboards to automating actions and delivering concise, contextually relevant insights at key decision points.”

Blendr.io’s technology enables Qlik to expand the existing breadth of its data integration and data analytics offerings to also include automation to trigger actions and enhance augmented analytics capabilities. Qlik will expand existing Blendr.io standalone iPaaS use cases to include the ability for customers to explore new analytics use cases through timely access to even more analytics-ready relevant data from over 500 SaaS applications.

Blendr.io, which already serves more than 1,500 end user clients through over 100 customer accounts such Aptivio, Graydon and Globis Software, provides a comprehensive set of real-time integration and automation layers, including:

Connectivity Layer  Enables integrations with cloud platforms and 500+ SaaS applications

Integration Layer  Enables building of comprehensive “blends” with an easy-to-use, flexible low-code visual builder that supports scheduling and adds business logic by including conditions, variables and more

UI and Embedding Layer  Embeds integrations into the UI of a cloud platform and offers end customers fast, comprehensive ways to activate integration across marketing, sales, and other cloud platforms such as CRM, ERP, helpdesk and more

Management Layer  Delivers central management of customers, integrations, templates and embedding into a cloud platform

Blendr.io will also help expand the Qlik ecosystem use cases across ISVs, SaaS providers and enterprises. For ISVs and SaaS providers, Blendr.io helps integrate data from existing SaaS solutions with a variety of customer solutions, including accounting software, ERPs, CRMs, e-commerce platforms, sales cloud tools, messaging apps and more. Blendr.io also helps ISVs and SaaS providers enable customer self-service activation through native integrations to cloud data sources.

For IT teams managing enterprise application and integration, Blendr.io easily integrates into almost any platform, from application tracking systems and human resource management systems to e-learning and expense management. And through Blendr.io, organizations can more easily feed AI engines and platforms by automating the data capture from hundreds of cloud application data sources to further data science and predictive analytics efforts.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Blendr.io team and leadership have joined Qlik as part of the Global Products and Product Technology organizations. Qlik is fully committed to supporting all existing Blendr.io customers and the platform will continue to be made available to new SaaS solution partners. Qlik will be integrating Blendr.io technologies into its current go-to-market models, with plans to integrate the technologies into its cloud-first data and analytics platforms starting in 2021