Qlik® announced a number of new and improved capabilities that will help customers get the most out of their Snowflake Data Cloud investment. These services make it easier to feed near real-time data to Snowflake, access data in real-time, and act on it for better decision-making across the company.

“Customers are looking to augment their investment in Snowflake with services that accelerate the access and availability of near-real-time data for modern analytics,” said Tarik Dwiek, Head of Technology Alliances of Snowflake. “We are excited about Qlik’s latest SaaS platform integrations with Snowflake, which can make it easier for customers to leverage near real-time data through Snowflake to improve decision-making across the organisation with up-to-date insights.”

“Since the start of our collaboration with Qlik and Snowflake, we’ve seen some immense results. By moving the database to the cloud and having it work with Qlik's automated solutions, we can unlock new data sources in our data warehouse within five days, instead of 20, and create new incremental data marts in days rather than weeks. We also achieved a 75% cost reduction on ETL development,” said Maikel Jaspers, BI Engineer at Ewals Cargo Care. “Now not only can we run reports more efficiently, but we can also fulfil more requests. This has given us more agility, and ultimately makes the entire company much more effective, something we've been striving to do for a very long time.”

When deploying Qlik's cloud platform with Snowflake, two new features have been added to its Cloud Analytics Services for Snowflake to help users get greater value from near real-time data. Direct Query allows users to query Snowflake on-demand from within Qlik Sense by automatically generating pushdown SQL. This combines the ability to optimise Snowflake queries with instant access to the most recent data, while also allowing Qlik Sense users to create best-in-class visualisations and dashboards. Qlik's FinOps and query optimisation analytic applications build on Qlik's existing Snowflake usage dashboards, giving CDOs and data leaders a complete picture of what's driving Snowflake consumption and how to effectively optimise Snowflake workloads for better user experience.

Qlik also released new and enhanced Qlik Cloud Data Services capabilities for Snowflake, including: 

• Real-time change data capture and movement to Snowflake including major databases, SAP, mainframe and SaaS applications.

• Data warehouse automation for model-driven code generation, which dramatically reduces the time, cost, and risk to realise the full potential of Snowflake.

• Reverse ETL to replicate enriched data from the Snowflake platform back to the operational systems of record. 

At QlikWorld, Qlik’s recent customer and partner event, industry leaders such as ABB, Best Buy Canada, CSS, Harman, Novartis, SDI and Urban Outfitters showcased how they leverage Qlik solutions with Snowflake to activate data for insights and action.

• ABB demonstrated how they combine Qlik Data Integration to feed Snowflake with SAP and other data sources to unlock the hidden value of data at scale and help create deeper insights faster.

• Best Buy Canada showed how they partnered with Accenture, Qlik and Snowflake to accelerate the delivery of the initial phase of a multi-phased data ecosystem modernisation journey in the cloud. 

• CSS outlined how they built a modern cloud data lakehouse with near real-time data ingestion and fully automated creation of analytics structures for rapid business insights by using Qlik Data Integration with Snowflake.

• SDI showcased ZEUS, their MRO technology platform, which digitises a portion of the supply chain by leveraging Qlik and Snowflake to uniquely summarise activity for any supply chain manager. 

“We’re seeing continued customer success and growth in demand to leverage Qlik and Snowflake together to advance cloud data analytics strategies,” said Itamar Ankorion, SVP of Technology Alliances at Qlik. “These recent new features and enhancements, including Direct Query capabilities and Cloud Data Integration Services, are part of our continued investments to innovate and help customers accelerate time to value and drive more insights and action from their data.”