The new integrated solution simplifies and accelerates ingestion and on-boarding of analytics-ready SAP data.
Data integration and conversational analytics solutions provider Qlik has recently co-innovated with data cloud company Snowflake for a new solution that enables faster delivery of SAP data for cloud analytics. The solution leverages accelerated data pipeline creation and ongoing data streaming with Qlik Data Integration for faster ingestion and on-boarding of analytics-ready SAP data to Snowflake.
Chris Atkinson, Snowflake Global Partner CTO, shared that they have witnessed a significant increase in customers that leverage SAP data in their analytical efforts in the Snowflake Data Cloud.
“This integrated solution with Qlik will make it simpler and easier for joint customers and system integrators to deploy a trusted solution for delivering SAP data into Snowflake for analysis and action,” he added.
Unlocking SAP Data
Joining forces and expertise, Qlik and Snowflake’s new integrated solution enables customers to manage SAP data like any other data source with the agnostic and automated data pipeline creation capabilities of Qlik Data Integration. This is made possible with near real-time and continuous ingestion of SAP data into Snowflake’s platform, which includes the decoding of SAP proprietary data structures. Altogether, the solution, which supports all core and industry-specific SAP modules, unlocks analytics for previously unavailable or hard-to-access data from either legacy on-premise SAP environments or ones that were migrated already to run on a cloud platform.
With the new solution, Qlik Data Analytics can be used with Snowflake for insight generation, including pre-packaged dashboards for a variety of SAP business functions, or the use of other third-party BI and analytics tools based on customer preference.
Banking on Qlik’s data integration and analytics expertise, customers and system integrators can deploy the joint solution to maximise the value of SAP data for cloud analytics.
Qlik SVP technology alliances Itamar Ankorion shared:
“We are seeing significant growth in customer demand to get more value from their SAP data leveraging the agility, flexibility, and cost advantages of cloud analytics. Customers and system integrators leveraging Snowflake can quickly and confidently deploy this joint solution with Qlik to easily accelerate time to value, driving more insights and action.”
Qlik and Snowflake are recognised as leaders in their respective areas of expertise. The global software company Qlik is a Snowflake Elite Partner and 2020 Partner of the Year in Data Engineering and has recently been deepening its SAP capabilities in increasing the value of SAP data. Some of its new capabilities include a unified SAP connector that expands the ability of Qlik’s analytics platform to better leverage data from SAP for analysis in any SaaS or client-managed environment and SAP-focused data and analytics solution accelerators that speed the ROI of integrating data from SAP with modern analytics projects. Qlik also launched an integrated solution last September to help customers optimise SAP on Google Cloud and Google BigQuery.
Sydney-headquartered Snowflake has recently received a perfect recommend score, for the fourth consecutive year, in the 2021 Wisdom of Crowds Analytical Data Infrastructure (ADI) Market Study published by Dresner Advisory Services, LLC. In 2021, Snowflake maintained a high score across all metrics and ranked as an Overall Leader in the Customer Experience Model and achieved the rank of Credibility Leader in the report’s Vendor Credibility Model.