The acquisition advances Qlik’s vision of active intelligence, where technology and processes trigger immediate action from real-time, up-to-date, and trusted data to accelerate business value across the entire data and analytics supply chain.
“NodeGraph’s interactive data lineage, impact analysis, and governance capabilities make it clear where data is coming from, how it was transformed, and how trustworthy it is,” explains Qlik CEO Mike Capone. “This visibility provides every employee with confidence and trust in data, which is essential in creating a culture driven by Active Intelligence where data becomes part of every task.”
According to Qlik, organisations are empowering more employees with data and analytics to make timely decisions. As data is employed throughout the organisation, both IT and business leaders need to collaborate and ensure that data is trustworthy and being is used correctly.
NodeGraph’s lineage and governance capabilities will expand Qlik’s ability to provide the data fabric that customers need to fully understand the data flowing through their analytics data pipelines—from source through transformation to use.
NodeGraph’s field level lineage on specific data elements and their transformations helps identify gold-standard calculations and shows exactly where important metrics and KPIs come from, driving the notion of explainable BI across multiple versions of the truth.
The open design of NodeGraph enables connectivity and lineage across cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, along with analytics sources such as Qlik, SSIS, Snowflake, Microsoft Power BI, and Tableau, which matches Qlik’s agnostic approach to data integration.
NodeGraph will help organisations expand data and analytics access and modernise and migrate analytics to the cloud, says Qlik.
“NodeGraph enables us to understand data lineage within our Qlik universe and allows us to deliver value to the business,” Ocean State Job Lot BI developer Lauren Coulombe says.
When deployed as part of Qlik’s cloud platform, NodeGraph will further expand Qlik’s existing SaaS roadmap and bring capabilities to Qlik’s catalogue, including impact analysis, field level lineage, and personalised consumer user experience in areas of collaboration, cognitive, search, and relevancy scores on content leveraging data popularity.
NodeGraph will also support Qlik’s hybrid data delivery strategy with lineage to enrich regulatory compliance requirements.
Qlik says terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Qlik is fully committed to supporting all existing NodeGraph customers and partners, many of whom are shared by Qlik.
Qlik will integrate NodeGraph into its SaaS solution in the second half of 2021 with commercial monetisation beginning in Q4 2021.
