Agile metadata intelligence solution facilitates expansion of QlikView throughout the enterprise while ensuring data confidence
Accelerating Data Governance for the
As Enterprise Business Discovery momentum has increased, the need for QlikView customers to describe data consistently and then reuse it to speed up deployment of additional applications has grown. To expand the use of QlikView's Business Discovery platform, a metadata intelligence solution will help IT departments to know what data is being used and how it is being used (data lineage), while ensuring consistency and appropriate reuse of common data definitions (data governance).
"With this acquisition we are taking Business Discovery to the next
level, offering a new breed of rapid, iterative metadata intelligence
that delivers control at the core and flexibility at the edges of an
organization," said
How it Works: Descriptive Rather Than Prescriptive Approach
With the practical data governance as-you-deploy approach, customers describe data consistently as they build QlikView apps rather than being locked into doing it all upfront with a prescriptive semantic layer.
With the QlikView Expressor active metadata intelligence solution, customers can:
"Expressor fits squarely in our acquisition strategy. We are acquiring complementary, tuck-in technology that will enhance the value we provide to our customers as we further develop and bring to market these solutions. We are also adding more than 20 outstanding people, primarily software engineers, expanding our R&D skill set," said Lars Björk, Chief Executive Officer of QlikTech.
Product Availability
As Expressor had developed integrations to QlikView as a partner, the QlikView Expressor Server is available immediately in standard and enterprise versions. More information can be found on QlikTech's web site and similar to QlikView, users can try the solution with a free download.
Future product roadmap and integration plans will be introduced over the coming months.
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