Are you ready to tap into the potential of your raw data?
Yesterday's infrastructure wasn't built to deliver on today's demands. In the past, a siloed approach kept the data analysts and end-users separate causing a bottleneck between questions and meaningful insights. This in turn causes decreased user adoption as individuals lose faith that they will get timely data-driven answers that actually move the needle for the business. Fortunately, you don't have to settle for last year's solutions any longer. There is a much better way to increase user adoption and ROI while decreasing the time to value.
The Rise of DataOps
SME's team of experts have helped multiple organizations leverage Qlik solutions to break the data bottleneck for good, optimize their pipelines, reduce the time between iterations, and create a data analytics solution that is truly scalable.
The DataOps methodology is centered on accelerating the entire ingestion-to-analytics value chain. In previous deployments, SME helped clients introduce new processes for streamlining the interactions of data owners, database administrators, data engineers, and the data consumers. The result is a collaborative mentality that touches every data user and greatly enhances data literacy.
The Business Impact
Below you can review several raw data solutions we utilize at SME to help our clients get the greatest business impact. However, the ultimate goal of deploying one or all of them is simple: Reliability and Accuracy.
RAW DATA SOLUTIONS

Qlik Replicate
Qlik Replicate empowers organizations to accelerate data replication, ingestion and streaming across a wide variety of heterogeneous databases, data warehouses, and big data platforms. ...

Qlik Compose For Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
Qlik Compose automates your data pipelines to create analytics-ready data sets and provides a modern approach by automating and optimizing data warehouse creation and operation. ...

Qlik Catalog
Qlik Catalog is a modern enterprise data management solution that simplifies and accelerates the delivery of trustworthy, actionable data in days, not months. ...

Platform Manager
Version Control, Deployment and Governance are important topics when using BI tools in general. For Qlik Sense there is a solution: Platform Manager. ...
Qlik Replicate
Used by hundreds of enterprises worldwide, Qlik Replicate moves your data easily, securely, and efficiently with minimal operational impact. Replicate, synchronize, distribute, consolidate, and ingest data across all major databases, data warehouses and Hadoop, on-premises, and in the cloud.
Qlik Replicate has enabled:
A global insurer to cut its nightly batch load time from 6-8 hours to under 10 minutes.
A large credit services organization to apply 14 million source changes to the target in 30 seconds.
Quickly and easily set up data replication with an intuitive GUI, eliminating the need for manual coding.
Simplify massive ingestion into Big Data platforms from thousands of sources.
Automatically generate target schemas based on source metadata.
Efficiently process Big Data loads with parallel threading.
Use change data capture process (CDC) to maintain true real-time analytics with less overhead.
From Raw To ReadyQlik Compose For Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
Qlik Compose for Data Lakes
By automating data ingestion, schema creation, and continual updates, organizations realize faster time-to-value from their existing data lake investments.
Universal Data Ingestion
Supporting one of the broadest ranges of data sources, Qlik Compose for Data Lakes ingests data into your data lake whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Sources include:
- RDBMS: DB2, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Sybase
- Data warehouses: Exadata, IBM Netezza, Pivotal, Teradata, Vertica
- Hadoop: Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR
- Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Messaging systems: Apache Kafka
- Enterprise applications: SAP
- Legacy systems: DB2 z/OS, IMS/DB, RMS, VSAM
Qlik Compose for Data Warehouses
Speed time to analytics
Traditional methods of building and managing data warehouses are straining to keep pace with business demands. The multi-month, error-prone ETL development effort to set up a data warehouse – typically 60-80% of prep time – often means that the data model is out-of-date before the BI project even starts. Modifying these brittle data warehouses causes more delays, ties up skilled resources and delays project ROI.
To speed time to analytics, the data warehouse creation and management lifecycle must be streamlined wherever possible.
Modern Approach For Data Warehousing
Qlik Compose for Data Warehouses provides a modern approach by automating and optimizing data warehouse creation and operation. Qlik Compose automates designing the warehouse, generating ETL code, and quickly applying updates, all whilst leveraging best practices and proven design patterns. Qlik Compose for Data Warehouses dramatically reduces the time, cost and risk of BI projects, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
From Raw To ReadyQlik Catalog
Put all your data into one simplified view
Qlik Catalog builds a secure, enterprise-scale catalog of all the data your organization has available for analytics, no matter where it is. Powerful, automated data preparation and metadata tools streamline the transformation of raw data into analytics-ready information assets. Business users get a single, go-to data marketplace to find, understand, and use any enterprise data source to gain insights.
Onboard Data
Automatically profile and document the exact content, structure, and quality of your data using built-in data loaders to simplify and accelerate the process
Enrich the catalog
Build a Smart Data Catalog that documents every aspect of your data. Technical, business, and operational metadata make each data element understandable and actionable.
Prepare data
Get your data business-ready with data standardization, cleansing, and protection measures. Easily enhance, blend, and filter data using a simple drag-and-drop process.
Shop and publish
Let users easily and securely “shop” for the data they need, exporting, sharing or automatically publishing data sets to Qlik Sense and other analytic tools and applications.
From Raw to ReadyPlatform Manager
Platform Manager provides:
- Integrated Version Control with ability to use the Qlik Sense MyWork stream as your workspace
- Simple Deployment to all of your Qlik Sense servers
- Customizable Workflow/Checklist with built-in authorization
- Difference Analyses reports
- Ability to change Library connections during Deployment of your Qlik Sense apps
- Data Lineage visualizes all dependencies of your Qlik Sense apps
Version Control Made Easy
Platform Manager organizes and Streamlines development of Qlik Sense apps and stimulates collaboration between developers. Platform Manager enforces your Development and Promotion process resulting in less mistakes. Qlik Sense servers are automatically synchronized by Platform Manager making the latest versions of the Qlik Sense app directly accessible to testers and Business users. Dependencies with QVD’s, Excel sheets or Text files are immediately visible to everyone. Restoring a previous dashboard version or entire release including dependencies takes a single click.
Data Lineage: Making Every Change Traceable
Platform Managers Data Lineage shows the entire stack of dependencies between QVD’s or other data files and all different levels of Qlik Sense app’s your company might have. This makes it easy to determine the impact of changing one of the links in the entire chain of QVD’s and QVF’s. Qlik Sense Developers and Testers benefit from the Difference Analyses that gives them insight in their own changes as well as changes made by other developers or even by other companies. Knowing that a script has changed makes testers look more closely if the data presented is still correct and reliable! Platform Manager provides an easy way to differentiate between the changes made by your staff and changes made by partners. Making every change traceable to who, when and what, Platform Manager ensures compliance with government and enterprise regulations such as SOX, HIPAA and Basel III. For auditing purposes, it is an invaluable tool to have the complete life-cycle information archived for every QlikView and Qlik Sense application that ever existed.
Guaranteeing Quality Through Data Governance
Each BI Solution eventually consists of 2 major components: Data and the BI Dashboard.
While Data governance is often covered with 3rd party products, application governance is hardly ever really handled at all. Of course this is a relatively new market, but the results of your BI Dashboards are for a large part based on expressions, scripts, calculations that are created by Qlik Sense Developers. What mechanism do you have in place to guarantee quality, to check consistency and to enforce your Business Rules? How do you ensure the latest version has been fully tested before it’s being made available to your business users? Wouldn’t the lack of all these features constitute a big gap in your quality control procedures?
From Raw To ReadyIncreasing User Adoption with guided analytics
Well organized and trustworthy data is essential for any downstream visualizations or self-service analytics. However, traditional self-service analytics can often require IT support and a deep understanding of the underlying database in order to assemble reports. While self-service is certainly a valued goal of any data solution, SME's Guided Analytics approach offers our clients more flexibility and control than traditional reports and dashboards. A guided approach makes it truly possible to understand the entire story revolving around the communications life cycle.
Static Visualizations And Traditional BI Are Not Enough
With a traditional BI, you only get a partial story based on the preconceived ideas the developer had around how data should be related. This means you may get some idea of what’s happening, but not the full picture, and no understanding of why things are happening.
For user adoption to rise, individuals need the ability to remain curious and to ask follow-up questions. This leads to a more complete picture of how data is truly related. And sometimes all it takes is a simple keyword search.
DataOps Drives Insights
As we mentioned above, DataOps for Analytics is a methodology similar to DevOps where leaner and more agile solutions allow for faster time from data ingestion to insight. Here are just a few of the pain points we have been able to solve for our clients:
All of their data is trusted and easily viewable inside Qlik Sense
With 24/7 access to their data, data analysts of any skill level can load, access, prepare and analyze data in minutes without ever needing to contact IT.
Collaboration Became a Breeze
With true data democratization in place, every stakeholder and end-user was capable of confidently collaborating since they had the peace of mind knowing the data was not dirty to being with. Plus, SME helped establish enhanced communication Qlik solutions like Insight Bot, Alerting, and NPrinting.
AI-Enabled Automation Means Uncovering Hidden Insights
From offering the best chart solutions to identifying outliers and anomalies, when the data is trustworthy from the beginning, the power of AI becomes exponential.
Data Literacy For All Means Everyone Can Ask Questions and Get Data-Driven Answers
With old systems, data access was restricted and heavily siloed. This made it impossible for the end-users who were asking the questions to get accurate and timely answers. And when answers are possible, solutions are found. This increases user adoption and SME ensures any investment has a solid return on investment.
More Customized Visualization Options Improve User Satisfaction
Not every client wants or needs a Ghant Chart, but when you do, it is nice to know it is available and highly customizable. That is the power of having Vizlib's product enhancements at your fingertips. From enhanced KPIs to best-in-class financial reports, to easy writeback options, SME's deployment of Vizlib suite of solutions has clients asking for more.
RAW DATA TO POWERFUL INSIGHT SOLUTIONS

Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is a complete data analytics platform that sets the benchmark for a new generation of analytics. ...

Qlik NPrinting
Power up your analytics with flexible, dynamic reports. Take your reports beyond a simple, one-dimensional page. ...

Qlik GeoAnalytics
Powerful map visualizations and location-based analytics for Qlik Sense. ...

Qlik Insight Bot
Working with analytics has always meant interacting visually. But what if you could just talk to your analytics directly? With Qlik Insight Bot you can. It is AI-powered conversational analytics. ...

Qlik Alerting
Qlik Alerting is an intelligent alerting platform for Qlik Sense®, providing sophisticated, data-driven alerts that help users more proactively monitor and manage their business. ...

Vizlib
Go beyond native Qlik Sense. Unlock the true power of your data with interactive data visualizations, self-service solutions, and game-changing writeback capabilities. ...
Qlik Sense
With its one-of-a-kind associative analytics engine, sophisticated AI, and high-performance cloud platform, you can empower everyone in your organization to make better decisions daily, creating a truly data-driven enterprise.
- Explore without boundaries
- Create analytics faster
- Let AI amplify your mind
- Share and go mobile
- Build, extend, embed
- Scale across the cloud
Qlik NPrinting
NPrinting empowers organizations to create, manage, and share great-looking reports, fast, using data and analytics from Qlik Sense® for maximum value.
Create Awesome Reports
Combine multiple analytics sources to create high-resolution reports in all popular formats.
Manage reports from a single platform
Bring together your analytics and reporting, securely and at scale.
Share reports directly or publish them
Get others' attention with multiple delivery channels as well as on-demand reporting and self-service subscription.
data to insightQlik GeoAnalytics
Qlik GeoAnalytics not only provides comprehensive mapping capabilities but also moves beyond visualization with built-in spatial analysis support for a broad range of advanced geoanalytic use cases to help reveal crucial geospatial information and expose hidden geographic relationships.
High Performance, Interactive Mapping
Easily create maps using automatic geo-data lookup and then overlay them with different visualizations.
- Be more productive with on-the-fly location lookup capabilities
- Improve understanding by exploring all geo information along with any relationships within one map visualization
- Eliminate the overhead and expense of maintaining and managing access to a separate mapping database
Gain geospatial insight
With the ability to quickly show cartographic information, users can gain insight into patterns not easily interpreted through tables or charts to better understand the whole story that lives within their data.
- Go beyond map visualizations to understand and analyze geospatial relationships
- Efficiently access, visualize and analyze any existing geospatial related data and applications
- Gain insight into patterns not easily interpreted through tables or charts
Broad location-related use cases
With a full spectrum of mapping and geospatial capabilities that share a common set of tools and technologies, Qlik GeoAnalytics can meet the needs of a wide variety of location-related use cases.
- Deliver mapping and location-based analytics to every user throughout the organization and beyond to one’s ecosystem
- Flexibility to implement Qlik GeoAnalytics as a fully hosted solution, a completely on-premise implementation or a combination of the two
- Provide credibility and domain expertise to a customer’s geospatial engagement
Qlik Insight Bot
Qlik Insight Bot offers a fast and easy way to ask questions and discover insights using natural language. It’s available right in Qlik Sense and through popular tools such as Slack, Skype, and Microsoft Teams. With each question, it instantly surfaces relevant charts and insights, including key drivers, comparisons, predictions, and more. And its self-learning AI makes the system progressively smarter.
Bridge the gap between conversational and visual analytics
Conversational analytics provide a quick and easy way to ask and answer questions. But often, new scenarios arise where visual discovery offers a better path to insight. Unlike standalone NLP analytics products, Qlik Insight Bot is fully integrated with Qlik Sense, allowing users to seamlessly move between conversational and visual analytics. The Qlik® Associative Engine lets users interact conversationally and dive directly into visual analysis to explore further, without losing context. It’s the best of both worlds.
Data to InsightQlik Alerting
With Qlik Alerting, organizations can manage by exception, increasing the value of analytics by notifying users of potential issues, helping them immediately analyze further, and prompting action based on insight.
Stay informed with powerful, data-driven alerts
Create alerts that go way beyond simple KPI thresholds. Qlik Alerting features advanced statistical calculation and trending that easily spots outliers and anomalies, comparisons and complex nested alert logic, and the ability to drill into and evaluate individual dimension values. And unlike other products, Qlik Alerting is data-driven, not based on visualizations, giving you the freedom to monitor all your data without limitations.
Data to InsightVizlib
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Vizlib Library
Vizlib Library is the most powerful visual analytics product for Qlik Sense. Leveraging a no-code approach and an incredibly intuitive user experience, BI teams can save countless development hours and deliver solutions that take organizations from data reporting to data storytelling in no time.
- Vizlib Templates - Design, save and share branded chart designs with your teams.
- Integrated Advanced Analytics - Run forecasts and cluster analysis in Qlik at the click of a button.
- Vizlib Actions- Create a guided analytics experience with a vast list of predefined actions.
- Vizlib Viztips - Insert customized, dynamic charts in your tool-tips to create an intuitive, in-context drill-down experience on hover.
Self Service
Self Service is the ultimate ad-hoc reporting solution for Qlik Sense. Rather than catering to one group of users only, Vizlib Self-Service will empower your organization to create a secure data sandbox. This way, all types of users—from largely non-technical people to super users—will be able to explore their data independently and discover meaningful insights faster.
- Vizlib Analytic Search - Analytic Search for Custom Report enables fast, easy access to your data. The familiar web-like search interface makes data exploration simple and intuitive. You can query your dataset by typing or speaking (much like a Google search), but within a governed dataset in Qlik Sense.
- Customizable Preset Themes - Quickly and easily spruce up your reports with fully customizable Preset Themes for Vizlib Custom Report. With a library of stylish templates at your fingertips, you can produce visually stunning reports that integrate seamlessly with your brand or interface
- Vizlib Actions - Easily convert interesting data discoveries into various types of visualizations for more meaningful insights at a glance. And if needed, export them to new applications or sheets at a click.
Vizlib Finance
Vizlib Finance elevates your financial reporting in Qlik Sense to the next level. Level-up with more visual power, integrated comments and a faster, smoother journey to financial insights. A quick and intuitive development process, supported by advanced formatting and customization capabilities, enables slick P&Ls and balance sheets that align with industry standards, and your CFO’s.
Gantt
Vizlib Gantt is the most intuitive project planning timeline tool for Qlik Sense. It lets you plan, organize, and visualize your processes in Qlik Sense. Incredibly intuitive, Vizlib Gantt comes jam-packed with advanced capabilities to help you keep projects on track, optimize resources, and forecast accurately.
- Project Planning - Stay on top of things. Keep track of project progress using dynamic markers or milestones and maintain a 360-view of the entire project timeline.
- Resource Planning - Know who's busy, when and why. Know where your resources are allocated, who's got the bandwidth to step in to help and which tasks are stalling due to poor resource management.
- Looking at the Big Picture - Produce a visual sequence of events. Long-term projects that have lots of moving parts can be particularly challenging to deliver on time, on budget and without incidents.
Collaboration
Harness the power of collaborative analytics and writeback capabilities to action, edit and capture your data in Qlik Sense. Vizlib Collaboration is the most comprehensive full-cycle collaboration layer for your analytics solutions. It’s designed to support your entire insights-to-action journey in Qlik Sense: from team discussions and insight sharing in real-time to workflows and data editing and adding on the fly. Writeback capabilities empower you to go beyond just reporting in Qlik—you’re now able to close the analytics loop in published Qlik apps by linking up your business tools and streamlining your workflows.
- Vizlib Writeback Table - Read-only dashboards are a thing of the past. With the Vizlib Writeback Table, you can easily edit, update and comment on data points or entire rows directly in your dashboards, while remaining in the analysis flow. It’s a little like spreadsheets in Qlik Sense, but a lot more powerful, as it lets you correct your data, insert new information, adjust numbers and create new data segmentation.
- Vizlib Input Form - Vizlib Input Form lets you capture user input and enter new data points into your published Qlik Sense apps. And connecting to endpoints using REST, the Vizlib Input Form can send dynamic data to almost any business tool—from another system, like your CRM, to email or Slack or an output file (like .csv or .qvf).
- Vizlib Teamwork - Vizlib Teamwork is all about collective intelligence and bringing your team and data together in Qlik Sense. Users can easily kick-off discussions right in their dashboards, call attention to interesting data points with contextualized comments and share their view of data with other people on the team.
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