Qlik announced it has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud with a new joint offering that allows customers to enable real-time data warehousing of SAP data. The solution is optimized to support SAP data on Google Cloud and Google BigQuery and carries Qlik’s brand new ‘SAP on Google Cloud Expertise” solution. Google Cloud customers can now use the company’s integrated solution they can deploy with Qlik Data Integration. It gives customers an automated real-time data pipeline through Qlik Data Integration to gather and automate the delivery of analytics-ready SAP data to BigQuery. It accepts data from SAP Hana, SAP application servers, and SAP legacy environments.
The newly launched solution from Qlik for Google Cloud enables customers to accelerate and simplify the delivery of SAP data for real-time analytics on BigQuery. The integrated solution provides customers an automated, real-time data pipeline through Qlik Data Integration to ingest and automate the delivery of analytics-ready SAP data into BigQuery – whether it’s from legacy SAP environments, SAP HANA or SAP application servers.
“Organizations increasingly need to drive business value from their SAP data, and we’re excited to partner with Qlik to help them do so with Google Cloud,” said Manvinder Singh, Director, Partnerships at Google Cloud. “Customers can leverage this solution from Qlik to accelerate the migration of data from SAP to Google Cloud and BigQuery, and ultimately to drive faster, data-informed decision-making.”
According to Qlik, the benefits of the new solution being offered include:
Rapid on-boarding and accelerated streaming of SAP data into Google Cloud Real-time and continuous data replication from SAP applications to BigQuery SAP data replication with minimal overhead on the SAP systems Support for a broad set of SAP application data sources in a single solution Automation of data integration reducing resource requirements for initial delivery and on-going maintenance
“Cloud data warehouses like BigQuery can enable customers to unlock value from their core business data,” said Itamar Ankorion, SVP Technology Alliances at Qlik. “As a premier partner and certified for our expertise on SAP data, the integration of Google Cloud and Qlik will help with real-time extraction and delivery of any type of data for analysis. This joint solution will help customers see increased benefit from BigQuery with wider use of SAP data alongside other data sources for impact across their organization.”