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DATA S H E E TDATA INTEG R ATIONEnablingAnalytics withTrusted, BusinessReady DataQlik Catalog Q LI K .CO M
Q LI K C ATA LO GWhen you empower your businesswith on-demand access to analyticsready data, you accelerate discoveryand people get answers faster. QlikCatalog is a modern enterprise datamanagement solution that simplifiesand speeds up how you catalog,manage, prepare, and deliver yourtrustworthy, actionable data tobusiness users across your enterprise.Qlik Catalog builds a secure, enterprise-scale repository of all the data your business has available foranalytics, giving your data consumers a single, go-to catalog to find, understand, and gain insights fromany underlying enterprise data source. The solution’s data preparation and metadata tools streamlinethe transformation of raw data into analytics-ready assets, while the product’s Smart Data Catalog andgraphical user interface (GUI) help people easily discover and select whatever data they need. Built on aplatform of hardened data security and featuring governance capabilities, you can easily integrate QlikCatalog with any of your other data management tools to gain enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, andperformance.Data Agility and Scale for Next-Generation AnalyticsAll Your Data in One Simplified ViewWith Qlik Catalog, data consumers across your organization get on-demand accessto business-ready data through a data marketplace, which is an integrated, secure,enterprise data catalog. Flexible options let you decide what data gets copied intoQlik Catalog collection and what stays in place, while still ensuring all data in thecollection is fully documented in the Smart Data Catalog. Support for on-premises,cloud-based, or a hybrid deployment approach, lets you choose where you want tosource prepare, and deliver your data.Enabling Analytics with Trusted, Business-ready Data2
Actionable Data, On-DemandEnterprise-Grade Data ManagementQlik Catalog is a self-service platform, and theFor your marketplace to scale, enterprise policies,data you manage in it is always transparent,such as data protection and appropriate use, needtrustworthy, and business-ready for discovery.to be in place at all times. Qlik Catalog facilitates theData validation, profiling, and qualityuse of metadata to capture, enforce, and monitormeasures document the exact content anddata policies and usage from the time data entersquality of each data source, while easy-to-useyour marketplace. Qlik Catalog delivers on thedata preparation tools let your users quicklydata marketplace vision by ensuring that your datapromote data from raw to ready to build-marketplace includes the full range of essentialyour-own discovery-ready datasets. With Qlikenterprise-grade data management capabilities,Catalog, analytics-ready data is available on-including robust security, governance, performance,demand, allowing data analysts, downstreaminteroperability, scalability, and reliability.applications, algorithms, or your other dataconsumers to find and begin using new data inminutes, not months.By preserving and cataloging new datasetsMetadata Makesit Possibleand data preparation flows as they’reMetadata plays a central role in Qlik Catalog,generated, Qlik Catalog empowers your usersfar beyond simply documenting data withto reuse and build on previously created assetssimple cataloging or classification. In Qlikin the marketplace. Greater reuse lowers dataCatalog, metadata — captured in a Smartpreparation costs and speeds delivery of newData Catalog — drives the enterprise datadata to your data consumers. Your IT experts,management process and many of Qlikdata stewards, and business users can makeCatalog’s key capabilities. Metadata is used todata collections easier to understand andstructure, document, secure, and manage datamore useful by sharing their insights regardingcollection, ensuring you have a well-governedparticular datasets using business metadata,marketplace (rather than a swamp). IT teams,tags, and blog fields as well as standard anddata stewards, and data consumers access andcustom-defined properties.use metadata through the Qlik Catalog’s GUI toReuse and Collaborationfind, understand, enrich, and work with datain the marketplace. And data operations teamsuse Qlik Catalog’s metadata APIs to automatethe integration of Qlik Catalog workflows withother enterprise schedulers, applications, orrepositories at scale.3Enabling Analytics with Trusted, Business-ready Data
Core CapabilitiesOnboard DataQlik Catalog automatically profiles and documents the exact content, structure, andquality of your enterprise data as it is brought into the data marketplace from any andall sources. As part of the onboarding process, Qlik Catalog generates rich metadata,allowing your new data sources to be added into the Qlik Smart Data Catalog. You alsochoose whether the data is added to the Qlik Catalog data storage layer or just keptat the source. Either way, users have full access to the rich data profiles in the catalog.Built-in loaders simplify the onboarding process and support a wide variety of sourcetypes and locations, including RDBMS, mainframe applications, flat files, JSON, XML,Parquet, Avro, Qlik QVD files, AWS S3, Azure ADLS/WASB, and Kafka queues.Enrich the CatalogQlik Catalog builds a Smart Data Catalog that documents every aspect of the data anddata management process. As your users search and explore the catalog, technical,business, and operational metadata makes each data element understandable,transparent, trustworthy, and actionable.Prepare the DataQlik Catalog makes your data business-ready by preparing and enhancing it with datastandardization, cleansing, transformation, and protection measures. Starting with theclean, well-documented “raw” data created through Qlik Catalog’s onboard process,your users can easily standardize, enhance, blend, and filter data using Qlik Catalog’sdrag-and-drop interface — no coding needed. This enables a wide range of users, frombusiness users to data scientists, to access the data they need on demand and createdata sets that perfectly match their unique analytic requirements.Shop and PublishQlik Catalog makes data available for easy, secure consumption by all types ofenterprise data users. It supports one-time exports and the recurring, automatedpublishing of bespoke data sets to downstream data consumers, including data scienceor analytic platforms, applications (including Qlik Sense), or cloud data stores. Simpleintegration with workflow schedulers and built-in event logging and notifications allowQlik Catalog jobs to be seamlessly integrated into your broader dataflow and applicationintegration schemes. Sensitive fields are obfuscated automatically, so data security isenforced, and Qlik Catalog allows you to specify record layout specs, file format, andmore.Enabling Analytics with Trusted, Business-ready Data4
Modern Data Management, Built for the EnterpriseQlik Catalog is a Java-based software solution that runs on top of modern data stores and computerplatforms, including Hadoop, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Whileleveraging these platforms for data storage and compute power, Qlik Catalog gives you additional layersof functionality to onboard, discover, prepare, and deliver trustworthy, actionable enterprise data to yourdata consumers. The solution also contains a common framework of services to support integrated datamanagement, including security, data governance, and metadata management — all services that enablea lights-out operational data-as-a-service platform. Qlik Sense User Interface and ModulesMetadata RepositoryAll Qlik Catalog features — including dataQlik Catalog’s metadata repository is a relationalonboarding, cataloging, preparation, shopping,database that manages and maintains all theand publishing — are accessed through anmetadata collected and generated along everyintuitive, browser-based GUI. Any GUI actionsstep of your enterprise data management process.also direct activity in the metadata repositoryIt’s the secure hub for exchanging metadata withand services layer.other applications and environment modules thatleverage or collect metadata.Common Security and Governance FrameworkQlik Catalog ServicesQlik Catalog includes a common framework ofA Java-based, metadata-driven system, Qlik Catalogsecurity, governance, and metadata capabilitiestakes action on data, such as ingestion (whichthat protect data, manage your user accessincludes automated validation, profiling, and historyprivileges, and track your users’ activity at allmanagement), metadata creation and management,times. Consistent application of a unified set ofand data preparation. Actions are executed in thedata management practices simplifies platformunderlying data storage and compute infrastructureadministration and ensures data security andlayer, making Qlik Catalog Services extremelygovernance at scale.lightweight.Enabling Analytics with Trusted, Business-ready Data5
Accelerate Your Transition to Modern Data ManagementQlik Catalog makes providing your business users with analytics-ready data fast and easy. It allows morepeople in your organization to use analytics to generate new insights that transform your business.Use cases:Agile AnalyticsAccelerate discovery withself-service access tobusiness-ready dataEnterprise Data On-DemandProvide your business withanalytics-ready enterprisedata anytime through a moderndata management platformFaster Data PreparationMigrate from ETL to a speedier,modern data preparation anddelivery approachData GovernanceEnablementDeliver well-governeddata to your businessMainframe Data forModern AnalyticsModernize complexCOBOL-based data setsCatalog & Share Qlik QVD FilesEasily discover and distributeQVD file data with anyapplication, not just Qlik SenseAbout QlikQlik’s vision is a data-literate world, one where everyone can use data to improve decision-making and solve theirmost challenging problems. Only Qlik offers end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics solutions that helporganizations access and transform all their data into value. Qlik helps companies lead with data to see more deeply intocustomer behavior, reinvent business processes, discover new revenue streams, and balance risk and reward. Qlik doesbusiness in more than 100 countries and serves over 50,000 customers around the world.qlik.com 2020 QlikTech International AB. All rights reserved. All company and/or product names may be trade names,trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated.QLKCATALOG042720-MD
3 Enabling Analytics with Trusted, Business-ready Data Actionable Data, On-Demand Qlik Catalog is a self-service platform, and the data you manage in it is always transparent, trustworthy, and business-ready for discovery. Data validation, profiling, and quality measures document the exact c
