Solution easily automates and streamlines workflows between SaaS and Qlik Cloud apps to drive action from 'insights'
Qlik announced the release of Qlik Application Automation, a solution "no code", designed to drive actions from contextual insights through workflows streamlined and optimized between SaaS and Qlik Cloud apps. You workflows Qlik Application Automation's automated tools can trigger alerts, activate processes and improve collaboration, reducing time to value.
Based on the Blendr.io acquisition, the new solution helps deliver Qlik's vision of Active Intelligence, in which technology and processes trigger immediate, up-to-date and reliable data-driven actions in real-time to accelerate the value of business across the entire data and analytics chain.
“SaaS application and the expansion of related data has dramatically increased the demands of manual integration, limiting the ability of analytics and IT teams to respond to real-time data events and lessening efforts to achieve active intelligence,” said James Fisher, director of product at Qlik.
"With the approach "no-code", where there's no need for programming, Qlik Application Automation's drag and drop aids in automating tasks and workflows between Qlik Cloud and hundreds of SaaS apps. Teams can more easily create scalable connections and data flows that drive action and reduce time to value data across the organization,” he added.
The report prepared by Statista, May 2021, shows that SaaS applications were responsible for 70% of softwares used globally in 2020, with an average of 80 SaaS applications per organization compared to an estimated 8 in 2015.
The Qlik Application Automation solution creates a seamless connection between the industry's leading analytics platform and the third-party SaaS applications that drive every business. With automated environments, applications and workflows, IT and data teams can augment data-driven actions with context-sensitive insights from across the organization.
With Qlik Application Automation's reusable templates, teams can ensure consistency and increase productivity, especially for tasks such as analytic DevOps, application publishing, and application delivery. insights from Qlik to collaboration tools such as Slack and MS Teams.
According to the company, Qlik Application Automation reduces the time needed to schedule repetitive job tasks. back office and allows more time for teams to provide important analytics on real time like:
- Connectivity and Smart Tiles – Quickly connect to industry-leading SaaS apps such as Salesforce, Slack and MS Teams, represented as Smart Tiles, eliminating the need to technically understand an app's API.
- Code-free user interface (UI) – simple for business users, and also offers advanced features like conditions, variables, loops, data mapping, error handling and templates that IT specialists can use to accelerate flow development.
- Qlik Cloud Native Integration – Easily build flows that leverage Qlik's native APIs to automate your analytic DevOps processes.
- Dynamic Automation Triggers – Enable automation flows from a variety of engines to meet specific business needs. Trigger on-demand automations, use webhooks to activate event flows or schedule automations to run at specific times.
Central and runtime management – manage and monitor your automations running through the Qlik Cloud to ensure flows are on track and meet enterprise-wide SLAs.”
