Today we announced that Qlik has officially joined the Snowflake Partner Connect Program. Woot! But, you’re probably thinking: “What does that mean to me?” Simply stated, Snowflake users, whether bona fide subscribers or trial participants, now have an incredibly easy path to load data into their cloud data warehouses. We’re offering a 14-day Qlik Replicate test drive that has everything you need to quickly ingest data into your data warehouse. The Qlik Replicate test drive runs in the cloud, includes an example source database with sample data and supports Snowflake on AWS or Azure. Just navigate over to Snowflake’s Partner Connect portal from within the Snowflake UI.
Once there, press the Qlik tile to begin.
We understand that you might be unfamiliar with Qlik
Replicate, so we’ve packaged a well-documented tutorial with sample data so you
can quickly get up to speed. Bite-sized exercises walk you through configuring a
data source, choosing data subsets for ingesting into Snowflake, initiating the
data loading process and monitoring the result.
However, the tutorial doesn’t stop there. We all know that
accurate data warehouse reporting relies upon freshness of data it contains and
so the Qlik Replicate test drive does two unique things.
No other “data loader” can do that!
Qlik Replicate isn’t just another data loader that is based on batch ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. Qlik Replicate uses log-based change data capture (CDC) to ensure that data in the Snowflake warehouse never lags the current state and is always up-to date.
In addition, Qlik Replicate is also easier to deploy and manage, as it doesn’t require the use of software agents like many ETL services to deliver data from on premise systems. In fact, Qlik Replicate’s agent-less CDC can stream data from over 70 sources including SAP, mainframes, relational databases and data lakes in real-time. We’ve got a great eBook called “Streaming Change Data Capture” that serves as a practical guide for enterprise architects, data managers and CIOs alike. Click here to download your copy today.
Qlik’s support for Snowflake doesn’t stop at real-time data ingestion. We’ve got a full range of functionality in our Qlik Data Integration platform (QDI) that grows as you adopt Snowflake and roll out bigger footprints into production. In fact, we’ve seen this pattern so many times that it’s worth describing below:
To sum up, you may not have all these requirements at once, but it’s highly likely you’ll encounter each need at some stage. For more information visit out our dedicated Snowflake partner page.
I started this post with the exciting news that Qlik had joined the Snowflake Partner Connect program and ended it by explaining the many ways in which Qlik supports a Snowflake implementation – from continually ingesting data sources, to visualizing Snowflake usage, and everything else in between. But, let’s remember: a data warehouse implementation is a journey. And, we know that every journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. So, take the first step and click our tile in the Snowflake Partner Connect portal today.