The analytics market has gone from hot to scorching in the last 5 days - first with Google picking up Looker and now today with Tableau taking itself off the market and joining Salesforce. For anyone following the industry closely it’s no surprise, and I personally welcome the news.
Enterprises are sitting on mountains of data and are clamoring to make better strategic use of it across their business. That means being able to access, manage and analyze that data at scale and in real-time. Our recent moves with Attunity and Data Catalyst give us the only end-to-end platform in the analytics market, and now we stand alone as the largest independent modern analytics platform. That’s a big distinction for our current customers and prospects, and here’s why.
Having run large IT organizations, I know customers don’t want to go back to those days. Qlik’s value to customers is as strong as it’s ever been, and these deals shine a bright and positive light on how we’re truly different. Customers and prospects looking to move, integrate, manage and analyze their data across multiple clouds – including their own data centers – at enterprise scale and speed while putting your data where you want have a clear choice, and that’s Qlik.
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