DATA PREPARATION
Prepare, Clean, and Transform Data Faster with Qlik's Data Preparation Platform
Power analytics with automated and governed data preparation. Automate workflows and deliver analytics-ready data across your business.
Shift time from data fixing to data analyzing. Enable teams to find, clean, and prepare data rapidly.
Accelerate data delivery
Reduce the time spent on manual data cleaning and formatting with automated profiling and transformation tools.
Empower business users
Provide self-service capabilities that allow analysts to prepare their own data within governed guardrails.
Ensure data quality
Embed quality checks and standardization rules directly into your preparation workflows for trusted outputs.
How Qlik's data preparation platform works
Step 1: Connect and ingest raw data
Step 2: Cleanse, standardize, and enrich automatically
Step 3: Model and prepare data for analytics
Why choose Qlik for data preparation?
Freedom for analysts, control for IT
Qlik allows business users to prepare data using intuitive visual tools while maintaining centralized security and governance policies.
Smarter data transformation
Leverage AI to automatically detect data types, suggest transformations, and identify quality issues, speeding up the prep cycle.
Complete visibility into data changes
Track every transformation applied to your data from source to consumption, ensuring full auditability and trust.
Key capabilities of Qlik's data preparation platform
Visual data profiling
Instantly visualize data distributions, outliers, and nulls to understand data health before you start working.
Smart data blending
Combine data from multiple sources with intelligent recommendations for join keys and relationships.
Automated cleansing rules
Apply standardization, deduplication, and formatting rules that run automatically as data updates.
Reusable transformation logic
Build preparation recipes once and reuse them across different datasets and pipelines.
Collaborative workspaces
Catalog integration
Automatically publish prepared datasets to the catalog for easy discovery by business users.
Trusted by leading enterprises worldwide
What our customers say
We needed to consolidate data in one place, from heterogeneous sources, updated in almost real-time. That’s what Qlik enables for us.
Connect to 500+ data sources with Qlik’s analytics integrations
SAP
Adobe
IBM
AWS
MySQL
Jira
Azure
MS SQL
Apache
Mongo DB
SAP
Adobe
IBM
AWS
MySQL
Jira
Azure
MS SQL
Apache
Mongo DB
SAP
Adobe
IBM
AWS
MySQL
Jira
Azure
MS SQL
Apache
Mongo DB
SAP
Adobe
IBM
AWS
MySQL
Jira
Azure
MS SQL
Apache
Mongo DB
SAP
Adobe
IBM
AWS
MySQL
Jira
Azure
MS SQL
Apache
Mongo DB
Oracle
Salesforce
Workday
Apache Iceberg
CircleCI
Zendesk
Snowflake
Databricks
OpenAI
Intuit
Oracle
Salesforce
Workday
Apache Iceberg
CircleCI
Zendesk
Snowflake
Databricks
OpenAI
Intuit
Oracle
Salesforce
Workday
Apache Iceberg
CircleCI
Zendesk
Snowflake
Databricks
OpenAI
Intuit
Oracle
Salesforce
Workday
Apache Iceberg
CircleCI
Zendesk
Snowflake
Databricks
OpenAI
Intuit
Oracle
Salesforce
Workday
Apache Iceberg
CircleCI
Zendesk
Snowflake
Databricks
OpenAI
Intuit
Resources
Data Preparation Platform FAQs
The platform is designed for both data engineers who need to build robust pipelines and business analysts who need self-service capabilities to prepare data for their specific reports.
Yes, Qlik's platform can ingest and prepare structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a wide variety of sources.
Absolutely. Once a preparation workflow (or "recipe") is defined, it can be scheduled to run automatically whenever new data is available.