Qlik Forts

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2021: Hybrid Cloud Analytics Launch

On October 26, 2021, the company Qlik announced the launch of Qlik Forts, a hybrid cloud service based on Qlik Cloud, which will expand the capabilities cloudy analysts of Qlik wherever stored. data The solution will help you implement the concept of Active Intelligence, providing analytics of the entire volume of data in full compliance with regulatory requirements.

Convenience of SaaS, flexibility of hybrid

Whether data is located locally, in a private or public cloud, Qlik Forts eliminates the need to move disparate local data for cloud analytics. This reduces costs, improves the performance of cloud services, and meets all management, policy, and legal requirements. Thanks to seamlessness and high speed in any cloud, Qlik Forts will accelerate the operation of relevant data - a key condition on the way to Active Intelligence, when technologies and processes start direct actions based on verified data in real time.

Keep your data local to you

"Companies can't always take full advantage of cloud analytics. Much of the data remains isolated due to regulatory and sovereign constraints, outbound data, computation costs, and complex coordination. All this prevents the business from using data and implementing the concept of Active Intelligence. Qlik Forts solves these problems. Unlike other analytics providers, Qlik does not need to move customer data to its cloud. Qlik Forts further increases this flexibility with the ability to immediately deploy Qlik cloud analytics near local data, taking into account current company investments in IT, corporate governance requirements, and multi-cloud strategies, " notes James Fisher, Qlik's product director.

Seamless experience across clouds

Qlik Forts is a hybrid cloud service available virtually both in the local environment and in any cloud anywhere in the world, including on platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. Forts, like other Qlik Cloud services, is managed by Qlik, which guarantees the availability of all current functionality. Qlik Forts can be installed both in the organization's network and behind the firewall. All applications, data connections, and data files used remain local to Forts, meeting any data hosting requirements.

"According to IDC research, about 80% of companies store data distributed in hybrid, local, and cloud environments. In the foreseeable future, storage management will be no less complex, with serious consequences. So, companies with disparately stored data report a low level of analytical literacy, less confidence in data and a lack of useful information, " notes, Dan Vesset vice president of IDC the analytics and management group. information

Since Qlik Forts is part of the Qlik Cloud, all users and administrators receive a single entry point and uniform seamless access to data and analytics. With Qlik Forts, anyone can access up-to-date cloud analytics anywhere in the world and in full compliance with internal schedules and data requirements.