Qlik as an Analytics Platform

The Meaning of Analytics

At Horsa, we understand that the power of analytics lies in your ability to discover every possible connection within your data. Data analytics involves inspecting your data to discover useful information. With analytics, we are removing the noise to see the clear signals in the data. However, most companies don’t know how to harness their data and therefore all that crucial information. The associative data indexing made available in Qlik’s Analytics Platform exposes relationships in complex, multi-source data sets that would be hidden in hierarchical or query-based approaches. By seeing all of the connections among the values in your data visually, your enterprise will have the ability to make big decisions faster and with confidence.

Qlik Analytics Platform

Qlik supplies enterprises with a single visual analytics platform to extend and enhance the use of Qlik across their organisations - and beyond. Through high-powered, open, and modern APIs, the Qlik Analytics Platform provides the Qlik Associative Engine and visualisations to application and web developers, allowing you to see all the connections among all the values in all your data. The platform is designed to allow application and web developers to easily and flexibly embed powerful Qlik visual analytics capabilities right into their own applications. By incorporating compelling visual analytics that are integrated within company solutions, your business can make significant decisions based on historical data while continuing to provide the most value to your customers.

Visualisation Technology

Qlik’s Visualisation Technology is optimised to incorporate open-source technologies like Python, R, and D3, so developers can create custom visualisations and extensions in a smart and governed way. Some of Horsa’s favourite features of Qlik’s Visualisation Technology include:

Embedding the Analytics

Qlik easily allows analytics to be embedded into any workflow or business process application, and it permits the extension of visual analytics into partner portals and customer websites. The Qlik Analytics Platform offers a single governance framework to allow for common security, manageability, and reusability. Qlik’s approach covers a wide spectrum of analytics use cases, giving your organisation the ability to extend the Qlik experience into any application, with any type of visualisation.

For instance, asset management company Arabesque needed a visualisation tool that integrated with their complex company systems, while presenting the information in a meaningful format on any device at any time. Horsa, working with Qlik, was able to construct a beautiful and functional Qlik Sense mashup on the QAP platform which applies across the Asset Management sector. The result: the Arabesque S-Ray application, which looks beneath a company’s surface by assessing its extra-financial performance, helping us better understand its value to society. In addition, it allows anyone to monitor the sustainability of over 4,000 of the world’s largest corporations. The S-Ray application provides a free version for those who want to navigate Arabesque’s investment universe and a premium version for those who wish to use their service and create an active investment portfolio. Through Horsa’s understanding of Qlik’s offering, we can customise and adapt the platform to get the best results for our clients. That’s why the S-Ray application is the face of Arabesque’s vision of sustainable investment.

Integration

Qlik offers access to a set of industry-standard, open, and modern programming interfaces (like JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and Node.js) which allow you to easily create and integrate visual analytics into any application. Under Horsa’s guidance and expertise, the Qlik experience can be introduced into any program, with any kind of visualisation, all done within a common governance and security configuration.

API

The Qlik Analytics Platform APIs were built using modern standards, which are designed to work with today’s most up-to-date web technologies. By directly accessing the same market-leading associative in-memory engine that’s used by all Qlik products, developers have great flexibility to build the exact solutions they need. Qlik provides a series of modern, open, and standard APIs like the Mashup API, Extensions API, Engine API, and back-end management APIs.

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