Lavastorm for Qlik® Makes it Easy to Deliver Powerful Data Preparation, Advanced Analytics and Data Visualization to Everyone, Everywhere

Lavastorm, a leading data preparation and advanced analytics company, today announced the launch of its new self-service software designed specifically for Qlik users. Offered by monthly subscription, this powerful, yet simple solution will enable current and new Qlik customers to quickly build sophisticated, governed analytical flows that accelerate business insights and promote data confidence.

Lavastorm has been providing self-service data preparation capabilities to some of the largest enterprise companies for over a decade, enabling them to quickly access data and build analytic applications on their own. With Lavastorm for Qlik®, users have a cost effective tool that provides advanced analytic controls to help easily and quickly prepare, transform and publish insights directly into Qlik’s dashboards with a single click. The new software also includes 67 pre‐built custom libraries for script‐free analytic app building that allow users to edit and execute multiple analytic data flows simultaneously. The software also offers collaboration tools that enable users to create, reuse and share custom analytic functions or libraries, including advanced statistical and predictive analytic capabilities.

“Qlik remains committed to our visual analytics platform approach by working with members of our partner ecosystem to deliver joint solutions to the market, including applications, connectors and extensions for Qlik Sense and QlikView. With the intuitive self-service interface offered by our longstanding partner, Lavastorm, Qlik customers can extend and enhance their QlikView or Qlik Sense experience with a powerful, yet easy-to-use data preparation and advanced analytics product designed specifically for their broad user communities,” said Mike Foster, VP of Strategic Alliances.

“Our customers rely on interactive visualizations to give business users the power to explore data from all angles, and our customers have achieved success with using Lavastorm and Qlik in tandem to visualize multiple data sources and to answer more complex questions,” said Jan Sipek, CEO, Climber. “Lavastorm for Qlik will provide our customers with a strong data management and analytic foundation that gives them the speed and flexibility to address even the most complicated data integration and analysis challenges they face.”

Features of the new Lavastorm for Qlik®:

• Acquire Data
  • Any source, any format in a single easy-to-use tool
  • Assemble data from any financial, operational or enterprise data source to drive greater insights, instantly
• Prepare Data
  • Cleanse, match and enrich data
  • Prepare data for accuracy and greater confidence in your visualization
  • Build a powerful set of models and analytics to establish, maintain and share a consistent, systematic analyses framework
• Publish Data
  • Visualize in Qlik to share with anyone
  • Drive maximum impact from your visualizations and import your Lavastorm data flows directly into your Qlik dashboard
• Data Lineage
  • Provide traceability and Audit Trails – inspect the data sources and business logic behind the dashboard
  • Deliver a step-by-step flow of data analysis to show where data and logic is coming from during the data prep process

“Qlik has helped transform and drive the data visualization revolution in the self-service analytics market, and together with Lavastorm’s data preparation and predictive analytics capabilities, we can help our joint customers uncover insights that provide vital competitive advantages by empowering all users with the right tools to find the right answers fast,” said Peter Shields, Chief Executive Officer of Lavastorm.

The new product is powerful, yet simple to use. The basic out the box functionality makes it easy for users to perform mission-critical analysis with template-driven data flows that are simple to follow and trace back to original data sources. Lavastorm’s open architecture provides a full set of APIs that allow integration into most BI stacks and sales automation solutions such as Salesforce.com. Lavastorm also provides governance capabilities to ensure that data is not only accessible, but also has the necessary controls in place. To get up and running, users have access to premium support options including training and educational videos, live online training and on‐site, instructor led training.

Lavastorm for Qlik supports both Qlik Sense® and QlikView® products. To learn more about Lavastorm for Qlik, please visit our product page and start your analytic journey to data discovery.

About Qlik

Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in visual analytics. Its portfolio of products meets customers’ growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics. Approximately 37,000 customers rely on Qlik solutions to gain meaning out of information from varied sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik has offices around the world with more than 1700 partners covering more than 100 countries.

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About Lavastorm Analytics

Lavastorm accelerates and automates self-service data preparation and advanced analytics for the enterprise. Our software makes it easy to blend complex data from multiple sources to empower technical and non-technical users to quickly build governed analytic applications, as well as harness our robust predictive analytics capabilities. Lavastorm’s intuitive data flows, collaboration tools and extensive pre-built libraries enable our customers to deliver the fastest, most accurate insights to the business. The company’s proven technology is used by thousands of analysts at leading global companies to solve their complex, data-driven problems where speed and accuracy are mission-critical to maintain competitive advantage. Lavastorm is headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices throughout the world. For more information, please visit: http://www.lavastorm.com

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