Qlik Connect

What is Qlik Connect?

Unlock critical business data

The typical enterprise hosts multiple platforms that contain data in different formats. When companies aggregate data into critical systems to support business decisions, they often face challenges if they don't have the right drivers at hand.

Organizations need the right tools to move applications to more modern platforms, access their data, and make it easily available for business use and analysis. Qlik Connect can help.

Universal access

Qlik Connect is an easy-to-use, standards-based solution that provides fast, easy, and cost-effective data access and availability. The result is continuous, real-time connectivity to a wide variety of relational and non-relational data sources.

• Access a diverse variety of enterprise data sources, including Windows, mainframes, and more. Qlik Connect drivers make these data sources accessible through Java, .NET, and Web applications, as well as reporting platforms, business intelligence, analytics, and data integration.
• Get a reliable and secure connection, providing protection against 'incorrect queries' and their impact on source systems.

Integration of mainframe and legacy system

Many organizations have spent decades developing and optimizing their IBM mainframe systems. Now, they are looking for ways to get new value with these investments with minimal cost and risk. Qlik Connect can help you reuse, redefine, and integrate this data to support new business and IT initiatives.

• Simplify and accelerate integration using our modular and comprehensive software suite for VSAM, IMS/DBand DB2 data, as well as IMS/TM applications.
• Get universal, service-oriented integration to simplify the two-way integration of old and new.
• Make a confident choice. Qlik's mainframe integration software has been deployed by companies around the world to accelerate integration projects, reduce risk, and reduce cost of ownership.

Use cases

Use Qlik Connect software to simplify and speed up:

• Direct data access to BI applications, portals, and more
• Integration with web applications
• Application integration and BPM
• Efficient data integration
• Data-driven business event detection

SOA Activation

Building a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a strategic initiative for many leading companies and serves as the foundation for building composite applications, orchestrating business processes, and creating a flexible, future-proof IT architecture.

• Qlik Connect provides integration software that enables rapid deployment of software solutions that make existing legacy applications and enterprise data part of an SOA.
• Enterprises can quickly redefine legacy business logic as Web services and create a service-oriented data layer.

Support matrix

By supporting virtually any data source across multiple platforms, Qlik Connect can help you:

• Reduce the overall costs of your real-time integration, service activation, migration, modernization, and other initiatives by standardizing a common software infrastructure technology.
• Minimize project risk by using a globally adopted software platform.

Drivers

Accelerate projects, optimize performance, and control costs.

• 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC drivers for relational and non-relational data sources

Qlik Connect ODBC drivers make enterprise data sources easily accessible to applications running on Windows, UNIX, and Linux and support common reporting, business intelligence, and data integration platforms.

• JDBC drivers for relational and non-relational data sources

Qlik Connect JDBC drivers make enterprise data sources easily accessible to any Java or J2EE application and support common reporting, business intelligence, and data integration platforms.

• Qlik Connect Driver SDK for standard SQL and XML access to proprietary data structures

The Qlik Connect Driver SDK makes the most of Qlik Connect's data connectivity capabilities by providing a rich framework. By implementing multiple APIs, you can get ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, and ADO. NET connectivity to your data.

• After a custom driver is created using the SDK, it provides universal connectivity. Drivers can be accessed instantly using Qlik ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB and ADO.NET.

Suppliers

Accelerate projects, optimize performance, and control costs.

OLE DB and ADO.NET providers for relational and non-relational data sources make enterprise data sources easily accessible to applications written in Visual Basic, ASP.NET, or C# and support common reporting tools, business intelligence, and data integration running on Windows, Microsoft, or other vendors.

Adapters

Qlik Connect application adapters for JCA and .NET simplify and accelerate application integration.

• Qlik Connect application adapters provide immediate, simple and fast integration with legacy applications and data sources on platforms ranging from Windows to mainframes, making deploying new projects and integrating existing systems fast, highly efficient, and cost-effective.
• Qlik Connect application adapters use direct configuration to expose existing applications as services that can be used seamlessly by Java, .NET, and Web applications, as well as leading application integration and business process management (BPM) platforms.
• Supported transaction managers include IMS/TM.
• Supported 3GL applications include COBOL, RPG, Microsoft COM, and other applications such as Basic, C, and Fortran.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

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