QlikTech Acquires Data Management Co Expressor Software

QlikTech provider of user-driven Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, announced its acquisition of Expressor Software, a Burlington, Massachusetts-based data management software company and QlikTech Qonnect partner. QlikTech acquired Expressor’s data management solution to help facilitate the expansion of QlikView deployments to aid the making of better decisions with all of the critical IT security and governance.

Accelerating Data Governance For The New Enterprise

As enterprise business discovery momentum has increased, the need for to describe data consistently and then reuse it to speed up deployment of additional applications has grown. To expand the use of QlikView’s Business Discovery platform, a metadata intelligence solution will help IT departments to know what data is being used and how it is being used (data lineage), while ensuring consistency and appropriate reuse of common data definitions (data governance).

“With this acquisition we are taking business discovery to the next level, offering a new breed of rapid, iterative metadata intelligence that delivers control at the core and flexibility at the edges of an organization,” said Anthony Deighton, QlikTech Chief Technology Officer.

Descriptive Rather Than Prescriptive Approach

With the practical data governance as-you-deploy approach, customers describe data consistently as they build QlikView apps rather than being locked into doing it all upfront with a prescriptive semantic layer.

With the QlikView Expressor active metadata intelligence solution customers can:

• Capture and manage the semantics of data while building QlikView applications to efficiently reuse data definitions

• Deploy quickly across the enterprise by establishing a repeatable and consistent view of common business and data definitions

• Provide users and IT with increased confidence in data through data lineage analysis

• Realize value from ‘big data’ by handling large volumes of diverse information sources

• Enhance QlikView’s position at the core of information architecture by addressing all data flow requirements into and out of QlikView

“Expressor fits squarely in our acquisition strategy. We are acquiring complementary, tuck-in technology that will enhance the value we provide to our customers as we further develop and bring to market these solutions. We are also adding more than 20 outstanding people, primarily software engineers, expanding our R&D skill set,” said Lars Björk, Chief Executive Officer of QlikTech.