Qlik announced the acquisition of NodeGraph, a customisable metadata management solution, to help expand its analytics data pipeline capabilities with interactive data lineage, impact analysis and governance and rive “explainable BI”. Acquiring NodeGraph accelerates Qlik’s vision of Active Intelligence, where technology and processes trigger immediate action from real-time, up-to-date and trusted data.
Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik, said: “As enterprises activate data and increase its use for real-time decision-making, it’s crucial that data be timely, trustworthy and consistent across the entire organization.”
“NodeGraph’s interactive data lineage, impact analysis and governance capabilities make it crystal clear where data is coming from, how it was transformed and how trustworthy it is. This visibility provides every employee with confidence and trust in data, which is essential in creating a culture driven by Active Intelligence where data becomes part of every task.”
Both IT and business leaders need to collaborate and continually ensure that data is trustworthy and being used in a consistent and correct way by everyone to produce better and more timely decisions.
NodeGraph’s lineage and governance capabilities will expand Qlik’s ability to provide the data fabric that customers need to fully understand the data flowing through their analytics data pipelines.
NodeGraph’s unique field level lineage on specific data elements and their transformations helps identify “gold-standard” calculations and shows exactly where important metrics and KPIs come from, driving the notion of “explainable BI” across multiple versions of the truth.
