12 Solutions to the Top Data Delivery Challenges

Delivering in-the-moment data

to inspire immediate action.
In the digital economy, agility is essential. The faster an organization can
respond to events as they evolve, the better it can compete. That means
delivering data to the right users as quickly as possible – all types of data,
whether historical or real-time, from any source at all.

Around the world, Qlik® is helping enterprises in every industry streamline,

accelerate and automate their data pipelines to deliver in-the-moment
data for immediate action. With the Qlik Data Integration Platform,
businesses have vastly improved the speed at which they deliver data,
the volume of data they deliver, the access they provide to users, and
the efficiency of the process.

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 CONTENT S

SPEED 4
Generali 5
USAA 6
Bank BTPN 7

VOLUME 8
Fanatics 9
Vanguard 10
Veritix (AXS) 11

ACCESS 12
Swiss Life 13
J.B. Hunt 14
Ewals Cargo Care 15

EFFICIENCY 16
Zurich Insurance 17
Aggreko 18
Airbus 19

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 SPEED
With Qlik, enterprises are reducing data delivery cycles from
days to seconds – without disrupting their production systems.

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 S PE E D
Generali slashes source-to-target
time to near-instant delivery.
The global insurance leader modernizes its data architecture –
and dramatically accelerates data delivery.
CHALLENGE
The Swiss arm of a global insurance
leader, Generali Switzerland
employs 1800 people and serves
1+ million customers. When
core legacy applications were
placing a drag on both channel
and customer-facing apps, the
company set out to modernize
their data architecture.
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SOLUTION
From the outset, there was a
great deal of data to replicate,
requiring significant integration.
The team developed a hybrid
connection platform powered by
Qlik and Confluent (Apache Kafka),
in part because the two solutions
work harmoniously together. Qlik
sits between the data sources
and target destinations, reading
the information and sending it to
Generali’s target of choice.
“
Data streaming with Qlik
means we can replicate
and stream data in just
a few seconds. This could
have taken days before.
It’s of significant value
to our business.”
THE RESULTS Christian Nicoll
Director of Platform Engineering & Operations
Source-to-target time has been Generali
reduced exponentially. Data is
extracted with no disruptions
to the business or applications.
A single version of data truth
is now available via many
applications and channels. And
with access to accurate, real-
time data, customer service and
Reduced
engagement have improved. source-to-target
from days to
< 10 seconds.
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 S PE E D
USAA replicates cloud data to provide
real-time access for on-prem apps.
Qlik makes it possible for the global financial services leader to use
a hybrid model.
CHALLENGE
Fortune 500 financial services
group USAA wanted to move its
compliance application platform
to the cloud. But some compliance
applications would need to remain
on-premises, and the cloud
platform didn’t have the APIs to
provide real-time data access. How
could USAA leverage the advantages
of the cloud while providing their
on-premises applications with
current information?
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SOLUTION
USAA undertook a comprehensive
review of possible solutions. Qlik
was found to be ideal because it
offers near real-time replication,
supports a wide range of data
formats, provides flexibility, and
delivers out-of-the-box monitoring
and alerting.
THE RESULTS
Qlik is an integral part of USAA’s
compliance platform and is
credited with enabling the company
to successfully implement its
first cloud-based data replication
solution. By replicating data from
the cloud to an on-premises
repository, USAA’s on-premises
applications continue to work as if
the data was never moved.
“
Thanks to Qlik, USAA
successfully implemented
its first cloud-based data
replication solution. It
works as if the compliance
database had never moved.”
Yuesheng Liu
Lead Software Engineer
USAA
12 million records
within two hours.
1.5 million
changed records replicated
every day.
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 S PE E D
Bank BTPN builds an enterprise data
hub to deliver data immediately.
In their quest to lead Indonesia’s digital banking transformation,
BTPN streams data for real-time responsiveness.
CHALLENGE
Bank BTPN had created a
successful digital banking app and
wanted to expand its functionality.
But because data was held in the
core banking system and remained
unprocessed until end-of-day, the
bank had no visibility into real-time
activity on the app. The team was
missing everything from customer
issues to sales opportunities.
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SOLUTION
BTPN built an enterprise data
hub using Qlik. Qlik simplifies the
massive, daily data ingestion into
big data platforms from thousands
of sources, including Oracle,
SQL, DB2, and MySQL. Real-time
ingestion is done through Apache
Kafka, relying on Qlik’s alert feature
in case of incidents, and change
data capture (CDC) enables real-
time analytics with less overhead.
“ Qlik enables real-time
ingestion of data from our
AS/400 environment, but
the real advantage is that
we can then gain instant
visibility to all the data in
one dashboard for real-
time action.”
THE RESULTS
Duddy Christian Hayanto
The availability of near-real- Head of Data Engineering
time data has enabled the bank Bank BTPN
to create a detailed picture of
every customer in the moment.
The speed of access to data has
transformed user productivity,
allowing agents to directly
engage with customers. And the
enterprise data hub relieves strain
< 1 second needed to
on the core banking system. retrieve customer data.
< 1 minute to replicate data
from core banking system to
enterprise data hub.
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 VOLUME
Qlik makes it possible to integrate massive stores of data – even in real time –
and deliver them for use in analytics.

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 V O LU M E
Fanatics enables real-time, actionable
insights into customer behavior.
A global sports merchandise leader accelerates data loading and replication
from on-premises to the cloud.
CHALLENGE
Fanatics has the world’s largest
selection of fan merchandise, with
hundreds of thousands of SKUs;
the transactional data generated
in their online warehouse is
enormous. To take their business
intelligence to the next level, the
team decided to move their on-
premises data into a repository
in the cloud.
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SOLUTION
For cloud storage and data analysis,
Fanatics selected AWS. For data
migration, they identified Qlik as the
Amazon Partner Network partner of
choice, enabling users to accelerate
data transfer to, from, and across
Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions.
Fanatics is now able to analyze the
massive volumes of data from their
transactional, e-commerce, and
back-office systems – and to make
this data available immediately
for analytics.
THE RESULTS
With Qlik, Fanatics moves huge
volumes of data in real time from
SQL Server, Oracle, and other
systems to Amazon S3. As a result,
they can get actionable, real-
time insights into key customer
behavior and purchasing patterns
and share these findings with
employees globally.
“
Qlik has provided new
efficiencies by making our
data available immediately,
ultimately expediting
the analytics process and
enabling access to the
freshest data possible for
real-time decision-making.”
Kiran Nagarur
Vice President, Data Science
& Engineering Fanatics
Setup in minutes.
Continuous data with
zero downtime.
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 V O LU M E
Vanguard unlocks data from their
mainframe and replicates it to AWS.
Costs are down and innovation is up as the investment company
leverages cloud services.
CHALLENGE
Investment company Vanguard
manages $5.6 trillion in assets for
30+ million investors. They wanted
to leverage AWS for building new
applications and analytics solutions
that have real-time data coming
from large mainframe systems.
Data Integration Success Stories
SOLUTION
After adopting Qlik, Vanguard is
now able to replicate mainframe
data in near-real time into AWS,
making it available to application
developers and analytics users
– and in the process, offloading
queries and reducing costs.
THE RESULTS
Qlik’s CDC Streaming capabilities
handle Vanguard’s diverse
workloads and data volumes,
moving 20+ million rows of data
per hour (on average) and 60+
million rows of data per hour
during peak demand. Vanguard’s
adoption of the cloud data
platform increased by 200% year-
on-year, and compute costs were
reduced by 30%.
“
Qlik enables us to build
agile applications and
analytics in the AWS Cloud,
dealing efficiently with
the volume and velocity
of our mainframe data.”
Donovan Stockton
Platform Owner, Cloud Data as a Service
Vanguard
20+ million rows
replicated hourly,
flexing to
60+ million rows
during peak demand.
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 V O LU M E

Veritix (AXS) speeds data integration “

We tried creating backups,
moving those to the cloud,

and boosts analytics performance. restoring them to a staging

database, and then migrating
The digital ticketing and event marketing company offers analytics reporting the staging database to
to customers – and its transactional database was overworked. Amazon Redshift. That
process took over 21 hours.
Once we discovered Qlik, we
CHALLENGE SOLUTION THE RESULTS
were sending data directly to
The transactional database at Initially, data engineers at Veritix The data warehouse now
Veritix was used for both production assumed that they would have contains around three terabytes
the cloud in two hours.”
and reporting. As a result, it wasn’t to build custom tools to replicate of information, with billions of Mike Rojas
Senior VP of Product Development
optimized for analytics, and data to the cloud. They made a first records available for customer
Veritix (AXS)
performance was a concern. So the attempt, and the process took 21 analytics. And not only has
team decided to create a separate hours. Then they discovered Qlik – Qlik met Veritix’s performance
data warehouse and selected which took just two hours to install, requirements; it has also exceeded
Amazon Redshift for the job. configure, and move hundreds of the team’s expectations in ease
millions of records to Redshift. of use.

3 terabytes in
the data warehouse.

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 ACCESS
From the internal consumer to the end customer, real-time access to data
has become an imperative. Qlik enables businesses everywhere to deliver.

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 ACC E S S
Swiss Life delivers a current view
of customer data.
The financial services provider established a data index that can be
leveraged through multiple channels and by multiple audiences.
CHALLENGE
Swiss Life France, a major
provider of insurance and
wealth management, set out to
aggregate customer data from the
company’s back-end systems into
a central search-and-retrieve data
index. The goal was to create a
consistent multi-channel view of
customers that could be leveraged
by portals, mobile applications,
analytics, and more.
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SOLUTION
With Qlik, Swiss Life moves data
in near-real time from its DB2/z
mainframe to an Oracle database,
which feeds an Elasticsearch
search engine that serves requests
from portals and multi-device
applications. This solution has
eliminated the need for significant
development work to modify back-
end applications, and it currently
enables Swiss Life’s multi-channel
and digital strategies.
“
Without Qlik, we couldn’t
have done the project,
since it would have been
too costly for us in terms
of development work. We
would have been forced to
give up on our real-time data
THE RESULTS
propagation requirement.”
Christian Phan-Trong
Customers can now access
Architecture Director
information about their policies Swiss Life
via the web portal or their mobile
application. Distributors can
access the same information
through their dedicated portal.
And soon, the project will enable
access to the same information
for service agents.
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 ACC E S S

J.B. Hunt makes data accessible in minutes “

The combination of real-
time data and insights

by accelerating the flow into its data lake. we’re now experiencing
is really helping advance
The Fortune 500 shipping and logistics leader powers its signature platform the company’s expertise in
with Qlik and Databricks. supply chain technology.”
Joe Spinelle
Director, Engineering & Technology
CHALLENGE SOLUTION THE RESULTS J.B. Hunt

When J.B. Hunt implemented a
Microsoft Azure Databricks data
lake, they noticed increasing
pressure on the operational data
stores that served as the backbone
for J.B. Hunt 360°, their digital
freight matching platform. After
evaluating the data pipelines, they
pinpointed the need to accelerate
the data flow into the lake to
ensure that users maintained a
quality experience.
Qlik’s Change Data Capture
technology delivers timely data
to the data lake from a variety
of sources, including legacy
mainframe systems and SQL
servers. Using Qlik, the J.B.
Hunt team can preview the data
ingestion process and proactively
target any issues, ensuring that
users can leverage the data needed
to make critical business decisions.
As J.B. Hunt rolls out the Azure
Databricks data lake across various
parts of the organization, users of
the initial applications are already
experiencing greater real-time data
Data latency reduced
availability. With latency reduced
to just minutes, the J.B. Hunt team to minutes.
is achieving their internal central
KPI success benchmark for data
delivery from the data lake.

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Ewals Cargo Care revolutionizes data
delivery with Qlik and Snowflake.
The Dutch transport and logistics company reinvents its data infrastructure to
meet modern demands.
CHALLENGE
Ewals Cargo Care operates in 15
countries and handles over 3400
shipments daily. As the business
grew, their data infrastructure
became increasingly unable to
respond to demands. Adding new
data sources took over 20 days,
and creating new data marts took
weeks. This was a significant hurdle
for a logistics company looking to
work in real time.
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SOLUTION
Qlik’s data warehouse automation
solution enables the company
to move its data easily and securely
into the data warehouse in real
time. Qlik then transforms the
data into analytics-ready data
sets for consumption by
downstream analytics processes.
By combining Qlik with a Snowflake
cloud data warehouse, Ewals has
achieved an even higher level of
improvement and efficiency in
its analytics environment.
“
Since the start of our
collaboration with Qlik
and Snowflake, we’ve seen
immense results. We can
unlock new data sources in
our data warehouse within
five days instead of 20 and
create new incremental
THE RESULTS
data marts in days rather
With the Qlik-based architecture,
Ewals can handle BI requests as
than weeks.”
they come, support more requests Maikel Jaspers
for new reports, and incorporate BI Engineer
Ewals Cargo Care
new data sources as needed. And
with the payback period at 1.7
years, Ewals will easily recoup the
costs of the deployment within the
three-year subscription period.
Improved data deliverability
by 400%.
Reduced ETL costs
by 75%.
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 EFFICIENCY
Traditional data integration tools can’t handle today’s integration demands,
creating bottlenecks. Qlik opens the pathways so data can flow.

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 EFFICIENCY

Zurich Insurance establishes a “

We looked at the
tools available. With its
single source of truth for data. automation and visualization,
Qlik was the right fit for
The global insurance giant created a central data store to achieve our business.”
clarity and efficiency in their data.
Alex Sidgreaves
Head of Data Architecture & DataOps
Zurich Insurance

CHALLENGE SOLUTION THE RESULTS

Following several acquisitions and
as a result of its manual reporting
processes, insurance giant Zurich
was struggling to obtain accurate
data. The company needed to turn
data into an asset and increase
speed-to-market.
Zurich overhauled its systems to
create a central data store, using
Qlik’s CDC Streaming capabilities
to feed legacy mainframe data to a
Guidewire Platform and Qlik’s Data
Warehouse Automation to build data
warehouses quickly and without
coding. Qlik Sense® is used for data
visualization, with Qlik NPrinting
providing automated reporting.
With Qlik, Zurich has achieved
a single source of data truth,
dramatically boosted efficiency
and reduced the number of
Report volume
reports by 75%.
reduced by 75%.

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 EFFICIENCY
Aggreko powers data-driven growth
with real-time insights.
A leading global provider of power, heating, and cooling solutions,
Aggreko was on a mission to become increasingly insight-driven.
CHALLENGE
To advance their goal of becoming
more insight-driven, Aggreko
first had to centralize their global
operations data. But in the
quest to establish a clean and
consistent process for ingesting
data from their source systems,
they struggled with the varied
requirements of each pipeline. It
looked as though they would have
to develop a custom solution for
every data source, which would
quickly become unmanageable.
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SOLUTION
The search was on to find a single
product that could manage all
ingestion pipelines. The team
chose Qlik for two reasons:
because it’s extremely lightweight,
with a minimal impact on
production systems, and because
its ease of implementation would
help Aggreko’s small team of data
engineers do a big job quickly.
“
The implementation of Qlik
has enabled us to get to
that single source of data
on which we can base our
insights and decisions.”
Elizabeth Hollinger
Head of Analytics
Aggreko
THE RESULTS
Qlik’s CDC Streaming technology
was implemented for Aggreko’s ERP
system within a single week, and no
production systems were impacted. Implemented in one
Aggreko can now deliver insights in
real time and plans to extend the single week.
solution to other data sources.
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 EFFICIENCY
Airbus integrates data from multiple
sources and delivers it across the business.
The €70 billion aviation leader replicates data from a variety of sources
to support faster production, modern analytics, and more.
CHALLENGE
As demand for its airliners
increased, Airbus was seeking
ways to safely and consistently
accelerate production. One existing
application, which collated more
than 15 different sources of data,
wasn’t compatible with a newer
solution developed to meet the
growth of orders.
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SOLUTION
More than 10 Qlik production
servers now securely replicate
aircraft production data from
France, Germany, and Spain. Qlik
enables Airbus to quickly and easily
set up data replication with an
intuitive graphical user interface,
eliminating the need for manual
coding. It synchronizes, distributes,
consolidates, and ingests data
across all major databases, data
warehouses, and Hadoop, on-
premises and in the cloud.
“
We needed to consolidate
data in one place, from
heterogenous sources,
updated in almost-real
time. That’s what Qlik Data
Integration enables for us.”
Cédric Brignol
Project Manager
THE RESULTS Airbus
Airbus is now able to replicate data
from their mainframe and analyze
it with modern tools – tracking
every part, process, and design
drawing for every airplane. The
more efficient analysis of data 150 replication
informs better decision-making.
Since the initial adoption on
tasks in production.
the single-aisle Airbus line, the
engagement has expanded rapidly.
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 Why choose Qlik?
Our end-to-end Data Integration Platform streamlines, automates, and rapidly accelerates your entire information
pipeline, from raw-to-ready data – so you can get the insights you need in time to matter. No other platform brings
together all of the following capabilities:

• Change data capture provides real-time data delivery to the cloud

– or anywhere you need fresh data.

• Data warehouse automation lets you quickly model and deploy new cloud
data warehouses – without manual coding.

• If you’re using a data lake, you can continuously update, refine, and stream
analytics-ready data – for use by AI and machine learning.

• A smart, integrated data catalog provides curated views of data that your
business users can easily find, consume, and trust.

At last, you can unlock all your data, from any source, close the gaps in the data value chain, and be ready to achieve
Active Intelligence – a state of continuous awareness driving real-time, actionable insights based on the very latest data.

For a quick introduction, visit our Qlik Data Integration Platform page.

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