Qlik
today announced the completion of its acquisition of Attunity
Ltd. The deal closing brings together the leading provider of data
integration and big data management software solutions with the market’s
leading analytics and BI platform, accelerating enterprise ability to
turn raw data into shared insights across the organization through
real-time analytics.
In a competitive environment where trusted, real-time enterprise data is
crucial to success, organizations are looking for a more holistic and
agile approach to data integration and analytics. Bringing together
Attunity’s data integration solutions with the data management and
cataloging solutions of Qlik Data Catalyst™, Qlik now provides customers
a comprehensive enterprise data integration platform to transform their
raw data into a governed, analytics-aware information resource. This
platform enables the movement of data in real time across multiple cloud
environments and data lakes, which when combined with predictive
analytics and artificial intelligence, scales real-time insights
throughout an entire organization.
“Attunity’s agile and real-time data integration capabilities give Qlik
a unique platform that perfectly aligns with an enterprise’s DataOps and
analytics strategy,” said Mike Capone, Qlik CEO. “The ability to help
customers better automate and manage the delivery of trusted data for
insights will help them lead with data to solve their most challenging
problems.”
By combining Attunity® with Qlik Data Catalyst, Qlik will deliver the
platform customers need to enable modern data architectures and DataOps
for Analytics. Attunity extends Qlik’s breadth of enterprise data
integration capabilities through cross-platform data streaming and
automated delivery of analytic ready data sets that directly supports
the market shift to cloud and real-time analytics. Consistent with
Qlik’s vision for the 3rd generation of business intelligence, a modern
data integration strategy creates the foundation for an enterprise
analytics strategy that drives insights, improves decision-making and
transforms organizations.
“Being able to quickly and confidently analyze enterprise-ready data is
central to identifying and driving growth opportunities for Pekin
Insurance,” said John Croft, Principal Architect, Pekin Insurance.
“We’re thrilled to see Attunity and Qlik come together. The natural
synergies between the products are significant, and together they will
help us meet our current and future data integration and analytics
needs.”
Qlik will ensure that Attunity products continue to support and
integrate with all the market’s leading cloud, data, analytics and BI
environments. The acquisition also builds on Qlik’s extensive partner
ecosystem, and will pull in Attunity’s partner network to further expand
Qlik’s go-to-market reach and strengthen its data lake management and
cloud infrastructure partnerships, including Microsoft, Amazon AWS,
Google, Cloudera and Snowflake.
To learn more about Qlik’s expanded data integration capabilities with
Attunity, register for Qlik’s
Qonnections conference taking place May 13-16 in Dallas, TX.
Close Details
Qlik acquired all outstanding ordinary shares of Attunity for a total
value of approximately $560 million. The acquisition was completed May
6, 2017, following the satisfying of all the closing conditions set
forth in the merger agreement, receipt of all antitrust approvals and
clearances, and the expiration of the mandatory 30-day waiting period
following the shareholder approval on April 7, 2019 in accordance with
Israeli law. Attunity shareholders will receive US$23.50 per share in
cash, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes, for
each ordinary share of Attunity owned immediately prior to the effective
time of the acquisition.
About Attunity
Attunity is a leading provider of data integration and big data
management software solutions that enable availability, delivery and
management of data across heterogeneous enterprise platforms,
organizations and the cloud. Attunity’s software solutions include data
replication and distribution, test
data management, change
data capture (CDC), data
connectivity, enterprise
file replication (EFR), managed
file transfer (MFT), data
warehouse automation, data
usage analytics and cloud
data delivery.
Attunity has supplied innovative software solutions to enterprise-class
customers for over 20 years, with successful deployments at thousands of
organizations worldwide. Attunity solutions are available through
various partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. Attunity serves its customers via offices in North America,
Europe, and Asia Pacific and through a network of local partners. For
more information, visit www.attunity.com.
About Qlik
Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, one where everyone can use data
to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems.
Only Qlik offers end-to-end, real-time data integration and
analytics solutions that help organizations access and transform all
their data into value. Qlik helps companies lead with data to see more
deeply into customer behavior, reinvent business processes, discover new
revenue streams, and balance risk and reward. Qlik does business in more
than 100 countries and serves over 50,000 customers around the
world.
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functionality in the future.
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