We use Qlik Sense daily to deliver dealer facing dashboards and Qlik Talend cloud to produce the Qlik compatible input files those dashboards consume. Qlik's integration of Upsolver technology and native support for Apache Iceberg promises low latency ingestion, automated iceberg optimization and direct Snowflake integration-potentially delivering real time, analytics ready data and significant storage/compute savings. However, the benefits in production depend heavily on the shape of your data and retention and query patterns. A careful TCO assessment is required before a full rollout.

The Talend data integration platform, whilst powerful and useful for batch and bulk processing, is often difficult to use, develop, and understand. When jobs work, they work well and performance is good. When they fail, however, the causes are often random and difficult to diagnose and fix. These inconsistencies mean you may end up spending more time fixing failures than working on new features.