New Online Qlik Playground Provides Developers Free Access to Explore Rich Visual Analytics

 

Web developers gain easy access to explore the rich visual analytics
capabilities of the Qlik Analytics Platform

Singapore – September 30, 2016 – Qlik®, a leader in visual analytics, today announced the
launch of Qlik
Playground™.  Qlik Playground is a web-based environment
providing an easy way for developers to learn about, use, and experiment with
Qlik’s powerful platform, providing access to the QIX Associative Indexing
Engine and open APIs for loading, searching, analyzing and visualizing data.  Built for developers by developers, Qlik
Playground is available now and extends Qlik® Branch – an
open source, collaborative community to share and ignite innovation using
Qlik’s visual analytics platform.

With Qlik Playground,
developers are introduced to the powerful capabilities of the Qlik Analytics
Platform, and provided their own sandbox to experiment and try out specific
APIs for working with, analyzing, and visualizing data, or explore ready-made
samples.  By connecting to their own data
and accessing public data sets through Qlik’s APIs, developers can get hands-on
and see how easy it is to find and explore the relationships that exist within
the data, and bring it to life visually.

Qlik’s platform and open APIs
are designed to work with any software architecture or stack, platform, and
language.  The query-less approach to
data retrieval provides high performance access via a familiar JSON based
interface, and simplifies the structure for working with data.  Even searching data can be enhanced with the
QIX Associative Indexing Engine, creating more powerful and easier-to-use
interfaces for web-based applications.  Qlik
Playground demonstrates how little time and effort is needed to turn data into
fully-interactive, data-driven applications, which creates all kinds of new
possibilities.

Speros Kokenes, Director of
Visual Analytics at Axis Group, a Qlik Partner, comments, “Qlik Playground is
opening up a whole new world for developers with common Web development skills
that are not proprietary or require product-specific development training.  User interfaces and charts are not limited to
product constraints but instead are open to our imagination on how to best
support customers’ specialized needs.”

“We believe true disruptive
innovation is best fostered through openness and exchange,” said Anthony
Deighton, Qlik CTO and Senior Vice President, Products.  “We want to give developers everywhere the
ability to explore the potential of incorporating data and analytics into apps
to provide a new dimension of interactive discovery.  With Qlik Playground, we create a
game-changing platform for developers to accelerate innovation to bring analytics
to life.”