The originally Swedish supplier of business intelligence (bi) software Qlik has acquired Talend for an undisclosed amount. This is a US-based specialist in cloud data integration and data integrity. ServiceNow also stirred: the US workflow automation provider bought Germany-based iot platform G2K.
With the acquisition of Talend, founded in 2006, Qlik expands its data integration, analytics, artificial intelligence (ai) and machine learning product offerings with Talend's cloud data integration portfolio. This allows the company to better help customers with the issue of data fragmentation caused by the proliferation of disparate information sources that are not connected. Talend allows Qlik to connect those sources. Incidentally, Talend's software has long been able to interface with Qlik's.
ServiceNow announced the acquisition of G2K's ai-driven internet-of-things (iot) platform Parsifal. G2K's technology allows organisations to connect actual data in physical spaces for a complete operational overview. ServiceNow will add the G2K technology to its Now Platform to offer it initially in the retail sector. Retailers can then incorporate their real-time inventory data into their workflow software. The software company in time to be able to sell the combined solution in any sector.