Many organizations have built proprietary in-house systems for things like marketing, accounting or sales tracking. One challenge with these systems is that a lot of valuable data gets locked inside.

This approach is what QlikView calls “business discovery.” One of the minds behind it is Donald Farmer, vice president of product management, at QlikTech, the company that makes QlikView.

The easiest way to connect Excel, Tableau, QlikView or any other BI tool to a proprietary in-house system is to build an ODBC driver. ODBC is a technology that has been around for over two decades and ...

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What sold it on the QlikView technology stack, he says, was the Expressor extract, transform and load (ETL) tool, which the supplier acquired in 2012.