Qlik [pronounced "klik"] (formerly known as Qliktech) provides a data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence platform.

[1] The software company was founded in 1993 in Lund, Sweden and is now based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States.

[3][4] Qlik's AI program enables AI-powered analytics, natural language capabilities, and visualizations.

[8][9][10] The company's first product, QuikView (now called QlikView), was built to enable users to retrieve detailed data analysis from various systems.

[23] In 2016, private equity firms Bain Capital, Permira, and Thoma Bravo submitted offers to buy Qlik.

[48][49] The same year, the company acquired Salt Lake City-based Big Squid, a leading provider of no-code automated machine learning.

[50][51] The company also went on to acquire NodeGraph, a customizable metadata management solution, to help expand its analytics data pipeline capabilities.

Some of the Qlik Sense extension producers include ancoreSoft, AnyChart, Applybi, ExtendBI, Inphinity, TrueChart, and Vizlib.

[76] Qlik Talend Cloud introduces AI augmented data integration and quality capabilities.

[6] On June 2, 2016, private equity firm Thoma Bravo announced that it would acquire Qlik in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $3 billion.

[78] Thoma Bravo paid $30.50 per share for Qlik, representing a 40% percent premium to the Company's unaffected 10 day average stock price prior to March 3, 2016 of $21.83.

[77] In January 2022, ZDNET reported that Qlik had confidentially filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public again.