A primer
Technology leaders, practitioners and business leaders alike, all intrinsically recognize the value of data to inform decisions and actions to drive growth and operational efficiency within their organizations. However, many have historically struggled to align the scale and timing of their investments in technology with the expected business outcomes.
With the general availability of Qlik Talend Cloud in July 2024, Qlik™ delivered a solution that effectively addresses this need and allows organizations to plan and execute data-driven business transformations with confidence.
Here is a quick overview of Qlik™ Talend Cloud‘s Packaging and Pricing.
Packaging: Qlik™ Talend Cloud brings together Qlik™ and Talend’s best of breed capabilities related to Data Integration, Quality and Governance into 4 simple use-case centric editions. These editions are designed to simplify the process of choosing the right solution and help customers focus on using the solution quickly to drive business results. With its broad range of best-in-class capabilities, Qlik™ Talend Cloud supports customer scenarios across every level of technical maturity; from ingestion of data in batches from SaaS applications into a cloud warehouse, to developing sophisticated data products with robust governance and everything in between. Depending on your business and technological needs at the moment, you can choose an edition today and smoothly transition to more advanced editions as needed over time without disruptions.
Pricing Model: A key facet of Qlik™ Talend Cloud’s development was the introduction of a usage capacity-based pricing model for all capabilities within the Qlik™ Talend Cloud portfolio. This pricing model enables organizations to more tightly align their investment in Qlik™ to the value that they realize in the solution. Capacity bands have been defined to provide a specific level of usage capacity for each edition. Customers can start with an initial capacity commitment and as they ramp up the use of the solution, flexibly add more capacity bands to meet their business needs. There also is a structured pricing incentive for higher levels of capacity commitment to support deployments at scale.
Pricing Metrics: To help customers plan their capacity commitment, Qlik™ Talend Cloud uses two simple types of capacity bands. One for Data movement and basic transformation, and another for more sophisticated data integration, quality needs. Lets look at them one by one.
Data Moved: This is a measure of total volume of data moved (in GB) in a given month.
- The Initial full data load of new tables or files is free and not counted towards the metric. Any changes to the data over time does accrue towards the metric.
- The data volume is calculated by multiplying the number of rows in dataset by the row size. Rose size is estimated by mapping data types to standardized Qlik™ Cloud data types and using default data sizes for each type. For a full list of default data sizes please refer to this documentation.
Job Executions: This is a measure of the total number of times each job (Artifact ID) is executed in a given month. (this metric is relevant for advanced data integration, quality needs).
- Batch job executions are counted upon successful conclusion in the given month
- Always-on job executions are counted once in each month that the job was running
Job Duration: This is a measure of total time taken (in hours) for executions of all jobs in a given month. (this metric is relevant for advanced data integration, quality needs)
- Batch job duration is counted upon successful conclusion in the given month
- For Always-on jobs, the actual duration is converted to a ‘chargeable duration’ using a progressive scale. Higher the number of always-on jobs, lower the effective chargeable duration.
Self-service usage Dashboards: In order to enable customers to analyze their usage, Qlik™ provides an intuitive and interactive self-service usage dashboard that provides granular insights into usage trends and underlying drivers. Customers frequently use this information for internal cost-allocation across different divisions or departments.
Estimating capacity needs: Please reach out to your Qlik™ account team who can work with you to understand the workload use inhouse capacity estimation tools to estimate your capacity needs for Data movement as well as Job executions and duration.
See below for a short video that summarizes the Qlik™ Talend Cloud packaging and pricing model. More details can be found on our pricing page here.
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