Sapporo Holdings has deployed Qlik as part of its newly redesigned and sustainable data integration platform.
Qlik is expected to enable real-time data to accelerate trusted decision-making and address business challenges.
Earlier this year, the Japanese alcoholic beverage firm announced the operation of the new platform which started fully last January 27.
Sapporo is developing a data integration platform to analyse the business environment and optimise decision-making.
Prior to the introduction of Qlik, the high cost of data integration was a significant bottleneck. Integrating each system and table required detailed design, development, and testing from external vendors, leading to substantial time and cost investments.
Additionally, to minimise disruption to mission-critical operations, data updates were restricted to a once-daily night batch process. As a result, there were instances where the data failed to meet the quality standards required for real-time operations and analysis.
Qlik, which has been implemented in Sapporo’s data platform, resolved these issues by enabling the organisation to keep data up-to-date and develop data linkage modules internally.
Qlik‘s Change Data Capture allows for continuous synchronisation and updates of data without placing heavy loads on the mission-critical system even during peak operations. SAPPORO will roll out the integrated data platform across its sales, logistics, and financial departments in June 2025, with future plans to extend data democratisation throughout the company.
“Thanks to the low-code development and user-friendly UI of Qlik Cloud, we will be able to quickly build in-house integration with new data sources, reducing future costs for building data integration by around 80% and enabling plans which reduce development time by more than 75%,” said Shuichi Umehara, director of the DX Planning Department at Sapporo Holdings.
“This has enabled us to solve issues relating to the requirements for utilising data in business departments at an early stage, and has created a system infrastructure that will enable us to sustainably contribute to profits through such activities, said Umehara. “The wealth of data connectors is a particularly attractive factor that will lead to the expansion of SAPPORO’s data utilisation domain, and we look forward to further connectivity expansion in the future.”
Maurizio Garavello, Qlik SVP of Asia-Pacific and Japan, said the quality of data—its reliability, freshness, and diversity—is crucial for making informed business decisions.
