The value of Qlik Open Lakehouse

December 22, 2025 - Research z230

Enterprises across nearly every industry require a substantial amount of well-managed data to drive modern operations, with AI use-cases only accelerating this demand. As with any emerging technology, standards have become crucial to keep up, and open formats like Apache Iceberg have become core to data platform and lakehouse offerings. To investigate the value delivered by investing in open and interoperable lakehouses, Nucleus interviewed multiple organizations that deployed Qlik Open Lakehouse. Organizations adopting Qlik Open Lakehouse reported 60 to 70 percent improvements in data ingestion processing costs, 25 to 30 percent reductions in query compute costs at up to 5x faster processing, and 30 to 50 percent less time spent on platform management through automated Iceberg optimization.