Qlik will be adding R and Python integration to its data analysis tool later this month, continuing a BI trend that uses scripting languages to bulk up the power of drag-and-drop platforms.

While Qlik already supports some statistical functions, it is difficult for any platform designed for ease of use to match the power of R and its 9,000+ packages or Python with Pandas and SciPy. However, as data science has become increasingly important within many organizations, there are more power users sharing software with business end users. “We built this because people have asked for it,” CTO Anthony Deighton said in an interview.

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