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The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

SavRakkar — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:31:08 GMT

The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool provides a structured and repeatable process for migrating analytics assets to Qlik Cloud. It enables teams to define migration plans, validate each step, and coordinate across roles to ensure secure and accurate execution.

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Core Capabilities

Migrate Qlik Sense Client-Managed apps, streams, users, groups, data files, data connections, and much more
Preserve content ownership, access rights, and user-generated content such as apps, private and community sheets, as well as bookmarks through dynamic user mapping
Automatically rewrite load scripts to reflect updated cloud data connections and paths
Configure structured plans and jobs to manage projects at scale
Enable multi-user access to support collaboration and phased execution
Log, validate, and roll back migration steps as needed
Partially supports QlikView and Qlik NPrinting migrations to reduce redevelopment

What Makes the Tool Different

Designed from real-world experience and refined for enterprise use
Fully branded, hardened, and extended since acquisition
Supports phased and repeatable execution across migration stages
Adjusts load scripts and metadata automatically during migration
Maintains user identity, private content, and access policies

Why Move to Qlik Cloud

Qlik Cloud provides continuous innovation, centralized governance, and integrated AI that is not available in on-premises environments. Customers migrating to Qlik Cloud immediately benefit from:

Qlik Predict for AI-driven forecasting and predictions built into dashboards
Qlik Answers for intuitive, natural language search and explanation
Continuous cloud-native feature delivery with automated upgrades
Real-time access to governed and streaming data sources
Simplified DevOps, reduced infrastructure management, and tighter security control

How to Get Started

Download the Qlik Analytics Migration Tool from Qlik's Download page.
Review full documentation at Qlik Analytics Migration Tool overview | Help.qlik.com

Qlik Analytics Migration Tool (Quick Video Demo)

Learn More, Ask Questions, Share Experiences

The Qlik Community is the central place to get answers, exchange ideas, and collaborate with peers using the Qlik Analytics Migration Tool. Whether you're preparing for a full environment shift or running phased pilots, we encourage you to share your approach and learn from others moving to Qlik Cloud in the Move to Cloud forum.

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Qlik Cloud

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

arychener — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:14:03 GMT

I've just started testing the migration tool and it looks great!

The migration of community sheets works very well, but this is not the case for personal sheets: they are all assigned to the owner of the published application (I guess). Is there a planned update to address this issue?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Amélie

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

Sonja_Bauernfeind — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:19:50 GMT

Hello @arychener

We've forwarded this to the appropriate team, thank you so much for your feedback!

All the best,
Sonja

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

adam_jacobs — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:12:12 GMT

@arychener thank you for reaching out. The tool will migrate private content, but only if the users in the user table are all mapped appropriately to the corresponding cloud user. Please check that all users with private content exist in the user table in the migration plan. Also make sure to run the migrate users job prior to any other steps.

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

arychener — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:00:59 GMT

Hi @adam_jacobs,

Thanks for your feedback.

Users appear to be correctly mapped. The app owner is correctly mapped after running the "Update Owners" job.

But it seems that all sheets (public / community / private) are always mapped to the user who launched the migration tool (me). That's why users can't see their private sheets. Maybe I missing something?

Best regards,

Amélie

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

arychener — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:40:33 GMT

Hi @adam_jacobs,

After verification, the community sheets are OK.
However, for private sheets, even if the logs are OK, the mapping is not done correctly.

Logs:

Sheet details on Qlik Cloud:

Whereas for a community sheet belonging to the same user, it's fine:

Maybe I have to create a support case?

Thanks a lot!

Amélie

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

arychener — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:34:25 GMT

The problem seems to be due from insufficient time between the execution of the “Migrate Applications” and “Publish Applications” jobs. Even if the “Migrate Applications” job is complete, if I launch the second one immediately afterwards, I encounter issues with sheet mapping.
Waiting a while between the two seems to resolve the issue.

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

rlesage — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:19:49 GMT

Can someone confirm if community bookmarks are also migrated correctly and whether or not they keep the correct owner?

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

adam_jacobs — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:44:51 GMT

@rlesage yes, this will migrate community bookmarks as well.

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

dwighttrumbower — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:02:45 GMT

The migration seems to assume maintaining the user in qlik cloud and not using IDP. I don't see how you can migrate the users from qlik sense to cloud and he the connection be IDP.

Unless you have to force a propagation of all the users from Entra to cloud.

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

adam_jacobs — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:46:34 GMT

@dwighttrumbower I can see where you got that conclusion, but that is not the case. What you want to assume with the creation of the user in the migration tool is that the user you are creating matches either or both of the email or subject of the user in the IDP. This would avoid duplicating users.

In order for the IDP to create the user, the user must first log in. If they have not yet done that, but you want their private content (sheets, bookmarks, etc) to migrate into the cloud and maintain their ownership, then you have the QAMT create that user and ensure that at least one of those two features matches the IDP so that when they do login for the first time, they are mapped to the user you created and they own their content. If the user already exists in cloud, you would not migrate that user in QAMT but simply map the user in QAMT, again allowing for private content ownership to be maintained.

I hope this helps.

Re: The Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

dwighttrumbower — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:27:48 GMT

So if IDP is working correctly, we can create the users in QAMT an make sure user email = idp user email and user subject cloud = private sheet subject id. ??

User Name Client-Managed	User ID Client-Managed	User Directory Client-Managed	User License Client-Managed	User Roles Client-Managed	User Name Cloud	User Email Cloud	User Subject Cloud	User License Cloud	User Roles Cloud	Migrate
Dwight Trumbower	tsusdw	TS	Professional		Dwight Trumbower	dwight.trumbower@domain.com	ts\tsudw	Full User (Capacity)		Yes

Non IDP seemed to work, it's the IDP side that doesn't. (I have multiple streams of help on this)