We have a few exciting updates to share this month! From a new home for our local meetup groups to interactive Community discussion and learning opportunities, there is so much to explore across the Community.
Each month, we publish new updates showing how YOUR feedback is directly reflected in product changes, enhancements, and roadmap decisions.
🔦August's Spotlight Feature: Fast Mode for Qlik Answers
What We've Heard You Say
We heard you say that when you're analyzing your data, waiting for answers slows down your workflow. You wanted a faster way to get answers to everyday questions without sacrificing the option to dive deeper when needed.
What Qlik Did About It
We heard you and introduced Fast mode in Qlik Answers.
Fast mode returns answers to everyday questions in seconds. Whether you're pulling a KPI, slicing data by a dimension, or generating a chart, Fast mode helps you get the information you need quickly.
When your analysis requires deeper reasoning, Thinking mode is available with a single click. Your conversation carries over automatically, and if Fast mode reaches its limits, the Think more option continues your question without requiring you to start over.
What You’ll Experience
With Fast mode, you can:
Get answers to everyday questions in seconds
Quickly retrieve metrics and KPIs
Generate charts from a single prompt
Slice and filter data by dimensions
Switch to Thinking mode whenever you need a more advanced analysis
What's In It for You
This one's for anyone who wants to spend less time waiting and more time exploring data.
Best of all, no additional configuration required. Just open an application, ask a question, and start getting answers fast.
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🔦 July's Spotlight Feature: Optimizing Qlik Cloud App Performance Techspert Talk
Chapters:
01:59- Horizontal scaling
03:06- App Performance Evaluation tool
05:29- What tool to use
05:54- Where to get the App Analyzer
06:53- App Analyzer demo
09:35- App with poor performance
10:39- IF statements
11:48- Calculation Condition
12:56- Poor expression example
13:36- Improved Performance Evaluation
14:34- Improved App script
16:28- Improved App front-end
17:54- App Analyzer on improved app
20:01- App development best practices
What We've Heard You Say
We heard you say as your Qlik Cloud apps grow, maintaining fast performance and diagnosing slowdowns can get tricky. You wanted clearer guidance on which tools to reach for when troubleshooting.
What Qlik Did About It
We heard you and put together a dedicated Techspert Talks session to walk through it.
Using real before-and-after app examples, the session shows how to pinpoint what’s actually slowing down your app and how to fix it.
What You’ll Learn
This session covers:
How to evaluate your app performance
Best practices for identifying bottlenecks in your apps, improving expressions, front-end design, and performance.
Tips for optimizing large apps and answers to common performance questions.
What’s In It for You
This one’s for anyone managing app performance day-to-day. You’ll leave with practical steps to speed up your own apps.
Looking ahead, we are continuing to invest in app performance with features like temporary engine overrides. Giving you a way to test different engine versions on your app before committing, without needing to purchase large app capacity just to compare performance.
Stay tuned...
🔦 June's Spotlight Feature: Configurable Session Timeouts
What We've Heard You Say
We heard customers say they want more flexibility around session management in Qlik Cloud and admins wanted a way to configure authentication session timeout settings.
What Qlik Did About It
We heard you and delivered. Admins now have the controls to configure it under Settings -> Tenant -> Session timeouts.
To give you more clarity and understanding of session handling in Qlik Cloud, it's helpful to know that different types of sessions exist across the platform:
Authentication Session Settings:
These settings determine when users need to sign in again through their identity provider (IdP):
Inactivity Timeout
How long Qlik Cloud waits before requiring re-authentication after inactivity
Default is 30 minutes, adjustable from 15 minutes up to 24 hours.
Maximum Session Duration
The maximum lifetime of an authenticated session before re-authentication is required, regardless of activity.
Default is 24 hours, adjustable up to 7 days.
Qlik Sense Engine Session:
This is separate from authentication and relates to engine memory management, not user sign-in.
Engine Inactivity Timeout
How long a Qlik Sense app remains loaded in memory during inactivity.
Default is 30 minutes, currently not configurable.
If you'd like to explore the feature in more detail, find details inQlik Help.
What's In It for You
Admins, this one's for you. This enhancement gives organizations more flexibility to balance user experience and security requirements based on their own policies and workflows.
Changes apply to new sessions only, so existing users do not get interrupted mid-work.
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This update was featured in our LinkedIn 'You Spoke, We Listened' carousel.
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Thank you for sharing your experience of how you build, explore, and learn in Qlik. You have told us what is working well, where things feel challenging, and where you would like to see improvements.
Here’s a look at what your feedback helped make real.
Qlik is evolving thanks to your feedback! Our team is keeping an eye on this post, so don’t hesitate to ask questions about the newest enhancements. Here’s what you helped make possible:
