Qlik Sense 3.1 - Improved User Experience and Enhanced Data Prep

[Michael_Tarallo]

Qlik Sense 3.1 is our first release after June’s Qlik Sense 3.0‌. Qlik Sense 3.0 introduced us to major new innovations including Visual Search, Visual Data Preparation as well as developer and user experience improvements. (In case you missed it you can see this 50 second action inspired trailer that shows highlights of what was previously released in Qlik Sense 3.0.) Qlik Sense 3.1 builds on many of the same themes that improve the user experience, enhance data preparation and address our developer community. During this release schedule we also have a few other "extras" that will both please and surprise you. Read on to learn more my friends.

User Experience

We continue to focus on driving our user experience alongside enhancements to our engine and ecosystem.  In 3.1 we made a number of chart improvements including more granularity in time-aware charts which were introduced in 3.0.  We’ve added more controls to line and combo charts and added auto recognition of city and country data to our mapping.  We’ve added the capability to "unpivot" pivot table and cross table data in the data manager and included the ability to pre-filter data via selected bundled connectors and made the visual data preparation algorithm even smarter.  We’ve also added a number of UI enhancements including drag and drop chart coloring.

You can view a brief presentation on the new feature highlights in this video below and see some of these features in action by clicking the links mentioned above

Embracing Developer Innovation

We not only continue to build and invest in our 9,000 strong developer community via Qlik Branch but we continue to create tools for developers to better experience the power of our platform and make it easier to build on.  Our new Qlik Playground™ does just that. It is a free, one-of-a-kind programming environment that allows developers to learn about, use, and experiment with Qlik‘s associative engine and APIs.

By accessing public data sets (including your own Twitter data) through our available APIs; Playground allows you to get hands-on with your data and create cool data-driven apps using powerful search and other capabilities that Qlik offers quickly and easily.

AND Finally let me introduce you to ....

Qlik Sense Cloud Business

Qlik Sense Cloud Business empowers groups of people within your organization to deploy and manage a series of analytical apps. Qlik Sense Cloud Business adds additional security and governance features within your managed work group. Control which users have access to your shared apps, and allow them to collaborate, create, edit and access group data and content. This cloud-based model allows you to add new users and apps as requirements change, with the ability to scale to support current and future needs. Also included is the ability to schedule data refreshes and additional data connectivity to cloud-based sources. You can get a sneak peek at Qlik Sense Cloud Business right now and learn more by visiting our preview page.

Well friends, that is all I have. For a "point release" there's lots of goodness to go around both in and out of the product. I hope you enjoy it. Remember to reach out to myself or my colleagues in the qlik community with any questions and we will to our best to help.

Regards,

Michael Tarallo

Qlik

@mtarallo