Connector Factory - February & March 2024 releases

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Over the past two months, Connector Factory has released more capabilities and connectors for data integration, data analytics and application automation. 

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Qlik Data Integration

Additional SaaS application connectors

We’re continuing to expand the connectivity of Qlik Cloud Data Integration with a new group of connectors that just got released.  These connectors will enable you to gather business data from more applications that focus on finance, advertising, and human resources as well as other subjects.  By eliminating the need for custom connectors to access these sources, Data Engineer productivity is increased and Data Consumer’s time to insight is decreased.

• ADP
• Enverus OpenInvoice
• Google AdMob
• Google AdSense
• Google Business Profile
• Google Play
• Google Workspace
• Infor Data Lake
• PagerDuty
• SAP Employee Central Payroll
• RingCentral
• TikTok
• UKG Pro Workforce Management (formerly Dimensions)

Improved interface

We’ve added more capabilities as well as consolidated all connectors into one common interface.  This means that regardless of whether it’s a source, target or application, users will have a similar, streamlined interaction.  This includes improved searching and filtering capabilities along with displaying all recently selected connectors.

Qlik Replicate:  New Databricks authentication type

Qlik Replicate recently added OAuth authorization protocol support with Databricks. In the November SR release of Qlik Replicate, we expanded our OAuth support methods to Databricks endpoints.  This is paving the way for supporting more endpoints with the OAuth protocol in the future. You can learn more about this new capability in this blog.

Qlik Analytics

New SAP ODP Connector

We recently expanded our support for SAP with a new SAP ODP Connector for Qlik Cloud Analytics. This connector provides connectivity to the SAP Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) framework which includes many benefits to SAP users vs. previous, existing SAP connectors including:

• Simplified access to CDS Views and HANA Views
• Access to Extractors, without the use of standalone network service
• Usable with an SAP Runtime license
• Does not require any separate Qlik SAP Connector license
• No need for an SAP transport installation, particularly useful with an SAP managed cloud system
• Up to 25% faster performance vs. Qlik’s existing SAP connectors

Learn more about this connector here

Note that this new connector is separate from an SAP ODP Connector that’s already available in Qlik Data Integration Client-Managed.

Qlik Application Automation

We continue to add more connectors and capabilities to our no-code cloud service that streamlines workflows between SaaS applications and Qlik Cloud.

New Connectors

monday.com - This connector enables your automation to interact with the cloud-based platform that is used to build work management tools and software applications.  You can find out more about the connector in this blog.

AWS Lambda - This connector allows users to easily launch Lambda functions using the AWS serverless platform, which simplifies data-driven automation.  You can find out more about the connector in this blog.

Updated Connectors 

Microsoft Azure OpenAI - users can now run the create completion block with exactly the same parameters as the Qlik Sense connector.

Inphinity - We’ve upgraded the existing blocks in this connector to work with the next version of Inphinity’s API.  Additionally, it’s now possible to insert or delete records.

Qlik Platform Operations - Numerous productivity enhancements have been added to this connector.