For January & February 2025, Connector Factory has released more connectors and enhancements for data analytics, data integration and application automation.
Qlik Cloud Analytics
New! File Connector
The File Connector for the Data Gateway provides a key capability to bridge on-premises file data to Qlik Cloud Analytics. This new connector can help on-premises analytic customers transition to cloud-based analytics as it enables them to easily access and leverage existing on-premises file data, especially QVDs, in Qlik Cloud Analytics. With familiar file access capabilities, the File Connector can also serve as a more robust replacement to the Qlik Data Transfer tool.
Customers can use the File Connector to access network drives and file systems via the Gateway server and can preview a file using read-only access to ensure data security. The File Connector can then load firewalled data files, of any currently supported file type, directly into Qlik Cloud.
The File Connector also utilizes predefined connection definitions for quick setup and supports wildcards when selecting files and folders.
The Qlik Data Gateway - Direct Access allows Qlik Sense SaaS applications to securely access behind the firewall data, over a strictly outbound, encrypted, and mutually authenticated connection.
We recently released Direct Access gateway 1.7.0 and 1.71. 1.7.0 introduced the File Connector mentioned above and 1.7.1 includes the integration of a REST Connector via the gateway. It has the exact same capabilities as the REST Connector within Qlik Cloud, but it also provides access to sources based on REST APIs residing on-premises (behind a firewall). We recommend that you use this REST Connector instead of the Qlik Data Transfer tool.
New connectors for Qlik Answers
Qlik Answers knowledge bases now support Google Drive and OneDrive connections as data sources. You can find more information about creating knowledge bases here.
Qlik Talend
More capabilities in the Snowflake target connector
The Snowflake target connector for data replication and data pipelines now supports configuration of advanced (additional) ODBC and JDBC connection properties. This allows users to have fine-grained control over connection definitions beyond standard parameters, including adding properties such as Role, Secondary Role, and more.
You can find more information about these additional connection properties here.
Qlik Application Automation
New Connectors
Qlik Answers - This Qlik-native connector that enables the creation of data sources in knowledge bases using existing data connections. It also allows users to interact with assistants by asking questions related to the data source and receive answers based on the existing data. This blog discusses how to get started.
Updated Connectors
Added media-files blocks to the Qlik Cloud Services & Qlik Platform Operations connectors.
Added a Copy Data File block to the Qlik Cloud Services connector.
Added input parameter to name the image generated in the Qlik chart image block.
Updated Slack connector to redirect URL to point to Qlik.
New and depreciated file-related blocks in the Slack Connector. You can read more about the changes here.
Added CheckDataSource field to the Sendgrid connector.
