Qlik Data Analytics Product Release - February 2020

[QlikSenseUpdates]

We are excited to welcome the first release of 2020 which provides greater value through enhanced capabilities across our data analytics platform.   

[QlikSenseUpdates]

As part of our drive to lead in the cloud, the February release adds the ability to use third-party visualization extensions in our SaaS offerings. The ability to include extensions from Trusted Extension Developers and the wider development community, now greatly increases the ability to customize analytics in our SaaS products.  We have also added 4 new data connectors, the ability to export to pdf and have made numerous improvements to the management of tenants, all of which drive improved insight to action in the cloud.

Another key focus area for us in 2020 is strengthening our strategic technology partnerships and the value of our integrated offerings. With the February 2020 release, we are introducing Dynamic Views (video) which gives Qlik Sense users the ability to refresh data within one or more charts in an on-demand fashion. This allows users to maximize system performance by enabling precision data source access while empowering users to be in control of when data is refreshed in an app.  This provides flexibility in how customers manage data and the associated costs, while also enriching our partnership with cloud data platforms like Snowflake.

The value of our end-to-end data and analytics platform is a key part of differentiation for Qlik, and in 2020 we aim to strengthen the integration between our platforms, creating an unrivaled value proposition for customers.  A key step in this process is the introduction of an integrated Qlik Data Catalyst QVD Catalog in Qlik Sense. Qlik Sense users can now browse and select QVD based data sources from directly within the Qlik Sense user interface. (Qlik Data Catalyst for QVDS - video)

We continue to respond to customer and partner feedback, and as such, we are pleased to announce that this release adds over 10 new data visualization features and styling options to Qlik Sense, allowing users to create more advanced and customized analytics. We have added trendlines, indicators in tables, moving average and difference modifiers, custom tooltips, and a duplicate function for measures.  New styling options include dimension, header and cell options for pivot tables, a new action button with improved styling, line options for the line chart, custom sorting in the funnel chart, and font family support in custom themes.  And we have made improvements to mapping functionality and presentation.  With these features, we continue to expand the quality and power of the visualization and dashboarding capabilities in Qlik Sense.

We also continue to enrich our leadership position in augmented and conversational analytics by making several improvements to our visual insight generation capabilities in Qlik Sense, driven by the Qlik Cognitive Engine.  We have added support for Radar Charts, allowing our cognitive engine to automatically generate this type of visualization.   And we have improved pattern detection for natural language processing (NLP), as well as made natural language search available in Qlik Sense on Windows.  These capabilities help improve the quality and relevance of AI-generated insight suggestions in Qlik Sense. 

The release also includes improvements to several value-added products.  For Qlik Insight Bot, we have added new capabilities and reduced back-end dependencies for seamless installation and operation.  This includes the ability to use bookmarks in conversational interaction, manage with multiple administrators, and synchronize users between Qlik Sense and Qlik Insight Bot.  And for Qlik NPrinting, we have delivered improved licensing operations and a streamlined approach for report authoring allowing quick reports to be created from charts and sheets.  Also, this release makes it easier to manage situations where the Qlik Sense app ID is changing due to publish/replace and movement between environments.

With all of this, plus back end improvements around performance and security measures, The February 2020 release continues to drive our innovation agenda around accelerating business value through data and analytics and helps get 2020 off to a fast start.

Check out the What's New demo App, and be sure to register for the Qlik Insider to hear from our team of experts on this release.  

• Feature Demonstration Video
•  help.qlik.com
• Qlik Data Catalyst for QVDs
• Dynamic Views
• Third-party visualization extensions in cloud-based editions

[BeeGees]

@Michael_Tarallo 

Since sth finally changed in data visualisation features. Is there any chance for combo tables (mix of straight & pivot table) sth similar to the one mentioned here ?? It's a feature I'm being requested A LOT by my users.

[robert99]

@BeeGees 

This would be another great adjustment to have built into the Pivot Table. To fill all rows with the appropriate data.

What I've done as a work around is use a straight table and MonthsAgo. The user selects one MonthYear. But the period is fixed. Say the current MonthYear and the previous 5 (or whatever) months (so it means setting up the dimensions and 6 measures. And linking all the measures to the one selected MonthYear

I have not had any requests for anything different once this was set up. The longest I have set up is 15 months. Its a slight pain to set-up but once done has worked well

[robert99]

@Or 

"document-chaining rules (same field name = apply selections on both sides), etc. Perhaps in a future version..."

 👍

I thought this might be asking for too much. But this would be brilliant if it could be done in some way. It something I would also like with alternate states. Where say dates are separate but other filters apply to all states.

[AndrewMcIlwrick]

I found an old 2016 Qlik Sense training document today - OMG. The product has really evolved beyond that initial attempt - all credit to everyone - Qlik, partners, customers and Community contributors for feeding their belief in Qlik into an evolving product. The 2016 version was possibly still Donald Farmer's baby but today's is genuinely in another league when you look back just 4 years.

[robert99]

@Ian_Crosland 

Thanks for your reply.

But is it possible to load one Master Visualization and some filters to link to this Master Visualizations from another App. Using Qlik Sense Business.

For example if I have a debtors App and a Finance App. Can I load in Master Visualizations (including usable filters) from the debtors App to the Finance App. At present I would reload everything in the Finance App using script as I did in Debtors. Not just the final charts / Visualizations.

[martingries]

@ Patric above

Hi Patric,

thanks a lot for your tipp how to hide the "Buttons" in Pivot Tables.

This is a feature we would really appreciate!

Hope to see you latest at Qlik World and that Corona is not a topic anymore...

BR

Martin

[martingries]

@ Michael:

Thanks a lot again for your nice videos and how you explain all the new functions. Always a pleasure to follow. And thanks for this URL in your video:

https://showcase3.qlik.com/sense/app/bcca6893-a1b3-4763-8c5d-55ca7679878b/overview

To see this "live" is great and save me a lot of time to do this on my own for our internal Qlik developers/users

😊

BR

Martin

[Patric_Nordstrom]

@robert99 

Themes can't applied on top each other, one way is to copy the breeze theme properties and add the your properties to it. The breeze theme is located here (on my machine, QSD) C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Programs\Qlik\Sense\Client\assets\external\sense-themes-default\breeze

My example is all all or nothing, but with it is possible specific charts with css: https://github.com/GINQO/Target-Sense-Objects-Template. Credit to Maxwell Marchand at GINQO.

Thanks,

Patric

[NadiaMCasarreal]

Buenas Tardes

Tengo un tema que necesito resolver estoy generando un informe Cíclico en el cual la dimensión que utilizo contiene 270 responsables al ejecutar la tarea Nprinting genera el archivo excel con el responsable correspondiente pero para poder realizar el envío por correo comprime los 270 archivos en un zip.

Es posible usar la dimensión cíclica y enviar por separado cada uno de los archivos excel?

[parkera]

Mike,

Coolest feature for me, is the one that means that Qlik system admin can control the security for integration components. This means that JS scripts can be used to support developers that need to use a replacement for VB Script that historically made QlikView very cool indeed for many, and the hardest product to support at the same time.

We are looking at an in-house project using JS and the timing is perfect. As we can now deploy in a secure way.

Kudos for adding.