Qlik Reporting Service, a new approach to report distribution in the cloud

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Reporting continues to be at the core of the BI and analytics category for many.  Not everyone has access to a dashboard, but most workers are still responsible for daily decision-making and subsequent action. Many execs and rank and file still prefer their daily/weekly flash style reporting to manage the business or obtain their go-to daily information. 

With the introduction of the Qlik Reporting Service, Qlik puts our customers squarely on the path of a Cloud reporting experience as a complementary ingredient to our Active Intelligence vision.

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What Is Qlik Reporting Service?

Qlik Reporting Services is a public API that provides the ability to compose multi-page outputs from your apps, leveraging your curated analytics in a report format.  It can be easily used from within Qlik Application Automation or can be integrated into customers’ systems directly.  Qlik Reporting Service is available to our Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS customers.   This is our first major release on our cloud reporting journey and together with Qlik Application Automation it reimagines report task management using a low code/no code report process definition.  Centralized reporting teams can now in a matter of a few inputs define burst reports to support management or operational reporting requirements and leverage their cloud eco-system to source recipients, and configure distribution channels. 

• Part 2: https://youtu.be/7fNnSXtDKQY 
• Part 1 and Part2 Combined: https://youtu.be/tXyuT_1S23o 

We see three areas where our customers will reap immediate benefits with Qlik Reporting Service:

• Automate report distributions:  Time to value is an overarching benefit provided by Qlik Reporting Service.  By utilizing automation, IT centralized reporting functions, as well as many savvy team members within line of business, can quickly learn to assemble, automate and accelerate the distribution of different reports needed by a wide variety of stakeholders across the organization.
• Connect and Deliver:  Whether through emailing to anyone (both Qlik users and non-Qlik stakeholders) or delivering through cloud storage connectors such as  Dropbox, Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage, there are several options to support burst reports in Qlik Cloud.
• Extend the reach of analytics: We can now provide scheduled or triggered cadence of Qlik Sense report insights to a customer’s wider business ecosystem, including to partners, suppliers, customers, agents, etc. extending Qlik’s analytics reach and increasing the investment value of our Qlik Sense SaaS analytics platform.

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Qlik Reporting Service is now available to all Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS customers and includes 100 reports per tenant per month defined as a document output of a reporting services call. 

We are excited about our latest data analytics innovation for the cloud.  We invite you to revisit, rethink and reexamine your potential for reporting in the cloud with Qlik Reporting Service. 

To learn more visit: Qlik Reporting Service video playlist and for all the latest SaaS enhancements visit our SaaS Change Log

[paulcalvet]

Hello,

This is a great feature ! I just test it and it's very easy to implement with automation.

Besides, legend are not visible on my laptop (1366*768), visible on iMac

When I export the sheet to pdf, it works well, Object are sized correctly.

I try to change the size of the sheet, but it doesn't change anything, do you have an idea ?

Thanks,

[Andrew_Kruger]

Thanks for the feedback! If you check out 7:20 of this video https://youtu.be/tXyuT_1S23o I think you will find the sheets size info you are looking for.  

[Jan-Hendrik]

Hi

Thank you, very excited to start working with it

Can you provide more clarity on:

"includes 100 reports per tenant per month defined as a document output of a reporting services call"

Does this mean

- You will not be able to send out more than 100 reports in a month from a tenant

- or no more than 100 Create Report blocks can be created

If it is the first option, what is Qlik's plan / roadmap for allowing more reports to be send out each month as you will need to be able to send out more in a lot of use cases, for example a sales app needs to send a daily report to 10 agents (each agent's report filtered for that agent's client data), so 10 * 21 working days is already 210 reports per month?

Thank you in advance

[josemanzod]

@Jan-Hendrik see the limits on the qlik help page.

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Reporting/Reports-with-a... 

• Number of reports per tenant per day: 10 000

[Andrew_Kruger]

Thank you for the question to clarify the 100 reports and the follow-on reference to the help documentation.  

Qlik Reporting Service is a value add service that is entitled through a tiered model. It offers the ability to customize your analytics report delivery.  Customers can get started with 100 reports monthly before moving to the next tier.  The service will start metering in 2022 so take the time now to get a feel for it!

The Help documentation references the boundaries for all export/report content from the platform inclusive of the Qlik Reporting Service and the native capabilities that are included within user subscription (e.g. download, self-service report, and more). 

[josemanzod]

Thank you @Andrew_Kruger 

The first part of the 100 monthly reports is clear to me, however I am confused with the limits of the help page, perhaps it would be good to clarify it directly on the help page.

Regards

[Andrew_Kruger]

Great feedback @josemanzod  - I'll take a look and see how we can make it clearer - thank you!

[Jan-Hendrik]

Thanks for the feedback, so my understanding is that the first 100 report instances send out are free and a customer will have to pay for more reports (tiered ranges). Do you have an idea when this pricing will be published?

[gerhardvanwyk]

Hi, This looks really nice. All the output example are PDF can you also output in other formats line Excel(.xlsx). Is this a replacement for Nprinting or seperate?

[paulcalvet]

Hello @Andrew_Kruger 

Thank you, it's better when I size the canvas like in the video, but still a little small for me.

I posted an idea on the forum to follow this point.

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Suggest-an-Idea/Enterprise-Reporting-Define-the-size-of-legend/idi-p/1...

Regards,

Paul