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Qlik continues to prioritize SaaS in product development efforts, delivering capabilities to the Qlik Cloud in a fast and agile way to meet the needs of our customers and the demands of the market. Our rapid innovation in SaaS allows us to then bring many of these capabilities to our Windows customers, supporting them on their journey until they are ready to go to the cloud.
Our release cadence for Qlik Sense on Windows remains the same – we will have quarterly releases in the second month of the quarter typically including capabilities previously released to SaaS.
New Augmented Analytics Capabilities include:
Insight Advisor
Insight Advisor now returns more robust period-over-period analyses in the form of entire dashboards when users select or search for applicable fields. Instead of a simple chart, you get one or more charts and KPIs, along with a filter pane, allowing users to make selections and further explore comparative performance
Insight Advisor can now recognize expressions contained in variables and utilize them when generating analytics, allowing customers that manage expressions in variables to generate more relevant insights.
Business Logic
Business Logic allows users to define the default grain for a calendar period, such as a yearly, quarterly, or monthly basis. When users create behaviors such as default calendar periods, they can now specify whether to use or ignore the grain for a particular analysis, providing more advanced fine-grain controls.
We have added several new parameters to business logic that help fine-tune the analysis generated by Insight Advisor. These include setting trend direction and sort order for a measure, specifying favorite types of analyses to be used by the system, and specifying the overall aggregation type for complex expressions in support of NLG.
Visualization and Dashboarding Improvements:
Improvements to the Grid Chart
In addition to the Auto labeling option, a new All option allows you to show labels for each data point in the chart. The All option forces all labels visible in all cases. Plus, the Auto option has been improved to show more labels by default. Also, in preparation for the deprecation of the Heatmap extension in February 2022, the grid chart now includes two layout options, Standard and the new Heatmap. The Heatmap layout adds the functionality of a heatmap chart to the grid chart. As of February 2022, the Heatmap chart extension will no longer be supported.
Improved Variables UI
A top request through our Ideation Program - the updated, more flexible variable UI simplifies the management of chart variables. It surfaces all variable elements, including name, description, value, and tags; and allows you to add, sort, search, and duplicate variables. You can even delete multiple (up to 20) variables simultaneously. These capabilities alleviate manual work and help teams of users work more efficiently.
Formatted Export to Excel
Requested by our customers, Qlik Sense now supports formatting options when exporting straight tables to Excel. Exported tables now include totals and styling, as they appear in Qlik Sense.
New and Expanded Connectivity
Qlik Sense connector for Google Drive is now available to all customers who have Qlik Sense Enterprise Client-managed. This enables any user to have their Qlik app access data that’s stored in Google Drive.
Google Drive for Spreadsheets: we moved the Qlik Connector Google Drive for Spreadsheets to be included within the core Qlik Sense Enterprise Client-managed product. This means that administrators no longer need to separately install the Qlik Web Connectors package if users want their Qlik apps to access data that’s within Google Spreadsheets.
The Qlik Snowflake connector now supports the use of key pair authentication. This will enable organizations to utilize enhanced security measures when users access Snowflake from Qlik Sense.
The Qlik Redshift connector now supports the use of IAM credentials authorization. This will enable organizations to assign role-based access privileges in addition to designating access rights individually.
Administration and Platform
For this February 2022 update, we’ve released several platform and administrative enhancements that modernize reload tasks controls and visibility for non-admins, optimize security elements and extend the flexibility for administrators to nimbly manage their sites.
Reload Tasks
Administrators and analytics champions will be happy to hear that reload tasks can now have an end date making it easy to create tasks that can run between business operation-specific hours like 9 am-6 pm, store hours, etc.
Also, self-service task management will be available to users with the appropriate permission to start, stop, and view reloads right in their hub.
Security
We’ve modernized security components to Qlik Sense Client-Managed including an accessible UI for QMC Administrators to modify cache-content controls and now supporting SCRAM encryption with the ability to enable it as a persistent setting.
Platform
As communicated in 2021, we have now fully retired centralized logging to enhance performance and reliability. Going forward after the February 2022 release of Qlik Sense Client-Managed, you will not be able to configure or install centralized logging anymore. The even better news is that those types of insights can now be found in our various monitoring applications. Additional controls have been enabled to offer administrators the option to define a listening port during a silent installation and setting the database maximum connection pool size. With this update and part of the recent library update of Nebula.js, developers can now generate a Nebula.js visualization that can be used as an extension in Qlik Sense. This also allows developers to generate a legacy extension to run in an environment older than Qlik Sense Client-Managed 2020.
To download the latest version of Qlik Sense on windows, you can now go to our community area for an improved experience and an easy way to communicate with your peers on the latest product build.
As always, subscribe to our SaaS change log to get a glimpse of the newest innovations available in SaaS and register for the upcoming Qlik Insider Webinar to learn about these features and future product deliveries!
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