Qlik Sense November 2022 Client-Managed Release - now available

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Today we released the next version of Qlik Sense client managed.  This release is primarily focused on bringing new and exciting Augmented Analytics innovations and features we have introduced on SaaS to our client-managed customers.

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 With augmented analytics, you can bring the power of your data to more people in your organization, broadening access, deepening insight, and improving efficiency.  Insight Advisor in Qlik Sense has been completely redesigned with UI enhancements and an always-available search box, and we have made several enhancements to chat in the hub. Our new Insight Advisor Analysis Types feature automates the creation of sophisticated analyses such as ranking, comparisons, and clustering in a few clicks. And, we’ve made a number of improvements to our visualization, connectivity, and overall platform capabilities. Read on for more details.

Below you will find  supporting detail on "What's New" in this November 2022 release: 

New Enhancements in Augmented Analytics:  

Generate the most relevant insights through selection and search 

Insight Advisor Search provides an improved Insight Advisor experience in-app, allowing users to easily auto-generate the most relevant analyses and insights from their data. A new button opens Insight Advisor, where users can select fields and generate insights without having to navigate away from their current sheet. The new Ask Insight Advisor search box is now visible at all times within dashboards, allowing users to easily generate insights using natural language processing. Auto-generated visualizations and analyses can be refined and added directly to dashboards for further exploration. 

Create advanced analyses and insights in a few clicks 

Insight Advisor Analysis Types is a new experience in Qlik Sense that allows users to request a certain type of analysis, such as a comparison, ranking, trending, etc., which will be generated in the best possibly way by AI. Users can choose from a variety of advanced analysis types and will be guided to select the best data and options. Analyses will then be auto generated and can be edited and added to dashboards for further exploration. With Insight Advisor Analysis, we now support multiple paths to insight – users can either use traditional natural language search or can start with an analysis type in a more directive manner, driving data literacy and insight. 

Provide curated list of questions for Insight Advisor Users 

Example Questions for Insight Advisor - App creators can now provide example questions for Insight Advisor within the Business Logic layer of an app.  This allows them to offer sample questions that are tailored to their specific analytic content, helping users learn how to use natural language.  When users ask questions, the examples will be displayed in a drop-down menu where they can be selected, modified, and submitted.  And, in chat, example questions from across your apps will be offered. 

Support "explore this further" for follow-up questions in Insight Advisor Chat 

Insight Advisor Chat now better supports partial intent questions with the "explore this further" option, taking people directly to search-based discovery within apps for deeper analysis.  Users can now ask follow-up questions to an original question, and when clicking explore this further, they will be taking into the app with selections applied for the full line of questioning, allowing them to pick up visually where they left off conversationally. 

Time series breakdown as a QIX Engine function 

Time-Series Decomposition Functions - Several new engine functions now allow you to decompose a time series dataset into trend and seasonality. The trend function identifies direction in the data, and the seasonality function determines seasonality with a known periodicity. The residual function identifies variation that is not associated with seasonal or trend components (i.e., noise). With these functions, you now have increased visibility into the patterns and trends in your time-series data so you can better plan future action. 

 New distribution functions from Cephes library 

The following distribution functions from the Cephes library have been added, allowing you to perform more advanced statistical analysis of simulations. These distribution functions can be used in both the data load script and in chart expressions. 

BetaDensity, BetaDist, BetaInv ,BinomDist, BinomFrequency ,BinomInv, ChiDensity, FDensity, GammaDensity, GammaDist, GammaInv, PoissonDist, PoissonFrequency, PoissonInv, TDensity 

New Visualizations & Dashboards:  

Custom tooltip creation for charts without dimensions  

Based on customer request, the ability to create a custom tooltip for the KPI object has been added to Qlik Sense SaaS. This is the first tooltip added on a dimension-less object. The tooltip is conveniently displayed upon hovering over the object.  

Add Background Layer & Properties to Agnostic Map 

As part of the Nebula conversion of all charts, this will enable us to embed a map chart using Nebula.    

Dynamic View Improvement 

Users will now still have visibility to the chart whilst it refreshes, allowing for improved usability. 

Connectivity: 

MongoDB Additional Authentication  

The Qlik MongoDB connector has been enhanced with new security features.  Organizations can now use SCRAM-SHA-256 and LDAP authentication options when defining their MongoDB connection. 

Integration of Standalone Web Connectors in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows 

The following connectors are now available as part of the installed versions of Qlik Sense on Windows:  

Facebook Insights, Google Ads, Google Calendar, Google Search Console, Outlook 365, Mailbox IMAP, Microsoft Dynamics CRM V2, OData, Qualtrics, SMTP, SurveyMonkey, and YouTube Analytics 

For most use cases this means that the standalone Web Connectors are not needed, as these connectors now can be configured directly in the Qlik Sense client. 

Remove of the “Disable” option for the Bulk Reader  

The Bulk Reader load optimization setting was introduced in the August 2021 release, and users were given an option to either “Enable” or “Disable” this feature. This update removes the option to disable the Bulk Reader, and makes it always enabled on new connection definitions, to always ensure high-level performance when working with large datasets. 

Platform: 

Duplicate Tasks in QMC 

Users are now able to duplicate tasks in QMC, much like they already can duplicate an app!  

Client Sub-Bar for Windows 

We have upgraded the Sub-Bar within Qlik Sense Enterprise Client Managed to match what is already being used in Qlik Sense SaaS. This will create an enhanced user experience for our users of both platforms, and inevitably create a much more consistent flow.   

Config Files Persistence: Opt-in or Opt-out 

Newly available check-box selection to allow the user to decide if they would like to enable or disable the config files persistence during an upgrade!   

Allow Users to Create Custom Banners  

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