In a modern analytics world, people are asking more and more questions that do not have simple answers and require combining data in new and interesting ways. What is best? What is riskiest? The future of analytics will require data literate analytics communities to argue with data. And in order to do this, they need access to the data. This is what Qlik Data Catalyst delivers.
Thank you for your loyalty to Qlik. We are honored to see our QlikView fans using and maintaining our classic BI solution year after year. We now have some great news for those of you running QlikView v11.2 – Extended Support* will expire on December 31, 2020. This is more than 18 months past our previous commitment to provide Extended Support at least until March 31, 2019.
We hope the new Extended Support expiration date will give you ample time to plan your next steps with Qlik. Whether you choose to stick with QlikView and upgrade to the latest release, adopt QlikView and Qlik Sense dual-use licensing, or dive right into a QlikView-to-Qlik Sense license remix, we’re here to support you on your journey.
We understand moving out of your comfort zone may feel like a leap of faith, but we want to assure you that the Qlik Customer Success organization is committed to delivering the resources you need to maximize your investment. Not only do they already provide assessment, architecture, education, and conversion services for dual-use licensing, but they’re currently developing new offerings to help make it easier to upgrade to the latest release.
The dual-use services offering is described in further detail here.
QlikView and Qlik Sense dual-use licensing gives you a cost-effective way for your QlikView users to adopt Qlik Sense. With dual-use licensing, you’ll benefit from the full functionality of Qlik Sense for new apps and have the opportunity to choose whether to migrate existing QlikView apps to Qlik Sense, so you can leverage its more modern approach. Featuring augmented intelligence for visualization, exploration, search, and data preparation, your Qlik Sense entitlement also delivers value-add products including:Qlik GeoAnalytics Base, Qlik DataMarket Essentials, andQlik Web Connectors.
Please visit the Qlik downloads site for the latest release and reach out to: licenseadmin@qlik.com to discuss Qlik dual-use and remix options. For more information on QlikView 11.2 Extended Support, check out our FAQ.
*Extended support is only available for QlikView 11.20 customers who are current on maintenance. Extended Support is not an extension of standard support and maintenance under the Qlik Support Policy. It consists only of troubleshooting and fixes that are issued as patches at Qlik’s discretion. Only severe, mission critical issues will be considered for resolution in QlikView 11.20, and there will be no product enhancements to QlikView 11.20 as part of Extended Support.
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Qlik Sense was built with the aim of delivering a best of class responsive, fluid user interface, built to be mobile-first and touch-first from ground up. With the Qlik Sense Mobile app, we deliver an experience that is seamless online and offline. Users can consume analytics and dive deep to individual data points, because we understand that today’s businesses move at the speed of thought and you can’t wait until you are “in the office” to get answers to your questions.
Over the years, as adoption has skyrocketed, large and small enterprises have struggled with questions of security and governance of their business-critical analytics, while ensuring that the user does not have to suffer a degraded experience as a result. At Qlik, we are equally committed to providing IT and governance teams with the right tools they can use to govern their mobile BI deployments, and act with confidence, when they need to. We partner with leading Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) platform vendors, such as BlackBerry®, AirWatch®, MobileIron ® and Microsoft® to give our customers a wide range of options to choose from. You can deploy Qlik Sense on a secure browser, over a VPN, as a native app, over a per-app VPN tunnel, within a containerized app environment and more. All of this works seamlessly with SSO solutions, to ensure your users get to their analytics and insights as fast as possible. Admins can set and monitor security policies and govern access, all remotely, all this with no disruption and degradation of the end user experience.
In the February 2019 release, with Qlik Sense Mobile, we have greatly expanded these tools with support for the Microsoft® Intune® platform and Microsoft® Azure® Active Directly Authentication Libraries (ADAL) to allow for seamless SSO with cloud or on-prem active directory deployments. In addition, we have also released an Android app (offline currently not supported but coming soon!) to ensure that users can get all the benefits of a native experience on Android devices too. Finally, we have also expanded support for analytics use cases with deeply integrating mashup support within the Qlik Sense Mobile app. Developers can tag mashups to be optimized when used in a mobile device. Optimized mashups are cached locally so Qlik Sense Mobile will be able to render them extremely fast, with very little network data transfer.
We have an exciting year ahead of us and expect to continue to expand the reach of analytics across every part of the organization and use case. We would love to hear more about your mobile analytics use cases and how mobile is driving adoption and innovative use cases in your organization!
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The Qlik NPrinting February 2019 release is here and contains some exciting new features! In this release, we’ve filled one of the most highly requested gap features from Qlik NPrinting 16: the use of Qlik variables in email reports. This adds to existing variables around user information and report names, allowing you to populate both the body and subject of emails with even more dynamic content. For example, the report date can now be included in the subject line, making it easier for recipients to see exactly which report(s) is enclosed. This also enables you to include KPIs that can be evaluated as Qlik variables, removing the need to create a report template to render this type of information.
(Tip: to add variables into the subject, simply add the variable to the body of the email, and then cut-and-paste it into the subject line.)
We’ve also improved the usability of images from Qlik Sense. Due to the nature in which Qlik NPrinting renders a Qlik Sense image in reports, the responsive design inherent to Qlik Sense can affect the image output. We’ve now included two new parameters in the Qlik NPrinting Designer: data displayed height and data displayed width. These pixel values ensure that the desired range of data and axis labels are rendered for the image in the report. Images can now be scaled reliably and predictably using any of the stretch properties in the Designer.
(Tip: to achieve this in an HTML report, add the desired output size in pixels to the image tag in the template. Please note that this feature is not yet available for PixelPerfect reports.)
Additionally, admins now have greater control over whether error messages are emailed for failed reports. If you don’t want recipients to be notified in the event of a report failure, an edit to the config file will prevent these types of messages from being sent. Stay tuned for even more robust task notification controls from directly inside the Qlik NPrinting web console in an upcoming release.
Finally, Qlik NPrinting can now run in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) environments via a toggle in the config file. Here is a guideline for running Qlik NPrinting February 2019 on a FIPS compliant environment.
A visual description and demonstration of these features can be seen in our What’s New in NPrinting February 2019 video. For more detail on these features, please reference our help site.
Looking forward, we remain committed to closing remaining critical gap features from Qlik NPrinting 16, including task notifications, more filtering options, and a migration tool to cover reporting elements beyond just report templates.
We’re also in the early stages of defining the next generation of reporting, which will center around increased integration into Qlik Sense, greater scalability using new microservices, and self-service in all aspects of reporting, including authoring. These promise to be exciting developments as we reaffirm our commitment and investment to enterprise reporting.
You can hear customer stories and discuss all things NPrinting with subject and product experts at roundtables and breakout sessions at our customer and partner conference, Qonnnections. You can register and see breakout sessions as they are published at www.qlikqonnections.com.
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Do you desire more advanced visualizations with Qlik Sense or require greater mobile support with reliable security measures to expand your mobile workforce? Do you want to leave the data where it is and perform amazingly quick data exploration on your largest data sets? What about enterprise class reporting with comprehensive administrative controls?
The wait is over … Qlik Sense February 2019 has arrived! That’s right – the latest version of Qlik Sense is now live, and it is packed with new features that will not disappoint and will likely start some buzz in the market! To add to the excitement, beyond Qlik Sense, you can also get your hands on Qlik NPrinting enhancements and the open availability of Qlik Associative Big Data Index. There’s so much to get you caught up on, let’s jump right in and review some of the highlights!
To begin, following the success of the Dashboard Bundle released in November, the February 2019 release includes our next exciting extension bundle,the Visualization Bundle. This bundle includes seven of the most popular visualization extensions from our open source community. Below you will find detail on the new advanced chart types that are now available:
Funnel chart– to show progression of a measure through stages
Sankey chart– displays a measure as a flow and how the measure is divided into categories in one or more stages
Radar chart– shows a measure spread on a polar chart with two category dimensions, one for the axes and one for areas
Heat Map– shows a matrix of color values with two dimensions and a measure
Multi KPI object– shows measures with more options and customizations than the standard KPI object
Word Cloud– highlights the most common occurrences in the text dimensions
Network chart– visualizes a graph with dimensions for nodes, parents and measures
These additional chart types dramatically improve how our customers can visualize data. You can look forward to more exciting advancements throughout the year around our extension bundle strategy.
Beyond visualizations, we have made usability enhancements to the Qlik Sense UI to provide a more fluid and natural user experience, using a tabbed metaphor across data, analytics and storytelling. This change will enable fast time to insights with fewer clicks.
We continue to focus on the needs of our customers specific to enriching their authoring experience, and with this, we have added new advanced authoring features. A new addition to the Dashboard Extension Bundle, the Share Button, allows sharing of insights via a direct link that can be added to the canvas. Also, we have added new dollar sign expansion functionality to the expression editor allowing users to evaluate the results of calculations, which reduces the chances of a syntax error.
This release also includes several advancements in the mobile space, as we continue to empower the mobile workforce and drive our market leading mobile strategy. The Qlik Sense February 2019 release includes Qlik Sense Mobile app availability for Android devices and new support for mashups. We have also expanded EMM (Enterprise Mobile Management) capabilities with support for Microsoft InTune – one of the fastest growing EMM platforms in the market. We are leading the pack in mobile threat detection security, now with new Zimperium integration.
While this release is packed with some great new Mobile advancements, this is only the beginning, as this release sets the foundation to drive our ongoing mobile strategy and future roadmap.
Let’s switch gears and talk about some highly requested features and quality improvements for several of our value-added products. Let’s start with Qlik NPrinting. February 2019 provides several highly sought-after features that have been added to Qlik NPrinting, including image scaling for Qlik Sense analytics, support for variables in emails, and FIPS compatibility – making Qlik NPrinting more capable of supporting a wide range of customer requirements and use cases.
Lastly, we are proud to deliver quality improvements across the board to ensure Qlik NPrinting meets the needs of your enterprise reporting requirements.
Finally, we are thrilled to roll out the open GA of our Qlik Associative Big Data Index. Now all our customers can take advantage of this product and embrace any size data set to gain more insights across the organization. This value-added product unlocks the value of large data sets and delivers the Qlik Associative Engine to the biggest data repositories - now you can freely explore and analyze without limits. What’s even more impressive is that the Qlik Associative Big Data Index provides a governed, scalable, high-performance associative experience that can be deployed within sources such as Hadoop-based data lakes, eliminating the need to transfer and prepare the data elsewhere before it can be analyzed. With this, we are confident that big data is simply data to Qlik. Watch this video to learn more about the Qlik AssociativeBig Data Index.
We are off to an exciting year here at Qlik! Subscribe to our blogs and stay informed!
Check out our new Community Qlik Sense Product Forum and don't miss the"What's New" February 2019 Video!
.... and of course,log in with your Qlik ID todownload the latest version!
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The holidays are over, but Qlik is still bringing gifts - this time in the form of a Visualization Bundle. The upcoming Qlik Sense February 2019 release will include a set of seven new visualizations!
We are following the same recipe as the dashboard bundle released in November 2018. The most popular and useful visualizations from the open source community Qlik Branch have been adopted by Qlik and put in a package that the user can choose at install.
Two of the extensions (Funnel and Sankey) are made by Qlik and the others are made by individual developers: Clever Anjos (Word cloud), Alexander Nerush (Multi KPI), Ralf Becher (Heatmap), Brian Booden and Matthieu Burel (Radar) and Michael Laenen (Network).
The extension bundle is an add-on, it is open source and has different terms compared to the rest of Qlik Sense product. The objects are supported by Qlik and fully functional but are limited compared to native charts in certain aspects such as accessibility and right-to-left reading. The feedback so far has been great: users love the easy way to get the new charts and the support at version upgrades.
In my opinion the extension concept is a key element to the success story of Qlik. As a former extension developer (I used to work at Idevio selling mapping extensions) I am still amazed how easy Qlik Sense can be extended!
Funnel Chart
The Funnel chart reminds of vertical descending bar chart with tilted sides. Four rendering modes are supported, where the value is proportional to each segment's: area, height, width or plain ordering. Note that the measure is always descending, no need for a sorting option.
The Funnel chart is popular in sales and marketing and often used to represent stages in a sales process and to show the amount of potential revenue for each stage.
Sankey Chart
The Sankey Chart is type of flow chart, in which the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the flow quantity. The example shows a sales breakdown from product category to country.
Sankey charts put a visual emphasis on the major transfers or flows within a system. They are helpful in locating dominant contributions to an overall flow. Sankey charts was first used in physics to show breakdown of energy efficiency but nowadays popular in web traffic analysis, traffic flows and many other applications.
Radar Chart
The radar chart shows data from three or more variables represented on axes in a polar chart starting from the same point.
All axes have same scale, in this example the product category serve as the main dimension, colored areas. The second dimension the, axis represent KPIs with the same scale.
The radar chart is often used to show comparisons and outliers. One popular use case is feature comparison, for instance with consumer electronic devices. With many dimension values the chart becomes cluttered and then it is often more practical to show multiple charts side by side.
Heatmap
The Heatmap chart is a table of data where the individual values contained in a matrix are represented as colors. Larger values were represented by darker squares and smaller values by lighter squares.
A heatmap is practical for provide quick overview of many values across two dimensions, outliers are easy to spot, much faster than just having numbers in a table.
A similar effect can be achieved using an expression for the background color of the straight table and pivot table but in the heatmap chart you can use the lasso to do a selection in two dimensions at the same time.
Multi KPI
The Multi KPI object offers a range of options and customizations beyond the standard KPI object. You canuse font styling with size, position and color, multiple KPIs with dimension or measures, embed mini chartsusing master visualizations and style with CSS and icons to get the message through.
Presenting KPIs is a great way to summarize information and will look awesome in any dashboard or application.
Word Cloud
The Word cloud is a visual representation of text data. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each tag is shown with font size or color depending on a measure. In text analysis that would be the frequency of the word but any expression can be used.
Font size limits, color ramps and number of text directions are possible to set in the Word cloud. Word clouds origins from text analysis, butwill look great with any nominal data as long as the strings of the values are not too long.
Network Chart
The Network chart is a pictorial representation of the links and nodes of a graph.
The network chart is probably to most demanding chart when it comes to the indata. The chart requires that the data model to bea propergraph description. The following dimensions are expected:
Node id, it has to be numeric, unique, start at 0 and sequential 0,1,2...
Node label
Parent id,that should be referring to the Node Id)
Node group
After that, measures can be added for tooltip, node and link size. The Network chart is useful for analysis of relationships between entities. Popular use cases for network charts are organizational structures, bill of materials, computer network topologies to name a few.
Looking to the Future...
What’s next? The bundle program has been tremendous success and will continue with improvements in the Qlik Sense April 2019 release. The content for that release is still to be decided, so stay tuned for updates on this, asit mightbe your next favorite chart that makes the cut!
I hope you will find good use of the new charts, please try them out! The charts are available in Qlik Sense Desktop and Qlik Sense Enterprise as of the February 2019 release .
See attached for a demo, but Qlik Sense February 2019 is required. You can access the tech preview, here:
The November 2018 release of QlikNPrintingcontainsa number ofenhancements to security and administration.
Within the web console, we’ve madeimprovementstotask management.We added specific permissions around access to the task executions page. A security role can nowincludepermissions for users to view and abort tasks. This previously had been limited to the adminrole butcan now be included as part of a custom role to be assigned to non-admin users.
In addition, we’veaddeda new page dedicated to on-demand request management. From this view, users with the proper security role can view, abort, anddelete on-demand requests made by other Qlik users running QlikNPrintingreports in either QlikView or Qlik Sense(we’ll come back to this later!).
This helps prevent a single on-demand report from taking up too many resources, for example, an unfiltered report containing thousands of pages.
There are alsoseveralsecurity enhancements in this release. Security for the QlikNPrintingMessaging service (RabbitMQ) has been changed from plain text authentication to certificate usage (TLS communication).
We now support authentication for the QlikNPrintingDesigner when there is a reverse proxy in front of the QlikNPrintingServer. Users will authenticate manually upon launching the QlikNPrintingDesigner for the first time. Cookies are collected, and the user will not have to re-authenticate until the cookies expire.
Tohelp prevent downgrade attacks, the QlikNPrintingproxy can use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header.
Finally, a security improvement that uses header X-Frame-Options and frame burstingjavascriptcode prevents cross-frame scripting and clickjacking attacks.
And we would be remiss if we did not mention the delivery of On-Demand reporting for Qlik Sense! Technically, youcanrun on-demand reports with earlier versions of QlikNPrinting,provided thatyou upgrade to Qlik Sense November 2018 (however, youwillwant to upgrade to QlikNPrintingNovember 2018 in order to take advantage of the new functionality around on-demand request management).
As described in thisblog, the on-demand reporting extension is part of the Dashboardextension bundle. It allows users to run reports from within a Qlik Sense app, taking their selections and applying them as filters to the resulting report. The user clicks abutton which will generate a pre-defined QlikNPrintingreportpopulatedwith custom data based on the selections made at the time.
The on-demand extension can be combined withthe show/hide container extensionalso available in the Dashboard bundle. Together, you can create powerful governance over who and when users can access the on-demand reporting capability.
Here is avideoshowing how the extension works.
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Qlik Sense November 2018 has arrived and brings new capabilities that will get you excited! Amongst other things, these enhancements include the introduction of machine learning, new advanced authoring capabilities to better support comparative analysis and guided analytics use cases, and improved visualization and mapping features!
QlikView fans, we understand you’ve been eagerly awaiting the new release… so, we are proud to announce the general availability of QlikView November 2018. This release includes enhancements designed to improve visualizations, global support and performance. One of the most notable improvements to QlikView for November 2018 is the Skia graphics library, replacing the outdated GDI+ library to help support QlikView longevity. With the Skia library, a wide variety of all graphic types are made available via common APIs that work across a various hardware and software platforms for ease of implementation. And, following limited beta testing, many customers reported improved visualizations resulting from the new Skia library. International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries have also been implemented with the November 2018 release. This set of Java and C/C++ libraries supports your globalization goals and provides more consistent application behavior across different platforms and regions through enhanced support for non-English characters, sorting of numeric strings, SET variable formatting, and more.Additionally, we’ve added two new log files, which can be enabled quickly and easily. The Engine Log File validates performance levels and determines where, how and why inefficiencies are occurring within your application. And, the Reload Performance Log can identify which documents in your application are consuming the most resources. One of our beta testers, a customer from a healthcare organization said, "I am impressed with the set of new logs, Engine Log and Performance Log, in QMC to monitor memory and CPU usage down to the object level. In turn, this will help improve overall application and server performance."The "File Exists" task is an interesting enhancement to QlikView Publisher. As a supporting task, File Exists can trigger a follow-on task to the creation of a file in your environment. This is especially helpful when files are created at irregular times within your system.The QlikView November 2018 release includes several other updates, in addition to these highlights. This new video provides a summary of all the updates, and check out the release notes for further details. Explore it for yourself, download QlikView November 2018 today!
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Please take a look at our latest Qlik Community update video to be informed about our latest products, features, resources and upcoming product releases. If you have comments or questions please post them here and one of our Qlik community members or employees will get back to you shortly. Thank you.Qlik Community Update - October / November 2018NOTE: If you cannot see the video because access to YouTube is restricted, please see attached .mp4 to view on your computer or mobile device.
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