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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

 

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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.

 

 

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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.   

 

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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.

 

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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 Associative Big 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 to download the latest version!  

 

Can't see the video? YouTube blocked by your region or organization? Download the .mp4 attached to this post to watch on your computer or mobile device.

 

Click here to register for the Qlik Insider Webinar to learn about this release and more

28 Comments
AguWolkovicz
Partner - Contributor II
Partner - Contributor II

Hi!

I'm having trouble finding the Release Notes document.

Where is it available?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Agu.-

 

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Michael_Tarallo
Employee
Employee

Hi Agu - they are available in Qlik Help and in the customer downloads site:

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/February2019/Content/Sense_Helpsites/WhatsNew/What-is-new-Feb2019....

Thanks!

Mike

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stevenkoppens
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III

Great update! Would be nice if a future release would include a refresh button for the single-configurator in the dev-hub (or maybe an option to show/retrieve the object ID's in Qlik Sense itself). Would make our life easier when retrieving object ID's for mashups!

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paul_scotchford
Specialist
Specialist

QS just keeps getting better and better! Just love it! 

@Sandip perhaps Tableau may be prettier but I would rather have the Associative Model capability over prettiness any day!

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millerhm
Partner - Creator
Partner - Creator

@stevenkoppens  - not sure if this is officially supported or not, but if you add "/options/developer" to the end of your Sense app url, you'll enter dev mode and when you right click on an object, you'll see a "developer" option, which when selected includes the object id! Super time saver for mashups and nprinting!

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paul_scotchford
Specialist
Specialist

@millerhm 

Hi, this is available in the April release too (what we currently have on our Enterprise Server) 

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federerman
Contributor III
Contributor III
This looks like a great update! I am curious how the new UI update with the tabbed Data/Analysis/Story looks once the app is published. One problem I've had with Qlik Sense is sharing what the data model looks like with end users and other developers. Once the app is published, the menu options for the "Data Manager", "Data Load Editor", and "Data Model Viewer" are no longer available. This new tabbed experience has me wondering if this changes anything. I would love to throw a new user into a published app and show them the data model. This would help them get an idea of what data is available in the app when they start poking around. Also, looking forward to the Qlik Big Data Index!
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stevenkoppens
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III
@millerhm thanks for the tip! this would be really nice to have, unfortunately I'm not able to get this working (tried on our server and locally, both are on the feb '19 release). Any idea what I could be doing wrong?
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millerhm
Partner - Creator
Partner - Creator

@stevenkoppens  - not sure - I'm on Nov 18 and have been using the dev mode for several releases, so it's not new. My URL ends up looking like this:

......com/sense/app/########/sheet/########/state/analysis/options/developer

and then right click on an object displays the contextual menu Paul added above.

 

 

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morenoju
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist

Hi all,

Have any of you tried the new February 2019 version of Qlik Sense on a Windows 2008 server?

My understanding is that Windows Server 2016 is recommended, but I'd like to know if any of you gave it a try in 2008?

Thanks,

Juan

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