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Hi QlikCommunity.
I thought this was the best place to search for great arguments on "Why you should upgrade to the newest version of Qlik".
I'm interested in knowing why an upgrade (and which one) have been important for you (and your company).
The versions i have right now are:
QlikView 12.1 SR6
NPrinting November 2017
Sense 3.2 SR4
I want to upgrade to the newest version (November 2018) but before doing that, it would be really helpful if some of you could enlighten me on the benefits.
Cheers
Each major release has a list of upgrades in its release notes - you can go over those and see if any of those changes are important to you. There's no way to guess which may or may not match your specific implementation and needs/wants. For QlikView, this is once per year, so you only have to look at two versions at the moment (and I would not recommend installing 12.3 November 2018 until some initial bugs are resolved in service releases). For Sense, the 10-week release schedule means there's more to cover, and Qlik seems to put a lot more effort into adding functionality to Sense than they do to View, so there's more incentive to upgrade regularly.
Insofar as upgrading service release builds - those are typically just bug-solving, so if you aren't experiencing bugs, you don't really have to upgrade.
My own personal recommendation: Upgrade Sense as often as you're willing to test new versions, and upgrade QlikView only if the new version has something you want (features or resolution to specific bugs) or your old version is out of support (12.1 has another year of support left, so plenty of time if you want to wait for 12.3 to stabilize).
Each major release has a list of upgrades in its release notes - you can go over those and see if any of those changes are important to you. There's no way to guess which may or may not match your specific implementation and needs/wants. For QlikView, this is once per year, so you only have to look at two versions at the moment (and I would not recommend installing 12.3 November 2018 until some initial bugs are resolved in service releases). For Sense, the 10-week release schedule means there's more to cover, and Qlik seems to put a lot more effort into adding functionality to Sense than they do to View, so there's more incentive to upgrade regularly.
Insofar as upgrading service release builds - those are typically just bug-solving, so if you aren't experiencing bugs, you don't really have to upgrade.
My own personal recommendation: Upgrade Sense as often as you're willing to test new versions, and upgrade QlikView only if the new version has something you want (features or resolution to specific bugs) or your old version is out of support (12.1 has another year of support left, so plenty of time if you want to wait for 12.3 to stabilize).
Thanks for taking your time in explaining this.
I will try to keep in mind to upgrade Sense as often as possible, while updating QlikView and service builds if the update features a specific resolution on a relevant problem/feature i'm facing.