What’s New in Qlik Cloud

2. Changes to Platform Navigation

Qlik has made significant changes to platform navigation to enhance user experience and accessibility. These changes aim to streamline navigation and improve overall usability, ensuring a smoother and more intuitive experience for all users. To manage the transition to the new navigation an enable switch is the Qlik Management Console. We recommend adopting the new navigation, as this will become the standard in the future.

Activity Centres: Introduced as a common anchor point with the waffle menu in the top-left corner, making it easier to navigate the platform.
Focused Areas: Separate areas for consuming insights and creating analytics.
Content Curation: Allows administrators to curate content and insights for consumers.
Parallel Interactions: Enables all users to interact with Insight Advisor Chat and browse content simultaneously.

3. Improvements to Sheet Navigation, Interaction, and the Left Asset Panel

To go with the platform navigation change, Qlik has introduced three great additions to sheets and the asset panel:

Sheet Navigation in Left Asset Panel: Moved for easier access alongside Bookmarks and Notes.
Sheet Grouping: Organise and find sheets more efficiently.
Pinning and Resizing: The left asset panel can now be pinned and resized, making it more readable and flexible.

4. Tabular Reporting Enhancements

Qlik Cloud tabular reporting capabilities have been enhanced to respect locale formatting for dates and numbers in PDF outputs. The enhancements ensure that your reports align with regional formatting standards, providing a more localised and user-friendly experience.

Here’s what you can expect:

Report Tasks: Define locale settings for dates and numbers during task execution when the PDF format is selected.
On-Demand Reports: User’s Qlik Cloud locale determines formatting in PDF reports.
Excel Integration: The user’s Microsoft Excel locale will dictate the formatting in PDF previews generated from the Qlik add-in for Excel.

5. Optimised Experience for Qlik Add-In for Microsoft Excel

The Qlik add-in for Microsoft Excel has been optimised to improve the connection update flow. This makes it easier to reconnect templates to copies of apps or to apps in different spaces or tenants, particularly useful in managed space reconnection scenarios. This feature is key to tabular reporting and will improve the users experience working with managed spaces.

6. Enhancements to the New Straight Table

The new straight table in the Visualisation bundle has two exciting enhancements:

Text Styling by Expression: Use tags to style text (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough) via a second expression.
Modifiers: Transform measures into accumulations, moving averages, differences, or relative numbers with a single dropdown selection.

7. Enhancements to Qlik AutoML

Qlik AutoML now boasts an enhanced user experience and improved capabilities:

Enhanced User Interface: A tabbed interface for navigating various processes in model training.
Intelligent Model Optimisation: Automatically refines models by excluding features that negatively affect performance, ensuring ready-to-deploy models in a single version.
Embedded Analytics: Improved capabilities for model analysis, including detailed comparisons and in-depth performance reviews.

8. New Marketo Connector, ODBC-based

The new Qlik Marketo connector provides seamless access to data stored in a Marketo database. This connector includes all general configuration options directly in the connection definition user interface and supports authentication using either username/password or OAuth.

The previous JDBC-based Qlik Marketo connector cessed to be supported from the end of July 2024.

9. Direct Access Gateway Version 1.6.7

Direct Access Gateway version 1.6.7 includes new capabilities and resolves several issues, including security vulnerabilities. For the best experience and to benefit from these enhancements, we encourage customers to upgrade at the earliest opportunity. Detailed upgrade instructions and a list of resolved issues can be found in the Qlik documentation. If you require support feel free to reach out to us at support@climber.eu.

Automatic Port Allocation: Support for automatic port allocation when working with process isolation, allowing for more than 10 concurrent reload processes.
Enhanced Metadata Paging: When retrieving over 10,000 tables using the SQP SQL connector, tables are now fetched in batches to prevent timeouts.

Several of its key capabilities include:

• Data Marketplace: A centralized platform for discovering and accessing diverse data products.
• Data Product Quality and Profiling: Tools for assessing data quality and profiling metrics.
• Data Product Lineage and Impact Analysis: Visualises the flow and transformations of data, highlighting dependencies.
• Integrated Data Catalogue Experience: Provides a seamless experience for managing and searching data assets.
• Data Product Access Control: Ensures secure and controlled access to data products.
• Data Product Lifecycle Management: Manages the lifecycle of data products from creation to retirement.
• Data Product Consumption: Facilitates the utilisation and tracking of data products across various applications.

9. Many New SaaS Application Connectors for Qlik Talend Cloud

The addition of numerous connectors for popular SaaS applications, such as Salesforce and ServiceNow, expands Qlik Talend Cloud’s integration capabilities. This facilitates seamless data integration from diverse sources, enhancing data availability and analysis.

10. Capacity-based pricing model extended to new Qlik Talend Cloud release

The extension of the capacity-based pricing model to the latest release offers a flexible cost structure based on actual data usage. This model allows organisations to scale their expenses according to their needs, optimising cost efficiency.

11. AI-based SQL Assistant

An AI-powered tool that assists users in crafting SQL queries. This feature aids in query generation, providing suggestions and corrections. Thereby it’s helping both novice and experienced users create accurate and efficient SQL statements more easily.

Conclusion

Qlik’s recent updates and features demonstrate their commitment to improving data management and analysis capabilities. Whether you are focused on data integration, error handling, or analytics, these enhancements offer valuable tools and capabilities to help you make the most of your data. Stay tuned for further updates and innovations from Qlik as they continue to shape the data analytics and integration landscape.