August 2, 2022: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

Direct Query powers SQL pushdown in Snowflake

Now in Qlik Cloud, Direct Query provides the ability for analytics applications to directly query cloud databases like Snowflake with SQL pushdown as users interact with data through visualizations and filtering. Direct Query allows developers to build SQL-centric applications for big data analysis or near real-time scenarios and can be enabled when building a Snowflake data connection.

Accessing cloud databases directly with Direct Query

Direct Query overview

Example questions in Insight Advisor

App creators can now provide example questions in Insight Advisor within the business logic layer of an app. This allows them to customize the questions to their specific analytic content, and thereby help users learn how to use natural language. When users ask questions, the examples appear in a drop-down menu from which users can select, modify, and submit the question. In Insight Advisor Chat, example questions from across your apps will be available.

Adding example questions to Insight Advisor

Support for native data or visualizations through Natural language API and Insight Advisor Chat

Charts generated by Insight Advisor Chat and through the natural language API are now provided as native chart objects instead of images. For users, this provides added interactivity, such as tooltips and scrolling, and better performance. Developers can now use the data contained in these chart objects for additional applications such as custom chart libraries and functionality.

Exploring apps with conversational analytics

New ServiceNow connector

You can now access data stored in ServiceNow. The new ServiceNow connector allows you to include ServiceNow data such as incidents, requests, and case records within your analysis. The new connector includes security options such as OAuth or SSL to ensure that only authorized users can access this data.

ServiceNow Connector

Alation connector support for Application Automation

Application Automation now supports Alation Cloud Catalog with a connector. Alation serves enterprises in organizing and consolidating their data.

Connector blocks