February 9, 2021: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

Insight Advisor Search

There are several improvements to the Insight Advisor search-based analysis within Qlik Sense apps. These improvements include:

• Analysis of change over time – Insight Advisor Search will now generate multiple charts for a single analysis type, such as responding with analysis of data between two date periods through a combination of charts.

• Natural language generation – Visual charts generated by Insight Advisor Search now have a new option to view natural language insights and interpretations of the data.

Using natural language with Insight Advisor

Insight Advisor Chat

There are several improvements to the Insight Advisor conversational analytics within Qlik Sense apps. These improvements include:

• Follow-up suggestions: Insight Advisor Chat now offers possible follow up questions for the user, helping drive further analysis and insight.

• Improved context awareness: Insight Advisor Chat improves how it interprets context, in terms of how a question is being handled in the context of a previous question or a new question.

Exploring apps with Insight Advisor Chat

Improved K-means clustering

The new KMeans algorithm can prevent clustering results being skewed by one feature dominating another. Data can now be normalized for analysis with an optional ‘norm’ parameter.

KMeans2D – chart function

Business logic tutorial

There is a new tutorial showing how to improve search-based analysis in Insight Advisor using business logic. By customizing the logical model and adding vocabulary, you can improve the experience for search-based analysis.

Tutorial – Customizing how Insight Advisor interprets data

Master measures in expressions

Users can now reference master measures within expressions, improving productivity and governance.

Using master measures in expressions

Using master measures in expressions

Hidden sheets

App creators can now show or hide sheets based on conditions, enabling them to target different user groups within the same app by tailoring the experience.

Setting a show condition for a sheet

Setting a show condition for a sheet

User-driven reloads

App creators can now add new button actions to provide reload data functionality directly in an app.

Button

Grid chart

A new visualization that uses symbols of varying size sorted in a grid. The grid chart is included in the Visualization bundle.

Grid chart

Grid chart in Qlik Sense

Video player

A new capability that lets you embed and play videos directly in Qlik Sense apps.

Video player

Video player in Qlik Sense

Customizable hub landing page

Qlik Sense SaaS users can now customize the hub landing page by choosing which collections appear on the home page and in what order.

The cloud hub

Customizing the home page in Qlik Cloud

Section access behavior

Alerts can now be evaluated based on whether section access is enabled in the source application.

Monitoring changes in your data with alerts

Recipient limits changed

For apps without section access, there is no recipient limit. For apps with section access, the limit is now 100.

Monitoring changes in your data with alerts

Consolidated SAP connectivity

SAP Bex and InfoProvider connectivity is now available on Qlik Sense SaaS, improving on our end-to-end SAP solutions. This is a new SAP BW connector that merges the InfoProviders and BEx connectors.

Installing SAP transports on SaaS editions of Qlik Sense

New Amazon Athena ODBC connector

The ODBC connectors now include connectivity to Amazon Athena database.

Amazon Athena

Updated Teradata connector including SSO support

Single-sign on lets Qlik Sense to store the credentials separately from a data connection. This provides an option to enforce user-specific credentials and allow a set of credentials to be saved for reuse across multiple connections.

Configuring SSO for the Teradata connector

Merge command in script

A new merge command in Qlik Sense scripting that lets you load only the data that has changed into a Qlik Sense app without having to reload the entire data model.

Merge

New calculation functions

• Coalesce: For returning the first not null expression.

• EmptyIsNull: For identifying empty strings.

• LevenshteinDist: For comparing fuzzy strings.

App performance evaluation

App evaluator is a new feature built into Qlik Sense SaaS to support Sense app developers. The app evaluator will allow an app developer to request a performance evaluation of a Sense app.

Evaluating app performance

Improvements for data security and Section Access

Documentation for managing data security with Section Access has been revamped with a new organizational structure to highlight the levels of security through the use of data reduction. A clear explanation of Section Access concepts, updates to Section Access implementation details, and more authorization script examples have been added.

Managing data security with Section Access