December 13, 2022: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

Qlik Cloud reporting with PowerPoint

Qlik Cloud reporting capabilities now support PowerPoint output for report compositions. Both subscriptions and Qlik Application Automation reports can be generated in PowerPoint. This means that reports can be edited after generation.

Sheets can now have custom background image and colors, so your PowerPoint reports will automatically have corporate styling applied. App developers now have more control over object placement and sheet grid size to support advanced formatting for presentations.

Tutorial – Designing sheets for PowerPoint reports

SaaS in 60: PowerPoint Output – Subscriptions and Report Service (Qlik Application Automation)

PowerPoint Output Format – Subscription and Report Service Walkthrough

Product Innovation blog – PowerPoint Report Format

Manage load scripts history in Data load editor

The new history panel allows app developers to save and commit different versions of the load script. Selecting previous versions allows you to preview them and, if needed, restore an older version.

Managing data load script history

Support for Unity Catalog in Databricks data connections

Databricks connections now support Unity Catalog, a unified governance solution for data and AI assets including files, tables, machine learning models. In Unity Catalog, administrators and data stewards manage users and their access to data centrally across all of the workspaces in an Azure Databricks account. Users in different workspaces can share access to the same data, depending on the privileges granted.

Create a Databricks connection

Times series forecasting in Insight Advisor

Insight Advisor can now perform time series forecasting with the new Trend with forecast analysis type. Business users and analysts often monitor their measures as a trend over time. With time series forecasting they can estimate how the historical sequence of observations will continue into the future. The ability to predict how trend lines are likely to evolve can inform strategy and decision-making.

Insight Advisor analysis types

Creating visualizations with Insight Advisor

Updates to Qlik Sense Mobile SaaS

Qlik Sense Mobile SaaS now includes the following improvements: 

• The mobile table object has better rendering and performance, while continuing to support mini-charts, images, totals, and search. New features include row counts, expand/transpose row, and the ability to copy cells.

• Landscape mode sheet navigation has been updated, adding a quick and easy way for users to switch between sheets using native gestures.

• Application chaining is now supported, allowing users to persist filters across multiple apps.

• KPI objects look better in full-screen mode.

• Warning messages have been standardized.

These capabilities demonstrate our ongoing investment in bringing next-in-class mobile capabilities to our customers – delivering the unique power of our associative engine to drive insight at the point of decision.

SaaS in 60 – Qlik Sense SaaS Mobile Improvements

Exploring analytics with Qlik Sense Mobile SaaS

GeoOperations analytics sources wizard

GeoOperations now includes three analytic connections that contain all necessary functions to generate GeoOperations scripts, simplifying the creation of geospatial calculations.

GeoOperations analytics sources

New template for Application Automation: App evaluation

This template performs an evaluation on a Qlik Sense app to determine if the app should be published or not. If the results from the evaluation indicate that the app does not contain any slow cached objects, the app will be published, and a notification email is sent. If the app does contain slow cached objects, it will not get published, and an email is sent out describing the error. You can modify this automation to validate other results from the evaluation or to send out alerts to another notification channel such as Microsoft Teams or Slack.

How to do an app evaluation in Qlik Application Automation

Receive notifications for AutoML experiments

Notifications can be sent when an ML deployment is created, an experiment version is ready, a model has completed training, or a prediction is created.

Profile settings

New Amazon S3 connectors with enhanced security

Qlik Cloud has two new connectors: Amazon S3 Metadata V2 and Amazon S3 V2 Web storage provider. These connectors are more secure because they use the Amazon S3 API to access your Amazon S3 metadata, such as the names of files and subfolders in your Amazon S3 bucket. Previous versions of these connectors used the REST API. For now, the initial release of the Amazon S3 connectors V2 and the existing Amazon S3 connectors have the same capabilities. However, new capabilities will only be added to the V2 connectors going forward.

At some point in the future, the previous Amazon S3 connectors will no longer be supported.

Amazon S3 Metadata V2

Amazon S3 V2

Improved user management in the Management Console

The Management Console has been stream-lined and enhanced. Administrators can now see roles from groups in the Roles column. The User ID, IdP subject, and Invite expiry columns have been removed.

Administrators can see the invitation status by selecting Pending invites in the drop-down list, or by selecting Pending invites in the Status column. Hover over the invite to see the expiry date.

Adding users to Qlik Sense

Control chart animations

Chart animations are the gradual transitions in a visualization from the old view to the new view when data has been changed, for example, after a selection has been made. Animations can be turned on or off under app settings.

Animations can be controlled in the following chart types:

• Bar charts

• Pie charts

• Scatter plots

• Funnel charts (Visualization bundle)

• Grid charts (Visualization bundle)

• Sankey charts (Visualization bundle)

Changing the chart animations