Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Systems development lifecycle (SDLC) with the Qlik Active Intelligence Platform -Part 1

Most organizations follow some form of Systems development lifecycle (SDLC) and incorporate this into their analytics lifecycle. For Qlik customers moving from a client-managed environment (Windows on-premise) to Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS; they have multiple environments such as Development, Test and Production and are uncertain how to map this to a SaaS environment. Question: Can this be done in one SaaS tenant, or is a tenant required for each tier?

Qlik Lineage Connectors Brief Overview and Use Case

Qlik Lineage Connectors is a new offering that provides lineage related insights for QlikView, Qlik Sense client-managed and other on premise BI applications and data sources such as Tableau, PowerBI, Oracle, Azure SQL and Snowflake. It also offers a visual data lineage capability integrated with Qlik Sense SaaS, allowing you to see the complete history of those assets without having to access multiple systems. In this scenario I am considering migrating my Windows on-premise Qlik Sense client-managed environment over to Qlik Sense SaaS.

SaaS in 60 - KPI background Color (other KPI improvements)

This week we introduce a simple style improvement to the KPI chart object. KPI charts provide simple summarized views of your data that help track the performance of your metrics – better known as Key Performance Indicators. In case you missed it - a number of styling improvements have been implemented over time such as responsive behavior, a large library of conditional symbol icons, custom color schemes and alignment options.

SaaS in 60 - New Qlik Application Automation Connectors

Recently we added some Data Warehouse connectors for Amazon Redshift, Google Big Query and Snowflake allowing your workflows to utilize data management operations such as inserts, deletions, updates, SQL queries and even API requests. We’ve also added a connector to work with our new automated machine learning environment AutoML as well as a number of remote application and event management connectors that work with Dbt, UI Path and Splunk.

Qlik Sense SaaS in 60 - Auto-generated period over period analysis dashboard

This week we introduce new Insight Advisor auto-generated period over period analysis chart types presented in the form of a period over period analysis dashboard. Exploring data in Discovery Mode, using Insight Advisor, will automatically create a period over period analysis dashboard for you to explore when using date fields and those defined calendar periods within business logic.