As the Qlik partner we received a nice update about today Qlik fortresses. Qlik Forts™ is a new hybrid service that Qlik Sense securely extends SaaS capabilities. It helps you easily store data where you want it: on-premises, in a virtual private cloud or a public cloud. Of Qlik Forts allow organizations to experience the cost savings and performance benefits of SaaS without compromising data location requirements. Unlike other analytics tools required Qlik not all your data to a (Qlik) Cloud to move.
Qlik Forts are pre-configured virtual devices, ready to run in a virtualization/IaaS platform of your choice. The complexity of managing Qlik Forts is handled by Qlik en Qlik ensures that Forts is always up to date with the latest updates.
Data and applications always stay local Qlik Forts, which is hosted behind your own firewall and is only accessible to users on your own network. Administrators manage the deployment as a whole and users have a single point of access to all analytics content, making analytics easy to deploy at scale. The long-awaited release date of this new Qlik Sense SaaS feature is October 26.