QConnections 2018
Qlik Qonnections 2018 is a conference that customers, users and partners of Qlik brings together. Insights, knowledge and experience are shared with each other in the field of Business Intelligence (BI) and Qlik. Qonnections is also the place where all new plans are announced. New CEO Mike Capone kicked off his 24 customers in Orlando (USA) on April 48.000. Below is a brief summary of the entire event.
General
In a general sense, below are the four most important points that were mentioned at Qonnections 2018
- Qlik is committed to the entire product portfolio. Substantial investments will be made in further development of both QlikView as Qlik Sense.
- Qlik will provide the roadmap for the development of the product Qlik Speed up sense considerably.
- Qlik the optional migration process goes from QlikView to Qlik Improve sense.
- Qlik will come with 1 license for both QlikView as Qlik Sense with an improved user experience (one user, one experience, one entitlement). When this licensing model will come into effect and what fee will be in return is not yet known. More on that later.
Qlik cognitive analytics
Qlik has made a lot of progress in the field of combining Business Intelligence
with artificial intelligence (AI). Bee Qlik they call these cognitive capacities
"The beast". This is able to come up with meaningful things throughout the development cycle
suggestions. This includes the automatic generation of the correct types of diagrams,
correct measured values and own (significant) findings in the data based on statistics.
There will be a “bell” in the screen as Qlik discovered something special in the data
what you would like to look at as an analyst. When these features become available on the
roadmap is not yet known, perhaps already in the June release of Qlik Sense.
Associative Big Data Index
The Associative Big Data Index is a new cloud service from Qlik which is the associative experience of Qlik will expand with big data. The power of association is transferred from the user interface to the underlying ecosystem of all (big) data. With this new capability, the Qlikengine index and save data from Datalakes and Hadoop, without having to load all the data into memory first. The Associative Big Data Index then enables data discovery on huge data volumes with full access to all details of the underlying data. This gives users the opportunity to search through enormous amounts of data in a simple manner. For big data there is also ODAG (on-demand app generation). This means that you first downdrilled to specific data and then retrieve detailed data in a temporary one Qlik Sense app that is created on demand. We see a lot of added value for this feature with users who want to make apps available to their customers without pre-loading everything into memory. As soon as a customer logs on, an app will be prepared on-demand with only his data and removed again when the session has ended.
Multi-cloud solution
Heard a lot about it and read a lot about it but it seems that the Multi-cloud solution from Qlik it will finally come. The increasing amount of data, the complexity and the strategic importance of that data for organizations makes strategic choices for the cloud essential. With the Multi-cloud solution from Qlik an organization has complete freedom and flexibility, even after delivery and implementation. The cloud- and container-based device can be scaled up in a simple manner, across different locations and cloud environments. As a result, users all have the same analysis options, regardless of location, device or network. Management is done entirely from one interface.
Qlik Sense release June 2018
The June 2018 release has a number of nice new features in store.
Below is a summary of what can be expected:
- More customization: More customization options in the graphic design
of Qlik Sense. Do you need help with the design? Some of our consultants
are specialized in it, they are happy to help you with it. - Qlik Insight Advisor: Automatic generation of full dashboard apps and
objects based on the imported data. With a measurement value, Qlik direct
understand how best to display these and give proactive advice. - Association Recommendations: Improved data modeling and association recommendations.
- Accelerated Self-Service: Qlik offers the end user even easier and faster visualization of the data.
- Multi layer maps: Improved GEO map functions.
Qlik Core
Qlik Core is a new product (currently still beta) and is a cloud development platform for developers. With an Open Source distribution model delivers Qlik Core de Qlik Associative Engine with supporting APIs and libraries for integration into non-dashboard projects. More on this soon.