Qlik Unveils New Advanced Intuitive Analytics in Latest Version of Qlik Sense

Qlik Unveils New Advanced Intuitive Analytics
in Latest Version of Qlik Sense

Strengthens cloud-based offerings, mapping and geoanalytics
capabilities, smart vizualizations, advanced analytics integration, and data
preparation

QONNECTIONS 2017, Singapore – May 17, 2017 – Qlik®, a leader in visual
analytics, today previewed  Qlik Sense® June 2017, the newest release of its
next-generation application for self-service business intelligence (BI) and
visual analytics.  Built on a fully integrated, cloud-ready platform, and
powered by the patented QIX Associative Indexing Engine, Qlik Sense combines
enterprise readiness and governance with intuitive visualization and
exploration, advanced analytics, and self-service data preparation
capabilities.  This breadth and depth allows organizations to meet the
broadest range of BI use cases from a single platform leading to consistent,
data-driven decision making.  At its Qonnections 2017 customer and partner
event, Qlik previewed functionality highlighting how the Company will advance
its analytics portfolio to drive greater insight from all data, on premise and
in the cloud, while augmenting the intelligence of users across the enterprise.

“Qlik pioneered the
category for user-driven, governed self-service BI.  With Qlik Sense, we
continue to expand the market by creating a scalable, secure, and cloud-ready
platform that organizations can consider the centerpiece of their
enterprise-wide BI deployment,” said Anthony Deighton, Qlik CTO and SVP of
Products.  “Our platform approach allows us to address a breadth of use
cases with more depth than other offerings.  The openness of the
underlying platform expands opportunities for custom analytics apps, embedded
BI, and developer innovation leveraging new technologies like artificial
intelligence and natural language generation.”

Building Towards
Seamless Hybrid Cloud Analytics

As more and more data
is born in the cloud, an increasing number of customers are also choosing to
embrace visual analytics via the cloud.  With more than 100,000 users
visualizing data withQlik
Sense® Cloud and Qlik
Sense® Cloud Business, groups and businesses
can create, manage and share analytics in the cloud, and access the power of
the Associative Difference via an easy-to-adopt, subscription-based service.  In addition, by leveraging managed
cloud offerings through partners, and online marketplaces including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, Qlik is committed to making it easier and
faster for enterprises to deploy and manage Qlik Sense in the Cloud – on the
customers’ terms.

During Qonnections
2017, Qlik executives laid out the roadmap to seamlessly connect on-premise
deployments of Qlik Sense Enterprise, with cloud-based services, creating an
environment for supporting customers’ evolving needs and choice.  To
achieve this, Qlik is making investments in its core infrastructure to support
the customers’ ability to choose where the data resides, where the analysis
happens, and where and with what device users want to access it. 

“We architected Qlik
Sense and the Qlik Analytics Platform to be cloud ready, and now we’ve embraced
a micro-services architecture that will enable seamless spanning of data and
analysis across infrastructure boundaries,” said Mike Potter, SVP of
Engineering at Qlik.  “This is about customer choice and flexibility,
unprecedented scalability, and achieving significant cost efficiencies for our
customer base.”

  

As another proof point
in its roadmap to Hybrid Cloud Analytics, Qlik now offers several new client
options for use with Qlik Sense Enterprise and Qlik Sense Cloud.  Qlik
Sense Mobile is a new, native app for Apple iOS, which supports the full
associative model when offline, with the QIX engine running locally on the
device, and integrates with EMM products such as AirWatch, MobileIron, and
Blackberry.  In addition, Qlik Sense Desktop is now offered as a supported
client when used in Qlik Sense Enterprise environments.  These options
provide more flexibility for customers and help bring visual analytics directly
to the point of decision.

Because people do not make decisions alone,
value-added services like Qlik Connectors will always be an important part of
the Qlik Cloud strategy.  As such, Qlik is including Qlik Connectors in Qlik Sense Cloud Business
for seamless access to REST sources, Google Analytics, Facebook and Twitter,
with enhanced support for tabular sources such as CSVs and Excel files and
connectivity and automated refresh capabilities.  Additional connectivity
is rapidly being added, including SQL Server via ODBC for on-premise data,
followed by cloud-based file storage services such as Dropbox and
Box.com.     

Qlik’s cloud first,
continuous release cycle delivers feature enhancement to Qlik Sense Cloud as
soon as they are ready.  Therefore, several of the Qlik Sense June 2017
app creation, visual analysis, and data prep features are immediately available
in Qlik Sense Cloud.  Users are encouraged to log into their free Qlik Sense Cloud account now to experience the new
capabilities.

Best-in-Class Enhancements Make App
Creation and Data Prep More Intuitive

Qlik Sense now includes several new visualization
types, including a Box Plot, Distribution Chart, and Histogram that will
empower users to make better sense of their data.  Users will also be able
to apply custom coloring to particular data values within master dimensions,
providing consistency across an entire application.  In addition, search
history now makes it easier than ever to go back to previous analyses. 

Qlik Sense also offers improved smart data preparation
capabilities for business users to load, transform, and enrich their data
without the need for complex scripting. 

·  Visual data profiling assists users in understanding their
data as they load it into Qlik Sense, including auto-generated visual
representations of the data through histograms and other visualizations. 
This greatly speeds up the ability for users to get to the point of analysis
with new information.

·  Data binning enables users to easily create data ‘bins’ or
groups of numeric data, allows for easier analysis with granular numeric
data.  For example, users can now easily bin data into groups such as
small, medium, and large.

·  Table concatenation allows users to easily concatenate tables even
if they do not have the same fields and field names.  Now customers and
partners can bring tables from two companies together even if they do not store
data the same way.

Finally, Qlik
Connectors™ now provides connectivity to hundreds of data sources, including
file-based sources such as Excel® and XML, enterprise sources such as Oracle®,
SAP, and ODBC databases, web-based sources such as Salesforce.com, and big data
sources including Teradata, Cloudera, and others.  In addition, connectors
to Salesforce.com and SAP HANA have been enhanced by offering improved
performance.  Qlik Web Connectors have grown to include more than 40 to
popular web applications and services such as Bit.ly, Google® Search Console,
Google® AdWords™, Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM, and more.

Expanded Enterprise
Capabilities Empower Associative Search Experience for Big Data

Qlik’s big data
capabilities have been enhanced to include On Demand App Generation templates
built directly into Qlik Sense, enabling users to navigate big data sources
using associative search to discover areas for detailed analysis.  On
Demand App Generation empowers the user to automatically generate a
purpose-built analysis app every time they select a slice of a very large data
source.  Now, self-service users can get up and running with big data
easier and faster. 

Advanced Analytics
Integration, GeoAnalytics Strengthen Qlik Platform Offerings

Through its open APIs,
Qlik now offers integration with best-in-class natural language generation and
processing, advanced predictive analytics, and an immersive experience
including augmented intelligence.  New advanced predictive analytics
integration capability allows for direct data exchange between the QIX engine
and third-party calculation engines.  Qlik has released integrations using
this interface for R and Python.  This allows for advanced calculations
from external tools to be visualized within Qlik Sense, in real-time as the
user explores.  With this capability, users can combine the power of
Qlik’s Associative Model with advanced analytics to better support use cases
such as fraud detection, sales forecasting, and inventory management.

With the newest
edition to the Qlik portfolio – Qlik GeoAnalytics™ — both Qlik Sense and QlikView® users can easily add
maps to their apps with automatic geo-data lookup to reveal crucial spatial
information and then overlay them with different visualizations to see the
whole story in their data.  Users can not only seamlessly drill down into
information dense maps that contain millions of points, but also use Qlik
GeoAnalytics cloud-based service to analyze geo-data in combination with
non-geo data for use cases such as determining potential store locations or
calculating supply chain delivery times.  Several geospatial and mapping
improvements have been made, such as supporting shapes, drill down, multi-layer
maps, and increased data density.

“With our
industry-leading global partner network at the ready to bring these solutions
to market and our rapidly growing community of developers, we’ve hit an
exciting point in the next phase of industry leadership, extending beyond
visual analytics,” continued Deighton.

About Qlik

Qlik® is the leading
visual analytics platform and the pioneer of user-driven business intelligence.
Its portfolio of cloud-based and on-premise solutions meets customers’ growing
needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and
custom analytics, regardless of where data is located. Customers using Qlik
Sense®, QlikView® and Qlik® Cloud, gain meaning out of information from
multiple sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to
insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik
does business in more than 100 countries with over 40,000 customers globally.