Roadmap 2018

Innovation in the Analytics Economy

October 2018

David Sedgwick

Principal Solution Architect Pre-Sales UK

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Planned Product Releases in 2018

Nov 2018

Feb 2018

June November

10 Week Milestone

February SeptemberApril

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Apr 2018 Jun 2018 Sep 2018 Nov 2018

Initial Release

Core®

Continuous cloud delivery

Value Added Products

Data and Connectivity

Ongoing releases

Qlik Sense® Release Cadence

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

New naming and version numbering | Patches replace SRs | Each release supported for 2 years

Milestone Planning Development Time Enablement, Previews, Communication

Development Milestones

Five approximately two-week beats

Milestone Planning Development Preview & Release

Delivery goal is every 10 weeks

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What’s New at Qlik

What’s new at Qlik® : 2017–2018

Qlik Sense

Cloud®

2018 Ongoing

Core Qlik Sense

enhancements

Group level

management and

collaboration

New connectors

and direct data

connectivity

Qlik

GeoAnalytics®

April 2018

Location based

analytics for QV

and QS

Mapping,

calculation and

geocoding

New Qlik Sense

map object

Connectivity

and Data

2017 Ongoing

New connectors for

cloud and

enterprise

Qlik DataMarket

topical packages

Enhanced SAP and

Oracle connectivity

QlikView®

12.2

Nov 2017

Advanced analytics

integration

Web client

enhancements

Management and

performance

improvements

Qlik

NPrinting®

June 2018

Report cycles,

import/export, and

embedded reports

Pivot table and

extension support

Management and

performance

improvements

Qlik Sense®

Enterprise

June 2018

Enhanced

visualization and

data preparation

Augmented

Intelligence

Multi-cloud

architecture and

services

Qlik Analytics

Platform®

April 2018

New APIs and

capabilities

API Insight for

detail on changes

Third-party

certifications

Release Highlights: February 2018

Qlik Sense® Enterprise

Custom Themes

Qlik Sense Mobile for iPhone

New Associations Workflow

Panel (in Data Prep)

ODAG Enhancements

Other Improvements

Qlik Connectors®

Oracle Connector Performance

Enhancements

SAP Connector Update

SSO for MS SQL Server

Qlik DataMarket®

New Healthcare Packages

Detailed US Demographic

Package

Qlik NPrinting®

Non-Windows Authentication

Release Highlights: April 2018

Qlik Sense® Enterprise

Accelerated Self-Service

New Mapping Object

New Layout, Accessibility, and

Publishing Options

Enhanced EMM Support in Qlik

Sense Mobile

Qlik Sense Desktop Offline

Trials

Qlik Sense® Cloud

Accelerated Self-Service

New Mapping Object

UI and Navigation

Enhancements

Download Charts as Images

Expanded Connectivity

Qlik DataMarket®

New Healthcare Packages

Qlik NPrinting®

SAML Authentication

Improved stability and

monitoring

Release Highlights: June 2018

Qlik Sense® Enterprise

Insight Advisor

Accelerated Self-Service

Enhancements

Accessibility and Compliance

Advanced Authoring

Visualization Improvements

Multi-Cloud Architecture and

Cloud Services

Qlik Sense® Cloud

Insight Advisor

Accelerated Self-Service

Enhancements

Accessibility and Compliance

Advanced Authoring

Visualization Improvements

Qlik NPrinting®

Pivot Table Support

Kerberos Authentication

Support

Monthly / yearly scheduling

Template editing during report

preview

Qlik Connectors®

New Beta Connectors

Updated SAP Connector

Package with extended

functionality

Connector authentication and

encryption update

Web connector enhancements

and API updates

What’s New in Qlik Sense: As of Sep 2018

And many additional improvements in areas such as analytics, accessibility, and management

Accelerated Self-Service

Advanced Analytics Integration

Advanced Authoring

Multi-Cloud Architecture

New Visualizations and Map

Qlik Sense Mobile (offline)

Insight Advisor

Data Prep Enhancements

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• QlikView 12.x features- Second generation Qlik Associative

Engine- Unbalanced server clusters- Improved scalability for QlikView

Server, AccessPoint, and Publisher- Management and performance

improvements

• QlikView 12.2- Advanced analytics integration- Web client enhancements- Management and performance

improvements

QlikView® 12.2 – November 2017

Augmented Intelligence Innovation Strategy

Lower the barrier to widespread adoption

• Assist users during data prep, with

association recommendations, profiling,

and automation

• Accelerate the creation of visualizations

with auto-generated charts and

suggestions

• Assist users during analysis with

recommendations for new visualizations

• Help drive data literacy by incorporating

natural language interaction

Insight Acceleration

Democratize analytics and insight generation

• Auto-generate statistically significant

insights, focusing on outliers, trends, and

key drivers

• Auto-generate predictive and prescriptive

analyses

• Leverage the Qlik Associative Engine

to provide associative insights based on

context, through the power of grey

• Improve the cognitive system through

machine learning

• Offer value for developers by exposing

cognitive engine APIs

Insight Automation

Connect people and ideas through data

• Assist users by recommending relevant

content based on role or function

• Learn user patterns and preferences in

order to improve content

recommendations

• Capture, manage and share insights in a

seamless fashion

• Activate insights by supporting goal

setting, tasks, approvals, and deadlines

• Monitor and alert users to important

system, social and data activity

Collective Intelligence

Our AI innovation strategy is based on three core areas – accelerating trusted insights for faster time

to value, automating insight generation, and harnessing collective intelligence

Qlik Sense® Enterprise

Visual

Analytics

• Visualization improvements

− Time based forecasting (trendlines)

− Always one selected

• Improved table object

• Trellis charts / small multiples

• Mini charts in tables

• New visualizations

• Comparative analysis

• Trellis charts / small multiples

• Dynamic grouping / binning

• Improved controls for objects

• New visualizations

Search and

Natural

Language

• Search performance improvements • Search-based analytics across apps • Natural language search

• Conversational analytics

• Search-based analytics as a service

Augmented

Intelligence

• Machine learning – from the user and the

analytics ecosystem

• Associative insights – contextual insights

based on selection state and gray values

• Augmented data stories – highlighting

changes in users data

• Content recommendations – based on

popularity

• Improved performance for advanced

analytics integrations with R and Python

• Machine learning – from external domain

specific sources

• Statistically generated insights and

forecasting

• Multi-attribute analysis – Visually explore

using cohort analysis

• Content recommendations – leveraging

collective intelligence

• Data enrichment suggestions from Global

Library

• Predictive and prescriptive analytics

• Recommendations for goals, tasks and

approvals around insights

6 months 12 months 24 months

Qlik Sense® Enterprise

Advanced

Authoring

• Open default sheet

• Expression editor improvements

− Help access

− New list of aggregation functions

− ‘Distinct’ and ‘Total’ settings

• New button controls for action

• Alternate states

• Set sheet size

• Show / hide sheets

• Expression editor improvements

− Syntax coloring

• New input controls such as slider and

calendar

• New container objects for stacking and

show / hide visualizations

• Presentation improvements for fonts,

colors, and backgrounds

• Improved theme control and management

• Presentation improvements such as

tooltips and labeling

Data

Preparation

• Improved workflow and navigation

• Improved NULL handing

• Enhanced splitting of auto-concatenated

tables

• Advanced data transformations – joins

• Select all tables option for file connector

• Hide fields from sheet during data prep

• Formatting of calculated fields

• Multi select of columns during unpivoting

• Geographic field classification

improvements

• Advanced data transformations – interval

matching (e.g. for currency translation)

• User access control for data prep

Collaboration

• Insight sharing – bookmarks and chart

snapshots

• Multi-cloud hub – self-service publishing,

favoriting and content following

• Insight library – management of apps,

bookmarks, snapshots, auto-generated

insights (from advisor), etc.

• Notifications and alerts – based on

system, social and data driven insights

• Annotations and discussion threads

• Storytelling 2.0 – refreshable stories,

presentation improvements

• Insight library – management of charts,

reports, stories, alerts, mashups,

associative insights

• Insight sharing – Charts, sheets and

stories with messaging, social platforms

and content management systems

• Multi-cloud hub – Social BI – liking tagging

favoriting, rating, etc.

• Insight library – self-service digests, tasks,

goals, approvals

• Automate and orchestrate workflows

through Qlik platform

6 months 12 months 24 months

Qlik Sense® Enterprise

Mobile

Analytics

• Qlik Sense Mobile (for iOS)

− Per app VPN for MobileIron

− Support for Blackberry EMM

• Qlik Sense Mobile (for Android)

− Online only

• Qlik Sense Mobile (for iOS)

− TouchID and FaceID support

− MTLS support

− Auto download of updated offline apps

− Offline mashups

• Qlik Sense Mobile (for Android)

− Full offline support

• Offline content creation on mobile apps

• Qlik Associative Engine available for 3rd

party app integration on mobile platforms

Desktop Client

• Unified client for desktop and mobile

• Multi-Cloud desktop client with online and

offline functionality

• Offline Mashup support

• Ongoing enhancements

Multi-Cloud

• Content augmentation, add sheets and

extend existing apps

• Improvements to multi-cloud hub

• Support for additional cloud vendors

• Extend identity provider integration

including SAML

• Full content authoring

• Data preparation and integration

• Support for extensions on Qlik Cloud

services

• Support for multiple deployments with

policy driven distribution

• New managed service provider (MSP)

cloud hosting options from partners

• Global resource library

• Support for ODAG

• Mobile offline support

6 months 12 months 24 months

Multi-Cloud Innovation Strategy

Please note that multi-cloud features are included for all Qlik Sense

Enterprise customers current on maintenance, with the exception of

Qlik Cloud Services which requires a subscription license.

Public/Private CloudCustomer Managed

Qlik CloudServices

Region A

On-Premise

Region B

On-Premise

Policy Based

Content Distribution

Scale App

Consumption

June 2018

Augment &

Collaborate

Create & Edit

Anywhere

Adopt cloud on your terms

• Ongoing choice

• New capabilities, same product

Common elastic cloud architecture

• Multi-site, multi-cloud

• Economic scaling

• Policy-driven

• Single license, single login

Qlik Sense® Cloud

Analytics

• Ongoing enhancements to user

experience

• Ongoing enhancements to user

experience

• Support for certified extensions

• Ongoing enhancements to user

experience

Collaboration

• Download chart (services) • Download sheets and stories (services) • Share charts, sheets and stories

− Via. email

− With messaging, social platforms and

content management systems

Business

Edition

• Continued expansion of data connectivity • Continued expansion of data connectivity • Continued expansion of data connectivity

6 months 12 months 24 months

Qlik Analytics Platform®

Platform

Developers

• Picasso/Enigma integration API

• Learning Hub – New learning resources

for developers

• DevHub updates – For building

standalone components and data models

• Single Configurator – Integrated within

Qlik Sense Enterprise

• DevHub Updates – For building projects

including versioning of standalone

developer content

• Mobile SDK for embeddable engine

Extensions

• Trusted extension developer program

launch

• Private extensions certification • Extension versioning

OEM

• Versioning & source control for QSE

projects

• White labelling of Qlik Sense Enterprise • App promotion across environments

Qlik Market

• Launch of trusted extension developer

content within Qlik Market

• Integration of Qlik Market into Qlik Sense

user experience

6 months 12 months 24 months

Qlik Core®

Custom

Analytics

• Qlik Core – Qlik Associative Engine based

applications deployed on elastic backbone

• Playground 2.0 – Bring your own data,

explore more of the engine API

• Qlik Core - Expanded developer tooling,

tutorials and examples

• Marketplace – Qlik Core hosted by 3rd

party venues

• Developer programs

• Platform as a Service - Qlik Core as an

endpoint for cloud developers

• Playground - Value added content

Platform

Developers

• Picasso/Enigma integration API

• Learning Hub – New learning resources

for developers

• Extensions 2.0

6 months 12 months 24 months

QlikView® Innovation Strategy

Continued enhancements to the QlikView

product:

• New server functionality

• New engine level capabilities

• Performance, scalability, and management

improvements

• Support for ongoing security requirements

Product

Capabilities to simplify and improve dual

deployments:

• Single user license and common license

management

• Dual-use licensing offer

• Single point of access for users

• Simplified management, scheduling, and

administration

• Advanced authoring in Qlik Sense for new

guided analytics apps

• Transition tools and services to move

intellectual property from QV to QS

Coexistence

QlikView as a component of Qlik’s Multi-Cloud

strategy:

• QlikView access in multi-cloud hub

• Integration of QlikView into Qlik’s multi-

Cloud strategy

Multi-Cloud

Our QlikView innovation strategy is based on three core areas – enhancements to the QlikView

product, improved capabilities for coexistence with Qlik Sense, and multi-cloud integration.

This strategy represents the foundation of our long-term commitment to QlikView, with ongoing support and annual product releases.

QlikView®

12 Months 24 Months

Client

• Web client performance improvements • Ongoing enhancements

Server

• Improvements to Advanced Analytics Integration

• Ongoing support for latest security requirements

• Ongoing support for latest security requirements

• Support for NAS / file share technologies

Management

• IPv6 support within QlikView server

• Trigger reloads when file exists

• Simplified management of large volumes of QMC content (tasks,

documents, users)

Performance

• Programming interface upgrades

• Ongoing performance and scalability improvements

• Ongoing performance and scalability improvements

Coexistence

• Single license for combined QlikView / Qlik Sense users

• Common license management

• QlikView access in multi-cloud hub

• Common scheduler

Value Added Products – Analytics

Qlik NPrinting®

• Additional improvements to user

management and authentication

• Improvements to QlikView and Qlik Sense

on-demand reporting

• Usability and performance improvements

• Additional features for version 16 parity

• NPrinting v16 migration tool

• Integrated reporting in Qlik Sense

− Report authoring

− Single user management

• FIPS compliance

• Multi-cloud integration – elastic

architecture for scalability

• Integrated reporting in Qlik Sense

− Scheduling and distribution

6 months 12 months 24 months

Value Added Products – Data

Qlik

Connectors®

• Enhanced single-sign-on support including

Kerberos

• Further integration of Qlik Web

Connectors

• Additional support for new data sources

• Additional support for S/4 & BW/4HANA

• Increased visibility for Microsoft Azure

platform, including ADL & Azure DW & DB

• Oracle ADWC native support

• Native support for additional data sources

natively

• Support for single-sign-on for scheduled

reloads

• Connectivity as-a-service for multi-cloud

reloads

• Independent update of connectors for

connectivity service

• Smart UI design for SAP connectivity

• Smart connectivity to common business

sources utilizing meta-data

• New ODBC sources such as HAWQ,

DynamoDB, HBase, Google Spanner and

others

• Single-sign-on support for additional

sources

Qlik

DataMarket®

• Healthcare Industry Packages – US • Maintenance and updates to existing

packages

• Maintenance and updates to existing

packages

Qlik

Associative Big

Data Index™

• GA release of Big Data Index

− Indexing support for Parquet files

stored in HDFS/S3/EFS buckets in

AWS

− ODAG support for generating detail

apps

− List box and KPI object in live mode

− Scripting with selection GUI

• Support for basic chart types and more

functionality in live mode

• Support for additional data sources such

as ORCFile

• Support for automated deployment in

cloud environments such as Azure and

Google

• Support for automated deployment on-

premise

• On-premise and multi-cloud integration

• Support for more chart types and

functionality

• Support for additional data sources and

cloud environments such as ODBC and

GCP

6 months 12 months 24 months

Accessibility Compliance Roadmap

Qlik Sense®

• User selectable application themes

− Custom colors

− Font control

• JAWS support for Chrome

• Self service areas

− Private sheets

− Stories

• Native JAWS support for Visualizations

• Continued investment in meeting WCAG

AA compliance for consumer & self-

service areas of Qlik Sense

6 months 12 months 24 months

Qlik is committed to support of accessibility and will be making investments in accessibility

compliance for Qlik Sense over the course of the next 6 – 12 months.

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Appendix:Innovation Showcase

Current InnovationInsight Advisor

Auto-generates and suggests the best insights for users to explore further, based on the data set and users unique intuition

• Performs advanced analysis to generate and recommend insights

• Based on the overall data set

• Based on dimensions

• Based on search criteria

• Auto-generates visualizations and analytics

• Allows users to add auto-generated insights directly to sheets

• Driven by the Qlik Cognitive engine

Current InnovationAccelerated Self-Service

Speeds the creation of visualizations, reducing time to value from data to insight

and driving data literacy

• New set of capabilities to speed users from data to insight

• Smart data preparation with improved association recommendations

• Automated chart generation based on the data

• Alternative chart suggestions for users to consider

• Improvements to workflows and properties panels

• Driven by the Qlik Cognitive engine

Current InnovationAdvanced Analytics (R & Python) Integration

Delivers the power of advanced analytics directly within Qlik Sense, for users to

explore and generate insight

• Direct integration with 3rd party advanced analytics engines through server-side extension APIs

• Allows data to be directly exchanged at the engine-level during analysis

• Leverages the Qlik Associative Engine to pass relevant data based on user context

• Full integration with Qlik Sense expressions and libraries

• Connectors can be built for any external engines

• Open source connectors to be made available by Qlik for R and Python

Etc..

Current InnovationSmart, self-service data preparation

Allows everyone to visually combine and prepare data for analysis, without the need

for scripting

• Drag-and-drop to link tables and data sets, with smart profiling to auto-suggest the best associations

• Intelligent profiling and handling of dates, geographic information, and other data types

• Visual data transformation capabilities, including data binning, table concatenation, derived fields, and pivot table handling

• A graphical interface for easily selecting different data sources

• Histograms and other auto-generated insights about the data

• Data lineage and tracking

Current InnovationOn-demand App Generation

Provides a real-world solution for segmenting and exploring big data, designed by Qlik and our customers

• Analyze big data by generating new Qlik Sense apps on the fly, based on selections

• A template app summarizes the entire big data environment

• Users can select subsets of data and dynamically generate new analysis apps

• Analysis apps offer fully unrestricted search and exploration

Current InnovationQlik Sense Mobile

Offers fully interactive mobile analysis, both online and offline, for insight directly

at the point of decision

• A Qlik Sense native app for iOS that allows both online and offline use

• Features the Qlik Associative Engine running locally on the device, allowing for unrestricted associative exploration and search when offline

• Supports deployment and configuration through popular EMM/MDM platforms such as Airwatch and MobileIron, for device-level security and governance

• Delivers native Qlik Sense features for mobility, including responsive design and gesture-based touch interaction

Platform InnovationNatural Language Generation

Allows ordinary users to read and understand relevant insights, instead of having to interpret

charts manually, driving data literacy

• Real time insights that enhance Qlik Sense visualizations

• Explains the most relevant insights contained within visualizations in a natural language story

• Advanced natural Language Generation (NLG)

• Integration with the Qlik Associative Engine

• Partner solutions include Narratives for Qlik (by Narrative Science)

Planned InnovationGlobal Library

Offers governed data sets for self-service analysis, improving consistency, accuracy,

and reuse

• A central, secure library of data models for analysis

• Publishing of curated data sets for self-service users

• Search for available data sets based on keywords and tags

• Auto-suggestions of new relevant data sets to augment analyses

• Management, organization, security, and multi-cloud support

R&D Preview

Planned InnovationQlik Associative Big Data Index

Drives insight across huge data sets, allowing unrestricted exploration leveraging

the Qlik Associative Engine

• The full associative experience on top of big data sources, while leaving data where it resides

• A proper incremental index optimized for associative exploration and speed

• Indexing of data in in data lakes and big data sources such as Hadoop

• Leaves the data in place

• Can be deployed across a cluster for speed and scale

R&D Preview

Planned InnovationConversational Analytics and Search

Enables non-technical users to explore and analyze information using natural

language, driving data literacy

• Search

• Use of natural language for search and analysis

• Auto-generation of insights based on natural language

• Extended search in the hub, including search across apps

• Conversational Analytics

• Interactive, conversational and visual discovery experience, beyond a simple chat bot

• Qlik Sense offers new questions and makes suggestions that focus users on relevant areas to investigate further

R&D Preview

Planned InnovationInsight Management

Allows users to easily capture and organize trusted insights, take action, and share them

across the organization and beyond

• A new user experience for capturing, organizing and sharing insights

• Includes snapshots, bookmarks, digests, alerts, etc.

• Drive action by setting goals, tasks, approvals, and deadlines

• Facilitate collaboration through sharing, presentation, annotation, and discussion

• Create alerts for important system, social, and data activity

• Track and monitor with self-service digests

R&D Preview

Planned InnovationAssociative Insights

Enables “peripheral vision” for users by exposing hidden insights in the data,

based on associations

• Surface hidden insights to users based on their selections and associated / unrelated data

• Leverage current context to identify and better understand the most important insights “in the gray”

• Provide information and suggestions around associative insights for further exploration

• Combines the power of Qlik’s associative and cognitive engines for context-aware AI

R&D Preview

Planned InnovationMulti-Attribute Analysis

Allows users to easily identify data subsets “cohorts” as starting points for analysis,

assisted by machine intelligence

• A free form exploration canvas for identifying cohorts of data

• Test hypotheses and define sets for further analysis

• Data ‘swarms’ together and shapes itself based on similarity

• Pattern recognition and outlier identification

• Leverages cognitive engine to offer suggestions and hypotheses (starting points)

• Integration with insight advisor for auto-generation of visualizations from data sets

R&D Preview