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
10 Week Milestone10 Week Milestone 10 Week Milestone
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
Use of logos for complementary technologies does not represent an endorsement of any kind.
• 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
• 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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