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“What’s New”

Qlik Product Update Click to add text

February 2021
• 2021 Product Vision and Strategy
• Release Highlights & Release Detail
• Customer Success and Services
• Demo
• What Next?

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Our Product Vision
Enable Active Intelligence

INFORMED ACTION

Find it. Action it.

ACTIVE
INTELLIGENCE
RAW DATA

Free it. Understand it.

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Our Strategy
3 Guiding Principles To Deliver Our Vision

The Data Principle: Qlik respects


the customers’ data location
• Customers will have data that they either
cannot or are not willing to move to Qlik’s
cloud, and we will support those use cases
• Embrace modern data-ops approach
The SaaS Principle: Qlik delivered as-a-service to build the analytics
data pipeline
is a SaaS company
• Market move to the cloud as
customers seek to reduce TCO and The Customer Principle: Qlik
increase scale
• Maximise customer value through a
takes care of its customers
cloud-first approach that enables • Combine the value of software and
rapid innovation, adoption and services, always on, as customers
supports our data strategy modernize and move to cloud
• Protect customers investments and
provide freedom of choice

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Updates to Product Release Cadence
Deliver capabilities to the cloud in a fast and agile way
• Pre-announce some capabilities quarterly
= increased near term roadmap visibility
• Fully continuous release to SaaS for all
capabilities
= faster time to market and value to our customers
• Capabilities highlighted in-product and via
running release updates on help.qlik.com
= maximize awareness and enhanced experience
• Quarterly Client-Managed releases on a
schedule (middle month of quarter)
= predictability and continuity

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Product Innovation and Direction
Qlik.com/roadmap

• Statement of Direction
• Strategic Priorities
• “Coming Soon” capabilities
• updated quarterly
• What’s New Content
• Innovation Blog
• What’s New App
• What’s New Video

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Qlik Data Analytics
What we are excited about for the February Release

Master measures in expressions and New


Visualizations – grid chart & video player

Insight Advisor add narrations using NLG


and follow-up suggestions, plus more

The hub gets more personal with


customizable layout and preferences

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Data Analytics
Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS

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Catalog capabilities added to SaaS
Find the right data and get insights in a click

• Assign tags and properties against each data


file uploaded into the hub
• Profile each dataset at table and field level
• Explore and search for datasets
• View sample data within each dataset
• 1-click add to collection or app

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Consolidated SAP Connectivity
Continuing to expand our wide range of SAP-related Solutions

• Broadening our partnerships with Microsoft, Google,


and other key technology providers
- Qlik Data Integration solutions
automatically replicate, integrate and model live
SAP data
• SAP Solutions, including pre-built accelerators, for
Order-to-Cash, Finance, Inventory, and Procure-to-
Pay
- From raw SAP data to AI-enabled
active intelligence faster
- SAP BW Connector now available
in Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS capabilities
against their BW data
- Provides access to
both InfoProvider objects and BEx queries

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User Experience and Admin Improvements
Driving a personalized and streamlined user experience

• Customizable Hub Landing Page


- Organize and personalize collections
- New default learning collection for training
• Standardized Toolbar for consistent navigation,
interactions and structure
- Global Navigation
- Notifications
- Standardized naming and logo placement
• App diagnostics: allowing users to run an
application performance eval on APIs

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Augmented Analytics
Insights just got faster and smarter

• Insight Advisor Search based analysis


Improvements
- Analysis of change over time data generating
multiple charts or through a combination of charts
- Natural language generation to view narrative
insights and interpretations of the data
• Insight Advisor Chat Improvements
- With follow up suggestions to prompt further
analysis and insight
- Improved context awareness for more intelligent
suggestions
• Additional Improvements to K-means clustering
and Insight Advisor performance

Insight Advisor = your intelligent AI assistant


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Visual Analytics
More world-class visualizations

• New Grid Chart: A new type of visualization that


provides a highly effective means
of visualizing measures across two dimensions.
- Part of the visualization Bundle
- Measures for bubble size and colors
- Ability to show / hide grid lines
- Includes scroll bar and visual axis values
• New Video player: A new capability to embed and
play videos directly in Qlik Sense apps.
- Part of the Dashboard Bundle, and providing ability to
include YouTube links or MP4 files
- Ideal for use cases such as embedding training material
or tutorials into an app for greater user engagement
within an app

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Advanced Authoring
Innovations in authoring

• Master measures in expressions


- Reference master measures within expressions,
improving productivity and governance.
- Ability to refer to a master measure within a
measure
- e.g master measures:
SumOfSales =sum(Sales)
CostOfSales =sum(COS)

Profit =SumOfSale – CostOfSales

- Reusable code = streamline dev process


• Hidden sheets
- A new way to control and manage app content
- Show or hide sheets based on conditions to
target different user groups with the same
app by tailoring the experience.
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Other Notable Enhancements
Qlik Data Analytics

• Connectivity:
- SSO Support to enforce user specific
credentials
• Alerting:
- Section access behavior
- Recipient limits removed to expand access
• Qlik Engine:
- Merge command in Script to allow changed
data to be loaded into a Qlik app without
having to reload entire data model
• Enhancements to user interaction on mobile
devices

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Data Integration

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Qlik Data Integration
What we are excited about for the February Release

Qlik Compose multi-modal offering for


both warehouses and lakes

Improved Qlik Compose for Data Lakes


-- Live Views!

New cloud certifications for Qlik


Replicate support of Postgres in Azure

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Qlik Data Integration
Other Release Highlights
Qlik Replicate Qlik Compose
Qlik Replicate February 2021 release is a minor release The February 2021 release introduces the next generation
bringing more improvements rather than new capabilities. of Qlik Compose - a solution with combined functionality of
Most noteworthy are iimprovements to enable our Qlik Compose for Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
customers in their cloud (and multi-cloud) journeys and a unified UI for multi-modal projects.
Qlik Compose for Data Warehouses
• Certification of Azure database for PostgreSQL • Enhanced UX for improved customer experience
- Single Server as a source Qlik Compose for Data Lakes
• Certification of Kafka target with Confluent Platform 6.x • Enhanced UX for improved customer experience
• Version certifications for Teradata Database 17 • Live views
- as a source and target
• Support for file targets as Parquet & Avro
• Version certifications for IBM sources including DB2
LUW 11.5, DB2i 7.4 and Informix 14.10 • Support for Qlik Replicate table reloads
Pricing & Packaging
• No changes

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Data Literacy as a
Service
Customer Success Services &
Resources

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Applied Data Analytics using Qlik Sense
New Blended Learning Course

• Intensive 15-week program offered virtually

• Learn data analytics and Qlik Sense together

• Combines instructor-led and self-paced


learning

• Fosters collaboration with instructors and


students

More information contact education@qlik.com • Allows use of your own data and business
problems
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Talk to Experts Tuesday
Live Webinar Series

• Live chat with Qlik experts

• Each session covers a specific topic

• Ask your questions

More information visit Qlik Community

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“What’s New”
Demo
Mike Tarallo

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What next?

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Invite your customers to become an Insider!
The next session will be held on February 24th

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Do More with Qlik!
Join the live bi-weekly sessions with Mike Tarallo
Take a deeper look at recent Qlik Innovations
including product and feature demonstrations.
Mike includes best practices and product tips and
tricks in these sessions, all in a live and dynamic
experience.
• Previous Session - now on demand
- Qlik Replicate 101
• Up next:
- Fun with Variables
- ODAG and Dynamic Views
• Register here!

Visit the on-demand “Do More with Qlik” library for all preview sessions
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Check out our Refreshed Community!
New Navigation, unified search, additional resources and more!

• Unified Search & Brand Refresh


• Top Level Navigation
• Streamlined Product forums
- New Blendr.io Product Forum
• Expanded Support Knowledge
Base – with thousands of help
articles!

All to support our active community of users!

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