Qlik Sense June 2018 release has arrived......

As the summer months begin to heat up so too are things at Qlik with the much-anticipated Qlik Sense June 2018 Release. Packed with so many great new features, it's hard to know where to start........

The Qlik Sense June 2018 Release includes new features like:

• Insight advisor automatically generating insights into your data
• Publishing apps from the hub
• The ability to filter data from files
• An updated Expression Editor
• Vertical resizing of sheets
• Workflow improvements for editing visualizations
• Line layers in multi-layer map charts
• Accessibility improvements
• 5 new Qlik Connectors

Let's start with Insight Advisor Qlik's newest and very exciting advancement in Augmented Intelligence (AI). The Insight Advisor suggests the best analytics and insights for users to consider and explore. This capability, powered by Qlik's cognitive engine and works with their Qlik Associative Engine to provide insight suggestions and automation that are in context with user’s intuition and behavior to support Qlik's vision around pervasive data literacy within the organization. In short, this very cool feature is only the beginning of how Qlik's cognitive engine will continue to reshape the analytics community.

There are many new features around accelerated self-service, which help users get to insights much faster. Qlik’s cognitive engine also powers alternative chart suggestions, which allows users to explore different chart options easily. Simple drag-and-drop functionality enables users to easily switch dimensions and measures to drive a quicker and more intuitive way to visualize their data. Qlik have also made advancements around data loading capabilities providing a user-friendly and integrated way to control the loading of your data, with easily applied filters and aggregations.

As always, they are continually developing new visualizations and enhanced mapping capabilities. This June release boasts a new line layer map chart, which allows users to visualize relationships such as areas or flows of goods, or money between geographic locations. A scrollbar chart toggle feature allows users to toggle off a visualization’s scrollbar on charts when using the continuous axis to control the appearance and make better use of the sheet’s space to highlight other chart aspects. Lastly, Qlik are giving users more control over the straight table with the ability to show or hide columns conditionally based on expressions.

Qlik are also introducing Accessibility capabilities within this release. Chart to table flipping allows a user to switch visualizations to a table presentation, inspect values and make selections. Keyboard table selections enable value selection in charts that have been flipped to a table. In addition, they have added screen reader tags that can be read out properly to the user when using a screen reader program. Lastly, users can navigate and interact with the Qlik help site using keyboard keys and shortcuts, resize/zoom text and images and get a good contrast for text, icons, and images.

Qlik is committed to enhancing ways to collaborate across the organization using the QSE platform, and the June 2018 Release supports this with a new “My Work” section within the hub. Now users can easily identify apps in this section that are published and those that are not, conseqeuntly giving users more control around publishing apps. Owners of apps can also promote and un-promote community sheets, which provides great value when promoting a compelling insight that might add value for other users in the system as authorized content to the “base sheets”.

Improved management and governance capabilities for app republishing from the hub eliminate the need to browse the QMC and simplifies the app lifecycle workflow. This release also provides improvements to the API to export / import an app with or without data, and the ability to import & replace an app UI while keeping the data.

Last and quite possibly the biggest part of the June 2018 Release, is the launch of Qlik's Multi-Cloud offering, which will give customers a way to successfully transition to cloud analytics! Qlik’s multi-cloud analytics solution supports any analytics use case regardless of where data is stored or how the platform is deployed. This will allow Qlik customers to keep their data where they want it – across on-premise and single- or multi-cloud deployments using clouds of their choice. Customers can define their own rules and policies around where data is stored and how it is distributed to optimize computing across different environments and provide a seamless experience across their infrastructure.

With the release of Multi-Cloud Qlik also offer a new cloud hub, which delivers a flexible, modern and personalised view of analytics to all consumers of cloud content in multi-cloud deployments of Qlik Sense. The new cloud hub allows users to organise content in collections and easily get to commonly used apps by favoriting them. This works on any device, as it is built using responsive design. Over the next few releases, the cloud hub will add more features to accelerate time to insight for all users.

Qlik is also introducing updates that streamline the Qlik Sense client packaging with the introduction of Webpack, a new technology for module bundling JavaScript^® applications.

All this, and more including Qlik Nprinting enhancements and expanded connectivity!

Keep posted for what's coming next...........