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Direct Query - Part 1 - Overview and Operation

Direct Query is a new capability in Qlik Sense SaaS that enables analytics apps to generate SQL queries directly against cloud databases as the user interacts with data through visualizations and dynamic filtering. This will be a 2 part series – with the first part providing a brief overview, setup and operation of how it all works and the 2nd part showing how this would work along with Qlik’s in memory analytics engine providing more analytics functionality as a hybrid solution.

Direct Query - Part 2 - Building Hybrid Analytics Solutions with On Demand App Generation (ODAG)

This video shows how to build a hybrid data analytics solution using Direct Query and On Demand app Generation when working with real-time data access and big data use cases. You will also see the new auto-template generator for On Demand App Generation - used to generate the detailed / app on demand. For a deep dive on ODAG and Dynamic Views.

The Human Side of the Equation - How Stories Bring Data to Life (Part 2)

As data science has taken center stage in a lot of organizations, many are relearning what they’ve already known – that dry, mathematical calculations don’t inspire and don’t stick. It’s the story that matters. In this second of a two-part blog series, we look at some best practices for data storytelling and how Qlik analytics can help.

The Human Side of the Equation - How Stories Bring Data to Life (Part 1)

As data science has taken center stage in a lot of organizations, many are relearning what they’ve already known – that dry, mathematical calculations don’t inspire and don’t stick. It’s the story that matters. In this first of a two-part blog series, we look at the history and neuroscience of storytelling and how it can help us understand data at a more human level.

SaaS in 60 - Create and Share Qlik Application Automation Templates

This week in Qlik Application Automation you can now save your automation workflows as templates for others in your organization to use and build from. After designing your workflow for a specific task, simply right click on the canvas and choose Save as template – a window will appear prompting you to add a name, description and thumbnail and visibility status – choose Shared to make this automation available to others in your tenant.

Qlik Shines in G2 Summer Reports for Embedded Business Intelligence Software

Qlik has performed extremely well in peer-based reviews over the years, but one peer-based review organization which sometimes flies under the radar is G2. They shouldn’t - G2 has been around for a decade and published over 1.7 million reviews covering thousands of software products.

They may be good with numbers but is your finance team good with data?

If there is a job synonymous with numbers and data, it’s finance and accounting so you’d be forgiven for thinking that those working in these roles are, by extension, data literate – with the ability to read, work with, analyze and communicate with data. In fact, this is the lie. There is a very big difference between reporting on data and taking informed action using the insights data can provide.

Simplified Authoring Walkthrough - Qlik Sense SaaS

The new Simplified Authoring will be available in Qlik Cloud Platform / Qlik Sense SaaS on July 5th. This experience makes quickly creating layouts and visualizations even easier with a new all-in one interface. It will provide the following benefits to new and existing Qlik Sense SaaS users: On July 5th tenant admins will have the option to “turn on” the Simplified Authoring for all their users, after admins have become familiar with the new capability.