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.

Join Jnr Developer Advocate Gertrude as she introduces the newly released Qlik Application Automation API.

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.

You can now save your Qlik Application Automation workflows as templates to share with others. Jump to 04:20 to see how it is done.

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.

The Qlik Sense SaaS catalog can now include data that is stored in relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and Snowflake increasing data reuse, visibility and governance while expanding the types of content that data engineers and stewards can manage and distribute. It also simplifies data use as data consumers no longer need to setup data connections as they can simply browse for the data they need within the catalog.

This week we have added a finer level of control when sharing Qlik Cloud SaaS content with users and groups. User adoption requires easy sharing of content from Qlik Sense Shared and Managed spaces as well as a more finer grain access control within spaces to make it easy for users to manage their tenant. Watch this video to learn more!

Learn how Qlik Analytics Data Pipeline enables users to take action in the business moment.

This week we introduce legibility improvements to PDF report output generated by Qlik Sense and the Qlik Reporting Service available working within in Qlik Application Automation.