Qlik previews enterprise version of visual analytics platform, Qlik Sense

BANGALORE, INDIA: Qlik has previewed Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0, the newest release of its modern, platform-based approach to business intelligence (BI) and analytics available in June 2016.

Built on a fully integrated, simple, and intuitive visual analytics platform and powered by the patented QIX Associative Indexing Engine, Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 combines enterprise readiness and governance with best-in-class visualization and data preparation capabilities. This breadth and depth allows organizations to meet the broadest range of BI use cases from a single platform.

With this latest release, Qlik has improved its management and administration capabilities to support IT with more effective auditing, configuration, and governance for broad multi-geography deployments.

Developers are empowered with a new development hub to more easily take full advantage of the Qlik Analytics Platform for web mashups, custom apps, extensions, and widgets, which provide new ways of designing objects to include in data-driven apps. This includes powerful new developer APIs and capabilities, including a new app integration API, a visualization API for programmatic creation of analytics, and a new integrated developer environment (IDE) plugin for Visual Studio.

“With Qlik Sense, we continue to expand the market by creating a scalable, secure, and extensible platform that organizations can consider the centerpiece of their enterprise-wide BI deployment,” said Anthony Deighton, Qlik CTO and SVP of Products.

Users will benefit from new visual search capabilities that allow them to search across charts and data. In addition, visual exploration capabilities now allow users to explore and discover insights in analyses using governed metrics and dimensions – without having to rely on analysts to edit and modify visualizations.

Additional functionality improves business user app creation, including time aware charts, automatic detection of geographic data, and improved application of data-driven color palettes.

Several new features facilitate sharing and collaboration, including storytelling that allows data stories to be directly published to Microsoft Office and PDF.

Qlik Sense offers improved capabilities for business users to load, transform, and enrich their data without the need for complex scripting. Qlik has a new innovative, patented, user experience which makes finding and taking advantage of associations in multiple data sources a fun and engaging experience.

In addition, Qlik now directly offers broader connectivity options to more web-based data sources, including Twitter, Facebook, and Google, as well as cloud-based applications including Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SugarCRM.

With Qlik DataMarket users can access a comprehensive library of free and subscription-based external data directly within Qlik Sense and QlikView to allow users to augment and cross reference their internal data to gain context and drive deeper insights.

Qlik Sense Cloud Plus enables users to share fully interactive Qlik Sense apps with an unlimited number of other users for a monthly fee of $20(US) per month. The Qlik DataMarket Essentials package, which includes third-party currency, weather, social, and economic data, is also included to further enhance analysis.