We see a growing interest for Qlik Sense SaaS within our Qlik Customer base. Especially Customers who would rather outsource their servers and the need for regular updates and upgrades. As we see Qlik Sense SaaS as an important platform we have now completed Phase 2 for apps in our approach to fully support Qlik Sense SaaS tenants. We understand that Customer have the need to manage both the on-premise servers from a single solution and that is exactly what PlatformManager offers. (click picture to enlarge) We support different types of configurations. The only requirement now is that the Development environment runs on-premise; all other environments can either exist on-premise or in the cloud. This gives our customers the flexibility they need, for now and for the future. So, all publications are executed by PlatformManager providing Customer a complete overview of Development and Promotion, whether it’s on-premise or in the Qlik Sense SaaS cloud. Private clouds are already fully supported by PlatformManager for several years now. The final stage we are entering now is to enable customers to Develop in Qlik Sense SaaS. When this has been delivered Customers can have a complete DTAP setup in Qlik Sense SaaS. If
Read moreWe have completed Phase 2 of our Qlik Sense SaaS support roadmap! Phase 1 was tested and released in 2021 and enables customers who work with Qlik Sense SaaS Hybrid to use PlatformManager. Synchronizing Qlik Sense SaaS tenants is fully executed by the Qlik Sense synchronization process. The downsize was that Customers did not have a single overview of all their Qlik servers. Phase 2 Has now been completed! PlatformManager can be used to manage an on-premise Development and Test environment combined with one or more Qlik Sense SaaS production tenants. The biggest advantage of this approach is that Customers have all Qlik Sense servers visible in the same PlatformManager implementation. They can version control all assets in Development and publish to test, acceptance and production in Qlik Sense SaaS or on-premise. (click picture to enlarge) So almost all configurations are now supported in PlatformManager. The Benefit for you is that your QS SaaS tenants are also controlled by and visible in PlatformManager. Features that we will provide are: Automated deployment to QS SaaS tenant of apps and Extensions with the option to change the owner of the app. Automatically changing the Data connections used in the Qlik Sense app
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Read morePM 4.5.3 Possibility to run more than one job at the same time Until version 4.5.3 PlatformManager executed all jobs (i.e., import, check-in, extraction, checkout, promote) sequentially. So, each job had to wait for another job to finish. While most jobs are processed swiftly, the job queue can grow when many jobs are requested in a short amount of time or when large time-consuming jobs like import, check-in and data extraction are added. The Job Queue mechanism is now optimized to run in parallel (whenever possible). This means that at the same time an extract job is running a check-in, import, checkout or promote can be done. Also import, check-in and extraction of items that use another BI Service can run at the same time. The maximum amount of parallel job can be configured to get the most out of your PlatformManager installation. This feature is most powerful for customers with multiple BI solutions (i.e., QlikView & Qlik Sense) managed by PlatformManager. For example: extraction of a QlikView application does not hinder any Qlik Sense jobs in the queue. It can almost double the job load capacity of PlatformManager, depending on the mix of job types in the queue. But
Read morePM 4.5.5 A filter for a specific period is added to the JobView The JobView monitor shows all (re)scheduled, running, passed, cancelled and failed jobs. For instance, failed imports, successful promote, etc. Now it is possible to not only filter jobs based on status, but also on time period (i.e., last week). Monitoring your jobs becomes so much easier. You select the status and time period of the jobs to get an overview. This overview helps you to manage your job queue. When a job failed it is possible to rerun the job immediate or schedule it to be executed at a specific date and time. Already scheduled jobs can be canceled or rescheduled if so needed. This is great, for instance, if an import failed because of a missing extension. After importing the extension the import job can be re-run instead of going through the import wizard again.
Read moreWe are now working on Phase 2 of our Qlik Sense SaaS support roadmap! Phase 1 was tested and released in 2021 and enables customers who work with Qlik Sense SaaS Hybrid to use PlatformManager. Synchronizing Qlik Sense SaaS tenants is fully executed by the Qlik Sense synchronization process. Phase 2means that PlatformManager will also synchronize your apps to the QS SaaS tenants. We believe this is a more integrated approach, offering you additional features and more control while promoting apps. The Benefit for you is that your QS SaaS tenants are also controlled by and visible in PlatformManager. Features that we will provide are: Automated deployment to QS SaaS tenant of apps and Extensions with the option to change the owner of the app. Automatically changing the Data connections used in the Qlik Sense app during the promotion to the QS SaaS tenant. Move the app to the required destination space. A reload can be fired after or during promotion. Phase 3will support a fully operational DTAP implementation running in QS SaaS. This works with a single tenant and with multiple tenants. Once our Phase 2 has been delivered Phase 3 will follow within 2-3 months. If you wish to
Read moreWe noticed that many customers are reloading their Qlik Sense apps in Development and moving them to production with data. The single purpose for most customers is that they want to prevent Business Users from seeing an empty app while the reload is running and taking more than 30 minutes or so. The disadvantages of this approach is that your production data needs to be available in Development and will stay in PlatformManager until the item is removed. That takes up a lot of disk space but is also inefficient since after some time the data is no longer relevant. This is why PlatformManager offers a reload during promotion. While we promote your app you can check the option to reload the app with the latest data using the data connections from the destination Qlik Sense server, mostly your production environment. We will only replace the current version after the reload has finished. So, your Business users will always have an app with data while you can still store the app without data or with a minimal test dataset.
Read moreWhen you are onboarding with PlatformManager we provide the option to import your entire folder structure. From Customer feedback we learned that they often would like to include the files as well. So, we have changed this feature to include files as well. This feature can also be used when onboarding a new team, project or department. Simply select the Import folders and files, show the preview and if you like what you see, start the import.
Read morePlatformManager now officially supports Customers who have a Qlik Sense SaaS hybrid implementation. In our 3 stage support process, we have tested and completed phase 1. So if you have an on-premise Qlik Sense implementation with one or more Qlik Sense SaaS tenants, PlatformManager covers your Version Control and Deployment challenges. If you want to learn more, please contact our Sales team at sales@PlatformManager.com
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