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While Business Discovery platforms must deliver business user benefits such as insight everywhere, mobility, and a social and collaborative experience, they can’t stop there. Business Discovery platforms must also meet IT requirements for: security mechanisms to protect sensitive data, the ability to crunch massive volumes of data quickly, and advanced yet easy-to-use administration tools. QlikView 11 is packed with new and improved capabilities designed to improve performance of large deployments and make them easier for IT pros to secure and administer.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

QlikView 11 provides several new and improved capabilities to improve system performance.

Publisher Performance Improvements Mean Fresher Data

QlikView 11 introduces important improvements to the QlikView Publisher component, which is used for reloading QlikView documents and distributing derivative QlikView applications. We’ve significantly improved the performance of QlikView Publisher reload and loop and reduce tasks. QlikView 11 introduces roughly 40% improvement in QlikView Publisher performance, compared to QlikView 10.

Load Balancing Improvements Reduce Complexity and Cost

A new, additional algorithm for load balancing in deployments that utilize QlikView Web Server helps QlikView administrators better manage a cluster of QlikView Servers. QlikView Web Server can now route traffic in several ways: randomly, or by RAM (random access memory) and/or CPU (central processing unit) utilization. These factors work hand in hand. Administrators can configure the environment so that a large QlikView application isn’t moved to a server that may have plenty of disk space but is overloaded with processing, for example.

More Granular Clustering Optimizes Available Computing Resources

With more granular clustering, QlikView administrators managing deployments that have large data volumes can reduce the complexity and cost by optimizing resources. Administrators now have control over which nodes in a cluster execute which documents. For example, they can choose to assign larger QlikView documents to larger servers, and can achieve better utilization of commodity hardware for smaller loads.

EASE OF ADMINISTRATION

QlikView 11 delivers a number of improvements to make it easier for administrators to manage the system.

QlikView Management Console Saves Administrators Time

The unified QlikView 11 management console interface has been usability tested for significant improvements in speed and ease of use. We’ve made changes in areas like task searching and filtering, task execution history within the status task page, task templates and creation wizards, and event notifications (such as when a service is down).

AccessPoint Redesign Helps IT Better Support Business Users

AccessPoint is the QlikView portal where users can find and access QlikView apps to which they have security rights. With QlikView 11, AccessPoint provides a more visually appealing and user-friendly experience for people accessing QlikView apps on QlikView Server (see Figure 5). New and improved capabilities include a faster and more modern design, as well as the ability to assign characteristics/attributes to documents to make them easier to find and organize, search for and “favorite” apps, more easily sort apps in detail view, and add a searchable description to a document.

 

Figure 5: AccessPoint has a sleek, clean look and feel

 

 

QlikView Management Services API Enhancements Enable Additional Automation

With QlikView management services API enhancements, administrators can improve automation of their QlikView environment. This API enables developers and administrators to programmatically interact with the QlikView management service to customize or automate various aspects of QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher administration.

QlikView 11 includes more than 50 new QlikView management services API calls that support automation in areas like collaboration object management, directory service connector lookup and validation, and importing of tasks. It also supports remote administration, log file access, QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher license configuration, and section access management.

SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

QlikView 11 provides a number of new and improved capabilities to make it easier for administrators to secure their QlikView environment.

Document-Level Auditing Improves Audit Accuracy and Lowers Risk

Risk management and compliance are top of mind wherever sensitive business data is concerned. New optional settings within QlikView Management Console enable administrators to more effectively audit user interactions. Administrators can improve the accuracy of audit results when conducting a usage audit by tracking which users access what documents, and performing this analysis retroactively. Administrators can audit QlikView usage not only at the system level but down to the document level.

Granular Download and Export Control Improves Manageability

QlikView administrators can improve control and manageability when applying privileges for document download and/or data export. They can now assign privileges at both the document and user level.

PUBLISHER QVD GENERATION MAKES IT EASIER TO MANAGE AND SECURE DATA CENTRALLY

 

Central data management is easier than ever before for QlikView developers and architects. They can now manage data by creating QVD (QlikView data file) layers from a centralized, server-side, QlikView Publisher location. Developers and architects can now create QVDs without the additional overhead of managing a QVW (QlikView file) solely for the purpose of creating a QVD; they can now create QVDs via a script. Optionally, QlikView administrators can also assign NTFS (New Technology File System) security to QVDs using this mechanism.

 

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