What’s New in Qlik Cloud
– September 2025 Updates –
Welcome to the next edition of the ‘What’s New in Qlik Cloud’ blog for September 2025!
Authors: Roger Gray, BI Manager & Tom Cotterill, BI Consultant, at Climber.
Data Analytics
Qlik has released a set of updates that make data preparation, governance, and analytics more powerful and easier to use. This month’s highlights include Table Recipe, stronger governance tools, new GenAI connectors, learning resources, and multiple platform enhancements. Here’s what’s fresh this month!
1. Table Recipe: Simple Data Preparation
Qlik introduces Table Recipe, a spreadsheet-like workspace for single-table data preparation. It offers an interactive and repeatable way to apply changes to your data with no coding required.
Highlights
- Spreadsheet-style interface for simple table edits
- 60+ no-code functions to clean, standardise, split, mask, and format data
- Column profiling and filtering to inspect and refine datasets
- Flexible usage options:
- Standalone use: Create recipes as catalog assets and schedule outputs
- Embedded use: Insert recipes into larger data flows for complex pipelines
- Fully integrated with spaces, lineage, and impact analysis
Table Recipe brings self-service data preparation into Qlik Cloud while keeping governance intact.
2. Learn in Qlik Cloud
Qlik introduces a new Learn page, replacing “Getting started”.
- Step-by-step learning paths
- Outcome-based lessons to build skills
- Achievement tracking and updated content
This creates a guided way to learn Qlik, from onboarding through advanced skills.
3. Direct Access Gateway 1.7.6
The new gateway release introduces improvements and fixes.
File connector updates
- Restrict file system access to specific spaces
- Apply changes without restarting the gateway
- Enable process isolation by default on clean installs
Oracle connector
- Adds support for TNS Names connection method
REST connector
- Allow connections to localhost
- Configure local URLs via public API
Other improvements
- Support asynchronous “load data” requests via API
- Stability improvements under heavy load
4. Governed Data Connection Management
Administrators can now control who creates, manages, or reads data connections. This new security scope gives stronger tenant-wide governance.
Highlights
- Define who can create or read connections globally
- Enforce rules beyond space-level permissions
- Apply stronger restrictions, even for space editors and private analytics content creator users
- This update strengthens security, privacy, and compliance for enterprise environments
5. Window Script Function Enhancements
Window functions now have improved syntax, usability, and documentation.
Enhancements
- Aggregations can now use ordered sliding windows
- Clearer documentation for optional parameters
- Fix for incorrect WRank values in nested expressions
These changes support advanced analytics and ML data preparation.
6. SAML Identity Provider Enhancements
Qlik Cloud now supports assertion signature verification and decryption for all SAML identity providers.
Data Integration
It’s a quieter month for Qlik Data Integration, but that doesn’t mean Qlik are standing still. From smarter CDC monitoring to an excellent update which improves JSON handling, this month’s updates continue to chip away at friction points and give you more control where it counts. Let’s take a look.
1. Extended Monitoring for Scheduled CDC Tasks
Qlik now gives clearer visibility into missed schedules for CDC tasks, helping teams spot and respond to potential issues faster. If a scheduled task doesn’t run as expected, whether due to long-running processing, network issues, or a Data Movement Gateway being unavailable, the data task monitor will now surface additional details.
New monitoring fields include:
- Scheduling interval: So you can quickly confirm the expected cadence
- Time since missed schedule: Displays how long it’s been since the last scheduled run, and how many schedules were missed
- Warnings: Appear when a scheduled run fails to start
This makes it easier to troubleshoot why tasks are falling behind, especially in environments where latency and timing matter.
More information: Change data capture (CDC) monitoring details
2. New Semantic Type Operator for Validation Rules
Validation rules in Qlik Talend Cloud now support the “is of type” operator, allowing you to check whether a field’s content matches a specific semantic type.
You can use both built-in and user-defined semantic types, managed via the Semantic Types tab under Data Quality in the Data Integration activity centre. It’s a handy addition for enforcing stronger, type-aware validation across your pipelines.
More information: Working with validation rules
3. Column Data Types Now Visible in Preview
When previewing the results of an SQL transformation, you’ll now see the data types for each column, alongside the data itself. It’s a simple addition that makes it easier to validate your logic and catch type mismatches early.
Note: This feature requires Data Movement Gateway version 2024.11.70 or later if you’re accessing your source through the date movement gateway.
More information: Previewing data
4. Support for JSON-to-JSON Column Mapping
Finally, JSON stays JSON! Qlik Talend Cloud now includes a new option to map JSON columns directly from source to target, instead of flattening them into STRING. You’ll find it in the Metadata tab of task settings:
“Map compatible source JSON columns to JSON columns on the target.”
For new tasks, the option is enabled by default if both source and target support native JSON. For existing tasks, it’s off to avoid breaking downstream logic that expects strings. It can be switched on after updating any impacted processes.
Note
- Requires a Preview SaaS application connector
- For gateway-based sources, you’ll need Data Movement Gateway version 2024.11.70 or later
This is a long-awaited update for teams working with semi-structured data, and a welcome step toward better schema fidelity in your pipelines.
5. Controlling When the Table Error Handling Policy is Triggered
Not every error should bring your pipeline to its knees, especially when it’s just your SaaS source closing shop for routine maintenance. With this update, you now have control over when the table error handling policy kicks in.
This new setting lets you specify the number of retries before a table is marked as failed and error handling actions (like suspending the table or stopping the task) are triggered. The default was always three retries, but that doesn’t account for scheduled maintenance windows or brief connectivity drops.
Now, you can increase the retry count to give your pipeline a bit more resilience before throwing in the towel. This is especially useful when working with SaaS connectors that are known to have short, sporadic downtime.
Note
- This option is only available for Lite or Standard SaaS connectors
- If you’re using Data Movement Gateway, make sure you’re on version 2024.11.70 or later
A small change, but one that might just keep your Monday morning from turning into a fire drill.
More information: Table error handling
Summary
Qlik Cloud Analytics continues to grow as a complete analytics and AI platform. September’s updates make Qlik Cloud Analytics simpler, safer, and smarter. Table Recipe makes data preparation fast. Governance tools tighten control. New GenAI connectors expand options. Learning paths guide users step by step. Technical enhancements strengthen analytics and gateway performance.
It’s also a solid month for Data Integration improvements. This release brings incremental but meaningful improvements across pipelines and task monitoring. Developers gain visibility into column data types during SQL previews and finally get native JSON-to-JSON mapping support. No more unexpected string conversions. Scheduled CDC tasks now report missed runs, and new validation and retry options bring welcome flexibility for error handling and data quality rules.
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Roger Gray
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