Comparing Qlik Sense Client-Managed to Qlik Cloud

Qlik Sense is available as a client-managed or a Qlik Cloud solution. It can be deployed on Microsoft Windows or Qlik Cloud infrastructure. There are slight feature differences between these platforms.

The client-managed version of Qlik Sense is available on Microsoft Windows. Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.

Organizing applications in Qlik Cloud

Applications in Qlik Cloud can be tagged so that related applications can be viewed together. You can tag applications and create collections based on these tags. If another user can view an application, they can view all tags on the application. However, to add tags to an application you must have edit permission on the application.

Developing applications collaboratively in shared spaces

Windows

You develop applications collaboratively in a stream. Users with edit permissions in a stream can add private sheets, stories, and bookmarks to your published application. They can publish these items to make them available to other users in the application. These community items can be approved by the application owners to be included in the base items of the application. Base items are included when the application is copied or downloaded by other users.

Qlik Cloud

You develop applications collaboratively in a space. Users with edit permissions in a shared space can add private sheets, stories, and bookmarks to an application in a space. Users with edit permissions can then make their sheets, stories, and bookmarks public. Rather than being added to a community section for approval, these items are added directly to the public items of the application and are included when the application is copied or exported. Any user with edit permission in a space can take ownership of a public item to work on it further, by making it private.

Reloading applications

Windows

If you want to schedule reloads for your applications, you or your administrator needs to create a reload task in the Qlik Management Console (QMC). You can also reload applications directly in the hub.

Qlik Cloud

Application owners can both reload and schedule reloads for their applications directly from Qlik Cloud activity centers. Task chains are accomplished using Qlik Automate.

Controlling access to applications with spaces

Windows

You control access to published applications by publishing them to streams. Streams are created in QMC and access to streams is set in QMC. Published applications have restrictions with how content can be added to it after publishing. Updates to the application can be made by duplicating the application, making changes, and then republishing the application. Sheets can be added to the base sheets of a published application by approving them.

Unpublished applications in Work are only visible to the application creator, and are published to streams when they are complete.

Qlik Cloud

Users can share their own applications directly with other users using shared spaces. Shared applications can be continuously modified and changed by their owner, and published to a managed space.

Users with the Shared Space Creator role can create shared spaces. Unlike streams, users can create shared spaces directly in the Analytics activity center. Shared spaces provide access control to applications. Users in a shared space are assigned an owner, administrator, editor, or viewer role, which limits the actions they can take both in the space and in applications in the space.

API comparison

In many cases APIs are cross-compatible and can be used in both Qlik Sense Client-Managed and Qlik Cloud, without modifications. But there are some differences and exceptions, see: API comparison between products.