New connectors and templates in Application Automation

This Application Automation release added two new connectors and three new templates.

New Connectors

• Microsoft Outlook: Microsoft Outlook is an email client which includes features such as calendaring, task managing, contact managing, and note taking. The new Microsoft Outlook 365 connector allows users to link their email accounts and send emails. Emails can have attachments and be formatted using HTML.

  Getting started with Microsoft Outlook

• Apache Kafka: Apache Kafka is an open-source event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Apache Kafka provides message broker functionality similar to a message queue, where you can publish and subscribe to named data streams. The new Apache Kafka connector allows users to publish data sourced from any of the supported Application Automation connectors into Kafka topics and streams via a Confluent Rest Proxy.​

  Getting started with Apache Kafka

New templates

• Export audit trail logs from QEM to Splunk: This template enables you to incrementally export audit trail logs from Qlik Enterprise Manager to Splunk. The template integrates QlikData Integration with the market-leading enterprise application monitoring solution to improve production monitoring and root cause analysis. Additionally, users can change the template and export the audit trail data to other logging platforms.

  Qlik Application Automation: Incrementally export audit trail logs from Qlik Enterprise Manager to Splunk

• Create a Slack channel when JIRA tickets update: This template automatically creates a channel in Slack every time there is a status change to a Jira ticket. The template creates a new Slack channel, invites the members, and sends a message to the channel along with the Jira ticket information. Channels are only created for tickets with status changes from New to Committed, New to In Progress, or New to Designing.

  Create a channel in Slack for new Jira ticket with a status change

• Split QVDs using an automation to improve reloads: This template improves the loading times of application reloads by splitting a large QVD file into several smaller ones.

  How to split QVDs using an automation to improve reloads