5 Qlik Sense Features That Fix Ownership Chaos Every February

February is when Qlik Sense stops failing technically and starts failing organizationally.

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Glenda Carnate
February 05, 2026

Read time: 2.5 minutes

All applications are reloaded in real time with data. All appears to be correct at first glance.

However, once a reorganization occurs, ambiguity begins to surface around the applications. Which application can be trusted? Who owns the metric? For example, who will be affected if a metric gets changed? The length of meetings is not a factor of incorrect data, but rather of no one knowing who is accountable for any of the information.

Qlik Sense has not created the chaos... instead, it has exposed it.

Restore Ownership With These 5 Qlik Sense Features

1. App Owners:
Fix: Common problem: No app owner = no production app (i.e., if there is no owner, people won't trust anything in Managed Spaces).

2. Approved Apps:
Fix: Leading executives only use Approved Apps (i.e., anything not approved is by definition an experiment).

3. Lineage & Impact Analysis:
Fix: If you can’t trace something back to its origin, you can’t trust it. You can use this to find:

4. Space Permissions:
Fix: Apps are owned by groups, not people (i.e., shared accountability does not work well).

5. Usage & Reload Stats:
Fix: If the app isn’t used, it is a silent failure. Run a February kill review and if the app has low use and has no owner, then archive it.

💡Key Takeaway: 

The culture of ownership chaos has an enforceable aspect, not a cultural one. However, this aspect is observable once you have been using the platform for some time... which will be during the month of February.

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