Skybridge

What it is

Skybridge is a suite of Office add-ins, web reporting tools, and administration surfaces for bringing Qlik Cloud analytics into everyday business workflows. It covers Excel, PowerPoint, Word, browser reports, licensing, telemetry, and tenant-level configuration.

The goal is to make Qlik content reusable where reporting actually happens, instead of treating Office exports as disconnected static artifacts.

Architecture

The suite is organized around shared packages for Qlik integration, UI, Office bridging, licensing, and host-specific applications. That keeps common concerns such as authentication, object discovery, selections, storage, and entitlement checks out of individual add-ins.

The system also includes provider operations, content-library management, tenant setup, and cross-host documentation, which reflects the product surface: not just one add-in, but a coordinated platform.

Design choices

Skybridge treats licensing and feature access as part of the product architecture rather than an afterthought. Feature flags, entitlement checks, and admin workflows are built into the same platform as the add-ins.

Automated testing is central because Office hosts, browsers, and Qlik tenants all introduce integration risk. The current testing focus is regression coverage around PowerPoint behavior and cross-tenant scenarios.

Current state

Active. The current focus is production hardening across the Office hosts, licensing admin, provider workflows, and Qlik integration paths.