When opening a Forts app in Qlik Cloud, you are redirected to the fort and can work with the app in the same way as an app stored on Qlik Cloud. While your tenant on the Qlik Cloud instance can use data sources that are accessible over public internet, Forts are deployed behind a firewall so that they can access your private data sources. The following image shows the basic idea behind Forts. To read about the benefits of Qlik Forts, please see our webpage: Qlik Forts. Qlik Cloud is hosted by Qlik, the forts are hosted by the customer, but Qlik maintains both the tenant and Forts. The forts are virtual appliances that are located together with the company data. The company also has three forts in different countries in the EU region. The following image shows an example where a company has a Qlik Cloud tenant in Ireland, in the EU region. Forts cannot be used without the Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS edition of Qlik Cloud.

Qlik Cloud and Forts work together as a single solution. A virtual appliance is a virtual machine that is completely pre-configured and maintained by Qlik, including the operating system, tools, and software services that run on it. Forts are client-hosted virtual appliances, maintained by Qlik, meaning that the fort updates itself, and Qlik will use this capability to push new versions and patches to a fort.

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