KNIME Team plan now lets you share interactive data apps with peers and stakeholders.
Data apps let you put a user-friendly front-end on your KNIME workflows – whether that’s for presenting your findings as visualizations, getting user input into your analytical models, or simply capturing data from domain experts to add to a database.
You can build your data apps in KNIME Analytics Platform then share them via your internet browser using the KNIME Team plan.
The Team plan is KNIME’s SaaS option for small teams. It supports collaboration, workflow scheduling and, now, data apps. No complex IT set up needed. You can sign up with a credit card, and get the first month free.
you can share with registered users outside of your team - i.e. the users don’t need to be licensed users associated with your team. we call these users “consumers”.
at this point, we don’t support unauthenticated sharing of Data Apps on C-Hub (it’s supported on B-Hub, though).
So just to confirm:
If I want to share a Data App from C-Hub, the viewer still needs to be a registered KNIME user, even if they’re not part of my licensed team (you call them “consumers”).
And unauthenticated (public) sharing is only available on B-Hub, not C-Hub.
Is that what you meant?
That said, from a consultancy and outreach perspective, it would be ideal if unauthenticated view-only access was possible regardless of platform.
Morover, being able to share a simple public link, like in Tableau Public or Google Data Studio, would really help demonstrate the value of KNIME to my potential clients and stakeholders who don’t yet have accounts or familiarity with the platform.
totally agreed. We can enable the feature of sharing with unauthenticated users on C-Hub relatively easily (this is what we do here: Data App examples | KNIME).
However, we’re a bit hesitant at this point to open up this feature due to lack of fine-granular control mechanisms (e.g. consumption limits etc). If you put a link out there to a Data App this will trigger consumption due to the nature of Data Apps (they are not static, but heavily dynamic).
would really help demonstrate the value of KNIME to my potential clients and stakeholders who don’t yet have accounts or familiarity with the platform.
they don’t really need to know KNIME or anything, but only create an account when accessing the data app e.g. via the data app portal: https://apps.hub.knime.com/ Maybe that already helps?
Thanks for clarifying that and for getting back to me quickly!
A full appreciation of your position on uncontrolled consumption issues—not to mention that Data Apps exist as living, not static, snapshots. However, the benefit of unauthenticated access, even in read-only or limited terms, would be significant when attempting to illustrate the value of KNIME to prospective stakeholders.
For now, I’d suggest taking the portal-entry route you outlined. Asking users to create a basic KNIME account is still much less of an ask than full onboarding.
Appreciate your willingness, and I’d be happy to assist in any additional development of richer access controls—it might well do much to further enhance KNIME’s visibility in stakeholder-concentrated use case scenarios.
As Martin Luther King famously used to say, “I have a dream.” I, too, have one—which is to be able to share what value I gain from data to other people which will only view Data Apps without them needing to type in a username or password. Alas, I do get “lectured” at times on this, even from CXX-level stakeholders. That’s why I did pose that question to start with. Thanks many times over!
That’s fantastic feedback for our team, thank you very much. Please keep it coming, we’re more than interested learning from the actual users and improve our offerings accordingly. We already have some new things in the pipeline
The Team plan is KNIME’s SaaS option for small teams. It supports collaboration, workflow scheduling and, now, data apps. No complex IT set up needed. You can sign up with a credit card, and get the first month free.
