A massive step forward for AI-powered intelligence
The Next-Generation of Intelligent Action
For decades, organizations have sought to better use their data to inform decisions and drive better actions and outcomes. Data has become the lifeblood of companies, and AI now has the power to unlock it in radical new ways. The data paradigm has shifted—from dashboards and visual interfaces to AI-driven experiences.
Recently, Qlik launched a new agentic experience which includes out of the box agents for structured data analytics, unstructured knowledge, discover of anomalies, and help & assistance along with Qlik MCP Server —enabling third party AI assistants to tap into Qlik’s power for custom-built AI solutions. This intelligent layer unifies data, agents, assistants, and platforms to deliver powerful analysis, to deliver powerful analytics, automate multi-step tasks, and achieve complex goals.
And of course, it’s underpinned by Qlik’s core strengths:
- Trusted data products built from high-quality, governed data
- The Qlik analytics engine optimized for fast, incremental calculations supporting chain-of-thought reasoning
- An open agentic architecture that allows both Qlik agents and third-party AI assistants to tap into the full range of Qlik capabilities
Now, Qlik is bringing their agentic experience to life. With this launch:
- Qlik MCP Server becomes your unified agentic AI assistant, reasoning across structured and unstructured data with the power of AI’s knowledge and capability to deliver insight, assistance, and automation.
- Qlik Answers becomes your unified agentic AI assistant, reasoning across structured and unstructured data with the power of AI’s knowledge and capability to deliver insight, assistance, and automation.
- Discovery Agent provides always-on anomaly and change detection, proactively surfacing meaningful, high-priority outliers and anomalies through a simple insights feed.
- Data Products for Analytics extend data products and quality capabilities into the analytics workflow and strengthen the foundation for agentic AI.
A new agentic experience in Qlik Answers
As your AI assistant, Qlik Answers brings together structure data analytics, unstructured content, and general knowledge to reason through questions, tasks, and problems, deliver complete and relevant answers, and take actions to achieve goals.
Understanding user intent, it engages our network of agents across Qlik to:
- Calculate analytics using our engine and rich semantic information contained in analytics applications
- Tap into knowledge bases to synthesize unstructured content for additional context
- Deliver rich answers with insight, interpretation, and suggestions for open-ended, ambiguous, compound and speculative questions
- Offer assistance to deliver contextual help and automate data and analytics tasks
Trust in AI comes through transparency. Qlik Answers delivers full transparency into data sources and analytical calculations, ensuring trust in responses and insights.
And, Qlik Answers remains simple, plug-and-play and fast to adopt. Simply connect assistants to analytics applications and knowledge bases, then sit back and Qlik will do the rest.
Discover how Qlik Answers transforms the way teams work with data. As part of Qlik’s newly released agentic experience in Qlik Cloud, Qlik Answers brings together natural language interaction, the power of the Qlik Analytics Engine, and governed, trusted data, all supported with transparent reasoning and citations.
Change How You Work through AI
Meet Qlik Answers — your natural language AI assistant that helps you make better decisions and be more productive using all your trusted data.
Improve Decision Making
Get Answers
Qlik Answers combines the unique power of the Qlik analytics engine with world-class LLMs to deliver a complete and contextually relevant insights from your analytics and unstructured content, with full explainability and trust.
Your Productivity Powerhouse
Boost Outpoot
Empower Qlik users and developers with personalized help and assistance across the Qlik platform, and automate tasks and workflows for enhanced efficiency.
Fast plug-and-play Deployment
Fast Time to Value
Get up and running in hours, not months, with fast plug-and-play deployment built on Qlik’s cutting-edge agentic AI architecture.
Why Qlik Answers Stands Apart
Unlock game-changing insighs
Put all your data to work
Combine analytics, unstructured data, and knowledge from LLMs to generate the most complete and relevant answers.
Explore and follow your thought
Ask follow up questions and follow your chain of thought, with contextual analytics from the Qlik Engine and powerful agentic reasoning from LLMs.
Ensure trust through transparency
Full explainability into analytical reasoning and citations for unstructured content ensure confidence in every answer.
A new Agentic AI experience
Complex, multi-step reasoning
Break down and execute complex questions using agentic reasoning with increasing autonomy.
A game-changing engine
Leverage Qlik’s unique analytics engine for super-fast, cost-efficient calculations and deeper insights.
Plug-and-play deployment
Get started in under an hour — easy to configure, fast time-to-value.
AI POTENTIAL
Unlock AI’s Full Potential
Insight for everyone
The power of data at your fingertips
- Make better decisions faster with personalized, AI-generated answers.
- Deliver insight to far more people through natural language interaction.
- Combine your analytics and unstructured data with knowledge from LLMs.
Help and assistance
Personalized support when you need it
- Get answers from help content based on where you are and what you’re doing.
- Automate developer tasks using natural language.
- Empower business users with guidance to improve insight and adoption.
Fast, simple deployment
Create standalone AI assistants with ease
- Build assistants through a simple, accessible workflow.
- Add analytics apps and unstructured content in knowledge bases.
- Easily embed assistants in operational apps for answers where you work.
In the video below, you can get an inside look at how Qlik Answers helps you:
→ Turn business questions into governed, explainable insights
→ Work with both structured analytics and unstructured content
→ Understand how conclusions were reached through cited sources
→ Make faster, more confident decisions backed by enterprise‑grade governance
This release is part of Qlik’s broader announcement, including:
→ General availability of Qlik Answers
→ Launch of the Qlik MCP server, enabling assistants like Anthropic Claude to securely access Qlik’s analytics and data products
→ A new ecosystem of agents built for transparency, accountability, and real‑world decision workflows
Want to start using Qlik Answers with confidence? Watch the video below to see the steps you’ll need.
Opening Qlik to all AI with MCP
While Qlik Answers provides plug-and-play capabilities for simple deployment, Qlik MCP Server enables you to custom build complex AI solutions on top of Qlik’s powerful capabilities, underpinned by our trusted data products and analytics engine.
Qlik MCP Server acts as the doorway between third-party AI assistants and trusted intelligence delivered by Qlik.
Through MCP, AI assistants can:
- Access a complete set of tools across the Qlik portfolio for insight and automation
- Generate the most complete answers and insights from your data using the power of yourQlik estate
- Automate data and analytics workflows, from creating data products to generating analytics and dashboards
- Leverage our trusted data products and analytics engine for fast, cost-efficient calculations
Through MCP, Qlik serves as a trusted intelligence layer for all AI. It gives AI the most complete and contextually relevant insight, better support for agentic reasoning, and productivity through automation across Qlik capabilities.
Never miss a critical change with Discovery Agent
Available March
Discovery Agent
is Qlik’s new agent for anomaly and change detection, built directly on top of the Qlik analytics engine.
Using the power of Qlik’s engine efficiency to evaluate large sets of dimensional combinations efficiently, Discovery Agent finds key outliers, ranks insights by significance, and delivers them through a simple feed and daily digest. Each insight includes clear explanation and context, helping teams understand what changed and where to focus. And you can easily open insights in Qlik Answers, for further explanations and context.
Discovery Agent helps you stay on top of what’s changing by:
- Continuously scanning analytics applications for spikes, drops, trend shifts, new baselines, and data quality issues
- Evaluating significance so you get only meaningful, high-priority insights
- Summarizing changes in plain language so teams understand what happened immediately
- Delivering insights through a prioritized feed and digest that push information directly to users
Discovery Agent shifts analytics from “pull” to ”push”, actively monitoring performance and surfacing what matters most, so you can take action before it’s too late.
Bringing trusted data products into analytics
Available February 24
Trusted data is a foundational requirement for successful AI. In order to drive the most effective and trustworthy AI experiences, Qlik is making their data products available directly for Qlik Cloud Analytics customers later this month.
Bringing these capabilities into Qlik Cloud Analytics extends proven data product, data quality, governance, and trust scoring features—previously only in Qlik Talend Cloud—directly into the analytics workflow, strengthening Qlik’s trusted foundation for agentic AI.
This also allows customers with existing QVDs to manage them as governed, reusable data product assets enriched with:
- Business context and semantic meaning
- Data quality rules and our patented Qlik Trust Score for measurable, AI-ready outcomes
- Ownership, life-cycle management, and end-to-end lineage
By embedding trust and reuse directly into analytics, data products reduce duplication, accelerate development, and ensure consistency across dashboards, applications, and AI initiatives.
How Qlik new agentic experience makes your data work for AI
Whether using Qlik Answers or accessing Qlik through MCP, Qlik’s unique capabilities help you realize the full potential of AI. Qlik delivers the trusted intelligence you need for AI. With Qlik, you can unlock transformative potential—driving better decisions, more efficient actions, and greater value from your data across your entire business.
Start building with your agentic experience today.
Qlik Answers and Qlik MCP Server are now live, bringing agentic AI into Qlik Cloud and opening Qlik’s trusted intelligence to third-party AI assistants for custom solutions.
Discovery Agent and Data Products for Analytics will be available soon, expanding the experience with proactive anomaly detection and trusted, AI-ready data products.
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