Smarter Data, More Flexible Analytics, Better User Experiences

We’re excited to introduce the May 2026 release of Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (client-managed). This release delivers meaningful enhancements across data scripting, visualization flexibility, and user experience helping your teams move faster from data to insight while improving performance, governance, and usability.

Below is a breakdown of what’s new, why it matters, and how your teams can benefit.

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It's May — and just like a certain galaxy far, far away, things are heating up. The Qlik Replicate May 2026 Technical Preview has landed, and it's ready for you to put through its paces.

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Most enterprise AI projects don’t fail because the model is wrong. They fail because the data isn’t ready. Data engineering leaders are now being asked to support a new wave of generative and agentic workloads that demand fresher data, broader source coverage, tighter governance, and richer context than traditional BI ever required — and to deliver it without growing the team.

Qlik Talend Cloud Data Integration was built to close that gap. It provides a single, governed pipeline from operational sources to an open lakehouse — and on to the vector indexes, feature stores, and APIs that your AI systems actually consume. Combined with Qlik Open Lakehouse on Apache Iceberg, it turns your AI inputs into reusable AI data products: named, versioned, governed assets that any RAG application or agent can consume off the shelf.

This post walks through the reference architecture, the pipeline that produces those data products, and a worked example that takes raw CRM and product data all the way to a working RAG copilot and an agentic workflow — both running off the same Iceberg foundation.

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Talend Studio now connects natively to Qlik Open Lakehouse — query Iceberg-managed data directly from your existing Standard and Big Data jobs, with no manual JDBC configuration required. Learn how this integration works and what it means for your data workflows.

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Spotimportant changesin your dataandtake action Organizations today rely heavily on dashboards. But dashboards only work when someone goes looking. In reality, businessdata changes constantly. Metricsshift,patterns evolve, and important signals often hide within complex combinations of dimensions. Teams simplydon’thave time to check every chart every day.In many cases bythe time someone notices an issue, the window to act may already be closing. Traditional alertingdoesn’tsolve the problem either. Rules-based alerts rely on rigid thresholds, predefined logic, and ongoing maintenance. They only detect the changes you expect to see. But what about the changes youdidn’tknowto look for? That’swhywe’reexcited to introduceour newDiscovery Agent. Move from reactive monitoring to proactive insight Discovery Agentautonomouslymonitorsyour data toidentifymeaningful changes the moment they happen. Instead of relying on manual dashboard checks orrigidalert rules, Discovery Agent works behind the scenes to scan your Qlik Cloud applications and surface the insights that matter most. It automatically detects signals such as: Spikes and sudden drops Meaningful trend shifts Record highs or lows Changes in baseline behavior Forecast divergence Potential data quality issues Rather than flooding users with alerts, Discovery Agent evaluates statistical significance and prioritizes only the most meaningful insights.And with directlinking to Qlik Answers, you can use AI to explore insights further. The result:teams see what matters first and can respond faster. A new way to stay on top of your business Discovery Agent transforms how organizationsmonitorperformance. Discovery Agentpushes prioritized insights directly to users through an intelligent feed and digest. Each detected change is summarized in clear, readable language so users can quickly understand: What changed Where it happened Why it matters This dramatically reduces the time analysts spend manually checking metrics and helps organizations stay ahead of emerging issues and opportunities. See Discovery Agent in action You can explore how Discovery Agent works through this interactive walkthrough. The demo shows how Discovery Agent automatically detects anomalies, surfaces the most relevant insights, and enables users toimmediatelyexplore further inside Qlik apps. Built on the power of the Qlik Analytics Engine Discovery Agent is uniquely powerful because it is built directly on theQlik Analytics Engine,the technology at the heart of Qlik thatpowers ouranalytics experience. Theengineallows Discovery Agent to analyzemetricsand spot anomaliesacrosswide combinations of dimensionvalues,for entire data models,at high speedand scale,and at a fraction of the cost of SQL-based approaches. The engine evaluates relationships across the full dataset and supports rapid analytical calculations at scale, enablingpowerfulAI-driven discoveryoncomplex business data. With the Qlik analytics engine, Discovery Agent can: Analyze complex dimensional combinations quickly Detect patterns traditionalanalyticsmiss Scale efficiently across large data models Deliver insights withoutimpactingapp performance This approach makesautonomousmonitoringpossibleeven for large enterprise environments. From anomaly detection to agentic intelligence Discovery Agent is an important part of Qlik’sagenticexperience. Within Qlik’s evolving agentic AI architecture, specialized agents collaborate to transform data into action. Discovery Agent plays a key rolebymonitoringdata and surfacinginsightsthat other agents can reasonand act on. Over time,we plan to further integrate Discovery Agentinto our agentic systemsoyou can: Interact with Discovery Agent throughQlik Answers Use insights to triggerautomation workflows Deliver insights through email and third-party integrations Participate in broader multi-agent analytics processes This moves organizations beyond traditionalanalyticstowarda proactive, intelligentagenticenvironmentwhere AI helpsmonitorand interpret data continuously. Get started now Discovery Agent is now available inQlik Cloud Analytics, bringing proactive, AI-driven monitoring directly into your analytics workflows.Try it out now. Resources to learn more: Discovery Agent| Qlik.com What’s New in Qlik Cloud| Qlik Help How to Make Data Work for Agentic AI| Blog Data Products for Analytics| Blog Qlik Brings Agentic Analytics to General Availability and Launches MCP Server for Third-Party Assist...| Press Release Using Agentic AI to Make Sales Team Unstoppable| eBook Agentic AI| Qlik.com Why Qlik for AI| Qlik.com ...View More

In a market racing toward AI-driven outcomes, organizations are discovering a simple truth: AI is only as reliable as the data behind it.

For years, governance has often been treated as a passive function — metadata in a catalog, rules defined in isolation; data issues addressed reactively. That approach doesn’t hold up in an AI-first world.

It’s time for governance to move from passive oversight to active stewardship — embedded, accountable, and operational at the speed of the business.

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Bringingtrusted, AI-ready data products directly into Qlik Cloud Analytics Data Products for Analytics are now available in Qlik Cloud Analytics Premium and EnterpriseandQlik Sense Enterprise SaaS. With this release,youcanturn your existing QVDs and datasets into governed,discoverable, andreusabledata products, addingdataquality, context, andownership directly within your analytics environment. See how data products turn existing datasets into trusted, reusable assets for analytics and AI: Stronger foundation for analytics and AI AI is only as effective as the data it relies on. As AI becomes more a part ofeverydayworkflows, the reliability of the underlying data foundation becomes more critical. Data Products for Analytics help ensure that AI assistants, agents, and applicationsoperateon datasets that arevalidated, explainable, and aligned with the rest of your business. ThroughQlik MCP server, AI can accessyourtrusted data products,establishinga reliable foundation for responsible, scalable AI and agentic workflows. This shared foundation connects analytics, automation,and AI,so every insight is consistent and trusted. Turn trusted data into trusted insight This release brings data quality and governance directly into everyday analytics workflows, so you can move faster with confidence. Data products and data quality capabilities are now accessible fromyouractivity center, making it easy to manage.Buildand launchapplications and other analytics assets fast, right fromdata products with just a few clicks. Easily see businesscontext, data quality indicators, and theQlik Trust Scoreto help you quickly understand whether data is ready to use.Ownership, lifecycle management, and end-to-end-lineage provide transparency and accountabilityto have confidencein your data. Withdataproducts, teams can move faster from data to insight,reducing preparation time and accelerating analytics app development. Find and reusetrusteddata, faster Data productsmake it easier to discover and reuse analytics-ready data across your organization. You can browse certified, domain-focused data products under your centralized data marketplace to quicklyidentifythe right asset using business descriptions, usage context, and visible quality and trust indicators.AI-generated summaries and field descriptionsmake iteasier tounderstandcontents in adatasetfaster and reduce the timespentsearching anddocumentingsources. By making trusted data easy to find and reuse across analytics, applications, and AI workflows, teams can avoid redundant data preparation and duplicated effort.Get insightsfasterandturn existing data investments into a scalable foundation that supports consistent results across the business. Get Started Resources to learn more: What’s New in Qlik Cloud | Qlik Help Working with data products| Qlik Help Data Products| Qlik.com MaximizingData Value in the Age of AI|White Paper From DigitalSwamp to Strategic Asset: Taming QVD Chaos with a Data product Mindset| Blog ...View More

Think Iceberg is only for big data or streaming pipelines? Think again. It turns your data lake into a reliable, database-like platform — flexible, future-proof, and ready for any engine you choose.

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This feature launch marks an important step in how Qlik data can be used with AI. With support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), trusted and governed Qlik assets can now be accessed directly from the AI interfaces teams already use, while preserving context, security, and control.

This post explains what MCP enables, how it works in practice within Qlik Talend Cloud, and how existing customers can begin using MCP with their own data.

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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. We recently introduced our new agentic experience which includes out of the box agents for structured data analytics, unstructured knowledge, discover of anomies, and help & assistance along with our 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 Our unique 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, we are bringing our agentic experience to life. With this launch: 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. Qlik MCP server delivers the power of Qlik to third-party AI assistants for building custom agentic solutions powered by governed data and our unique analytics engine. 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 togetherstructure dataanalytics, unstructuredcontent, and general knowledgeto reason through questions, tasks, and problems, deliver complete and relevant answers, andtake actions to achievegoals. Understandinguser intent, it engagesour network ofagents across Qlikto: Calculate analytics using our engine and rich semanticinformationcontained in analyticsapplications Tap into knowledgebases to synthesize unstructured contentforadditionalcontext Deliver rich answers with insight, interpretation, and suggestions for open-ended, ambiguous,compoundand speculative questions Offer assistancetodeliver contextual help and automatedata and analytics tasks Trust in AI comes through transparency.Qlik Answers delivers full transparency into data sources andanalyticalcalculations, ensuring trustinresponses and insights. And, Qlik Answersremainssimple, plug-and-playand fast to adopt. Simplyconnectassistants to analyticsapplicationsandknowledge bases, then sit back and Qlik will do the rest. Opening Qlik to all AI with MCP While Qlik Answers provides plug-and-play capabilities for simple deployment, Qlik’s 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’s 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 your Qlik 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 DiscoveryAgent is Qlik’s newagent foranomalyand change detection, built directly on top of the Qlikanalytics engine. Using our engine’sability to evaluate large sets of dimensional combinations efficiently,DiscoveryAgent finds key outliers, ranks insights by significance,and delivers them throughasimple feedand daily digest. Each insight includes clear explanationand context, helping teams understand what changedand where to focus.And you can easily open insights in QlikAnswers, for further explanationsand context. DiscoveryAgent helps you stay on top ofwhat’schanging by: Continuously scanninganalyticsapplicationsfor spikes, drops, trend shifts, new baselines,and dataquality issues Evaluating significance so you get only meaningful, high-priority insights Summarizing changes in plain language so teams understand what happenedimmediately Delivering insights throughaprioritized feedand digest that push information directly to users Allowing you to directly dive in using QlikAnswers for deeperanalysisand investigation DiscoveryAgent shiftsanalytics from “pull” to “push”,activelymonitoringperformanceand surfacing what matters most, so you cantakeactionbeforeit’stoo 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, data products is now available directly in Qlik Cloud Analytics as of February 24. 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, lifecycle 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 our 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. To learn more and get started, explore the resources below: What’s New in Qlik Cloud | Qlik Help How to Make Data Work for Agentic AI | Blog Data Products for Analytics | Blog Qlik Brings Agentic Analytics to General Availability and Launches MCP Server for Third-Party Assistants| Press Release Using Agentic AI to Make Sales Team Unstoppable| eBook Agentic AI | Qlik.com Why Qlik for AI | Qlik.com Deep dive into Qlik Answers and Qlik’s MCP Server: Qlik Answers | Qlik Help Enabling cross-region data processing | Qlik Help MCP Server | Qlik Help Deploying and administering Qlik MCP Server | Qlik Help ...View More