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.
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
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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.
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.
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
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