The Qlik Agentic experience introduces a unified conversational interface for working with data and analytics, delivering fast, explainable, context-aware responses through Qlik Answers. It also enables customers to securely use external LLMs with trusted Qlik data with our MCP server, and includes specialized agents that automate analysis and action—while allowing users to stay in their preferred AI interface.
And it is, of course, underpinned by Qlik's core strengths:
Trusted data products built from high-quality, governed data
An open agentic architecture that allows both Qlik agents and third-party AI assistants to tap into the full range of Qlik capabilities
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 will provide always-on anomaly and change detection, proactively surfacing meaningful, high-priority outliers and anomalies through a simple insights feed. Available in March.
Data products in Analytics extend data products and quality capabilities into the analytics workflow, strengthening the foundation for agentic AI. Available February 24th.
You can read about all four launch highlights in our Innovation Blog post, Qlik’s Agentic Experience is Here, where we'll walk you through the details on each.
And when you're ready to get started and learn more, explore our resources:
If you mean Qlik Sense Enterprise on-premise and Qlik Answers: No. Qlik Answers is cloud only.
There are no plans to bring Qlik Answers to on-premises environments. The product relies on cloud native AI services, managed infrastructure, and continuous model evolution.
How to find out if mcp server is enabled on tenant or not ? Corespoding option in permissions is missing , on same tenant agentic qlik answers are working
I set up an Oauth which included the mcp: execute scope and also created a new user role and assigned / allowed MCP. However, now the mcp: execute scope is missing from the Oauth set up and I no longer see the MCP feature in the user role. I did ensure that the 'Enable cross-region data processing' setting is still checked. Is this a temporary issue?
That sounds like we might need to take a look with you. Please contact Support (you can do so quickly using chat or log a ticket in the portal) so we can investigate this with you.
@Sonja_Bauernfeind I set up Answers for a quick run through, and responses were painfully slow - a tiny demo app (just CTRL+0 0 in Data Load Editor) and no matter how simple of a prompt I try, it takes about 90 seconds to get a response. Is this the expected behavior?
Hey @Or - I saw Qlik listed this message in the Agentic Answers FAQ:
"We have made a deliberate design decision to prioritize the quality of answers and insights over the speed of responses. In general, Qlik provides a far richer reasoning process and answer than competing products, and this results in a longer response time. We are planning to improve and optimize this, as well as introduce a faster mode for simpler questions in the future."
I'm hoping its a combination of that choice and the immense traffic that I am sure is being generated with the announcement. I'm seeing general slowdown in performance in several tenants - but I imagine this will decline over time once everyone has had a go with it.
Hopefully 90 seconds isn't indicative of what it'll be like moving forward, because I don't think users are going to be very understanding of a conversation where each response takes 90 seconds. That's like trying to chat via fax. 🙂
You're absolutely right - responsiveness is critical for a great conversational experience, and we're committed to that.
We have improvements in the pipeline, including Fast Mode, to optimize response times based on query complexity. The goal is intelligent routing - straightforward questions like "What were sales last quarter?" should get fast answers, while complex multi-step analysis that requires deeper reasoning will naturally take more time.
We're actively working on refining this balance to ensure that simple queries get the quick responses users expect, while still delivering the depth and accuracy that makes Qlik Answers powerful for complex analytical questions.
