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Data now moves across teams, platforms, and AI-driven processes at a pace and scale that makes traditional passive governance insufficient. Ensuring data trust requires active validation by domain experts, structured accountability, and outcome-aligned remediation. We are announcing general availability of Data Stewardship in Qlik Talend Cloud (Premium and Enterprise) — a new capability designed to operationalize data trust.
So, why does data stewardship matter
Because in AI-driven environments – lack of data trust can quickly elevate the risks.
Take for example, a healthcare network uses AI to prioritize outreach to high-risk patients. The system flags thousands of records with missing allergy information, but it cannot act on what it means for the business. Are the allergies missing, or stored in another system? Is it safe to move forward with outreach, or should it pause until more information is gathered?
A data steward reviews the situation, confirms the business impact, assigns ownership, and decides whether the data is safe to use. That human judgment keeps the AI workflow both responsible and reliable.
Data Stewardship in Qlik Talend Cloud accelerates governance initiatives, moving from passive to active and collaborative workflows — aligning business, data, and AI teams around a shared, trusted view of data.
Why you should use data stewardship in Qlik
Accelerate resolution with sprint-based workflows
Traditional governance processes are often ad hoc and reactive. Issues are discovered late, ownership is unclear, and remediation cycles stretch across weeks or months.
Data Stewardship introduces sprint-based workflows that replace fragmented processes with structured execution that is assigned, prioritized, tracked.
Clear ownership and SLAs bring accountability across domains. Instead of firefighting, teams move toward proactive stewardship — reducing remediation cycle times and improving transparency.
Standardize Trust with Pervasive Data Quality
Trust should not depend on isolated pure rule-based checks or tribal knowledge. Data stewardship makes data quality into a continuous, accountable practice. Instead of treating quality as a one-time check, embedded quality controls and observability signals continuously monitor, measure, and surface issues across the data lifecycle — driving proactive improvement rather than reactive fixes.
Bring domain experts into the trust loop
Automated systems are powerful — but they cannot infer business meaning on their own.
Data Stewardship brings business and data stewards directly into validation and remediation processes. Domain experts collaborate to validate flagged issues, assess business impact, apply domain-context specific remediation, and confirm resolution.
This human-in-the-loop model ensures that decisions reflect real-world business semantics — not just technical correctness. The result is higher reliability, stronger alignment, and more relevant data for downstream consumption including AI and agentic use-cases.
Run stewardship operations where data resides
Moving data across tools just to manage governance adds complexity and risk.
Data Stewardship operates directly where the data lives. By running stewardship workflows in place, organizations can avoid unnecessary data movement leveraging their existing data infrastructure (such as Snowflake), minimize operational overhead, and reduce security and compliance exposure.
Conclusion
Data quality and governance is a team effort, and data stewardship acts as the connective layer linking business users, data engineers, and AI teams. It creates clearer alignment, accelerates decision making, and strengthens organizational confidence — especially as business users drive data-powered initiatives and adopt AI. To learn more and get started, check out our documentation.
If you’d like to see Data Stewardship (and how it works with agents) in action or discuss practical data quality and governance use cases, join us at Qlik Connect 2026, taking place April 13–15, 2026 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, Florida. This global customer event will bring together practitioners, product teams, and peers to explore real-world uses of data, analytics, and emerging capabilities.
Analytics only deliver value when insight is trusted. And trust comes from understanding the data behind it; where it came from, how it’s defined, and whether it’s fit for use.
Data Products for Analytics are now available in Qlik Cloud Analytics Premium and Enterprise and Qlik Sense Enterprise.
With this release, you can turn your existing QVDs and datasets into governed, discoverable, and reusable data products, adding data quality, context, and ownership directly within your analytics environment.
What this brings:
Read more in our Innovation blog: Data Products for Analytics Now Available
And once you're ready to get started, here's what you'll need:
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現在の AI 時代において、データ品質が重要なのはもちろん、必要不可欠でもあります。 AI 時代において、信頼性の高い AI 主導のインサイトの生成、信頼できる高品質のデータを使用したエージェンティック AI の強化が重視されています。こうしたニーズに低品質のデータを使用すると、AI 戦略の最初の段階で失敗する可能性があります。
Gartner 社は、「2026年 Gartner® 拡張データ品質ソリューション Magic Quadrant」を発表しました。Gartner 社が評価した 13 社のデータ品質ベンダーの中で、Qlik は今回で 7 回目となるリーダーの 1 社に評価されました。
自社のビジネスニーズに最適なデータ品質ソリューションを選択するには?ぜひ、本レポートをご参考ください。
本ブログは "Data Quality Is the Guardrail for Agentic AI" の翻訳です。
著者:Matt Hayes
AI が運用段階に入るにつれ、データ品質の重要性はかつてないほど高まっています。AI が単に成果物を出力する段階は過ぎ去りました。AI は実際のワークフローにおいて、開始、ルーティング、実行を担いつつあります。当社が最近発表したエージェンティック体験に対する市場の反響は、顧客・パートナー双方から非常に高く、あるパートナーは「まさに、これこそが AI に期待していた姿だ」と完璧に言い表しました。
この変化は刺激的であると同時に、リスクが急激に高まる領域でもあります。AI が行動を起こすようになると、「まあまあ良いデータ」ではもはや不十分になるのです。
その理由を実例で説明しましょう。顧客離反リスクを検知し、自動的に顧客維持ワークフローを起動する AI エージェントを想像してください。割引を提案し、担当者にケースを報告し、更新可能性の予測を最新にします。もし基盤となるアカウントデータが重複していたり、所有製品の情報が古かったり、契約ステータスが間違っていたりすると、エージェントは単に誤った洞察を生成するだけでなく、誤った行動を取ります、しかも大規模に。これが「まあまあ良いデータ」では不十分になる理由です。
市場は AI、生成 AI、エージェントによって加速しており、データ品質はその中心に位置します。なぜなら、信頼され管理されたデータこそが AI の取り組みを現実のものとするからです。レポートの中で特に印象に残った一節は、Gartner の戦略的予測「2027年までに、組織の 70% が AI 導入とデジタルビジネス戦略をより効果的に支援するため、最新のデータ品質ソリューションを採用する」です。これは単なる「ツールの流行」という一過性のものではなく、根本的なシフトが起きているという兆候なのです。
AI が運用段階に入ると、品質とガバナンスはもはや技術的選択肢ではなくなり、AI を大規模にかつ安全に展開できるかどうかを決定するガードレールとなるのです。
従来、データ品質は事後対応型のプロジェクトとして扱われてきました。データをプロファイリングし、クリーンアップし、次に進む。このモデルは機能しなくなります。なぜなら、エージェンティック AI の世界ではデータは静止しないからです。拡張されたデータ品質とは、活性化されたメタデータによって駆動される AI 強化機能を活用し、問題を早期に発見し、文脈に沿った修正を提案し、自動化可能な部分を自動化します。これにより、データが長期にわたり信頼性と実用性を維持できるのです。データ資産がハイブリッド化し、データソースが拡大し続け、AI システムが信頼できるデータを一時的ではなく継続的に必要とする状況において、これこそが積極的に求めるべきものなのです。
今年の Magic Quadrant は、AI 拡張に関する優先順位の明確な転換を示しています。もはや「あれば良い」ものではなく、成功に不可欠な要素となったのです。
Qlik のパフォーマンスは、顧客が今まさに求めているもの、すなわちハイブリッド環境全体で品質とガバナンスを支えるメタデータ駆動型アプローチと一致していると考えます。自動化と AI 向け Qlik Trust Score により、AI 対応に向けたデータセットの適合性を評価する支援を実現しています。非構造化データの品質は今や中核要件であり、もはや新興トレンドではありません。これは当社がデータパイプラインに組み込み、買収と Qlik Answers® の導入を通じて拡大してきたものです。
エージェンティックなデータエンジニアリングプロジェクトを構築する場合、AI の基盤は重要です。それは次のような疑問への答えとなります。このエージェントが使用しているデータとその品質はどのようなものか、データの出所はどこか、適用されたルールは何か、何がいつ変更されたか、修正責任者は誰か。これが、デモは印象的だが実用化できない AI と、信頼できるデータに裏打ちされた説明責任を伴う実用化可能な AI との違いなのです。
詳細な洞察を得るにはレポートをダウンロードしてください(今年は興味深い動きもあります)。以下に私の要点をまとめます。
データとエージェンティック AI をさらに深く学びたい方は、4月 13日~15日にフロリダ州キシミーで開催される Qlik Connect へぜひご参加ください。実践的なセッションに加え、志を同じくする仲間や Qlik エキスパートとの交流の場もご用意しています。
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Augmented Data Quality Solutions. Sue Waite, Divya Radhakrishnan, Amy Bickel, 11 February 2026.
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多くの企業が AI に投資しているにもかかわらず、投資利益率を高めている企業はごく少数です。何を改善すべきなのか?AI を最大限に活用するには、新たなモデルの導入が必要です。
Qlik は、「DARE インテリジェングリッド」という枠組みに沿って、企業が成功するために押さえておくべき 12 のトレンドを特定しました。データ・エージェント・人間がタッグを組むことで、初めてデータ・分析・AI から真の価値を得ることができます。
特設サイトでは、登録無料で 2026年のトレンド Web セミナーやスペシャル動画を視聴したり、ガイドブックをダウンロードいただけます。
本 Web セミナーシリーズでは、Qlik でデータからアクションを起こすデータ主導のビジネスで成功しているお客様より、課題から導入の経緯、デモンストレーション、活用例などをご紹介します。
金沢工業大学では、2004年以降、大学のさまざまな業務の遂行や学生の管理に情報システムが利用されてきました。一方、システムに蓄積されていたデータは、各部署で局所的に分析に利用されていましたが、入学から卒業まで大域的につないで、どのような学生が成長しているのか、もしくは修学に躓くのかを明らかにすることには利用されていませんでした。その中、2021年に文部科学省からの補助金を得て、大学全体のデータを接続し、Qlik Sense を導入して大域的な分析を行うプラットフォームを構築しました。このことにより、学生の学びのプロセスをより詳細に分析できるようになり、学生の成長をデータに基づきながら支援できるようになっています。
本 Web セミナーでは、プラットフォームの構築や分析手法、結果に基づく学生の修学支援の内容について、お話しいたします。また、導入の経緯や今後の展望などについて、クリックテック・ジャパンの公共担当営業との対談で詳しくお話しいたします。
Xero has announced the deprecation of several Accounting API objects, effective 28th of April 2026. These changes will impact existing Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Stitch Xero connectors.
The following objects will be deprecated by Xero:
To support customers ahead of the deprecation date, Qlik plans two minor connector releases:
This update introduced intentional failures designed to prompt you to take action before the endpoint is removed:
All references to the Employees, Expense Claims, and Receipts endpoints will be fully removed from the connector.
From this date forward:
If you have any questions, we're happy to assist. Reply to this blog post or take your queries to our Support Chat.
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The Department of Data Science, Anurag University, organized another successful hackathon, "Data Dynamo 2.0" on January 30-31, 2026 where a number of students from the city of Hyderabad and Telangana State participated.
The event marked a significant initiative to bring aspiring data enthusiasts from diverse educational institutions together. Designed with the dual purpose of promoting experiential learning and encouraging innovative problem-solving, the hackathon provided a platform for students to apply theoretical knowledge to real-world data challenges. The hackathon was conducted across the following domains: Web/App Dev, AI/ML & LLMs, Data Analytics, IoT, and Blckchain/Cybersecurity.
Qlik was associated with the data analytics domain.
Beyond technical rigor, the event fostered collaboration, creativity, and intellectual growth, making it a great learning experience. This Hackathon was conducted under the leadership and guidance of Dr.M.Sridevi, Head of the Department, Data Science, Ms. B. Jyothi, Assistant Professor, Data Analytics Technical Club Convener, Mr.Salar Mohammad, Datum Technical Club Convener.
The total number of students participating in this Hackathon was more than 600 across 190 teams.
The number of students participating in the Qlik domain for data analytics was 150.
Students who participated in the Qlik domain were oriented about the basics of Qlik Sense along with explaining the key features and building dashboards, through two bootcamps. These camps were conducted by Qlik Educator Ambassador, Manikant Roy from Jaipuria Institute of Management and former student and winner of last year's Datathon, Moguluri Koushik.
Participating students registered for the Qlik Academic Program so that they have access to the free software, training and qualifications. The software was used during the datathon and the training helped them build apps and dashboards.
AI の勢いを持続的なビジネス成果へ
アジア太平洋地域全体で AI の勢いが高まっている中、ビジネスでの試験的な活用が進み、期待も高まっています。
課題は、「AI の適用開始」ではなく「持続」です。多くの企業で AI 戦略の障壁となっているのは、テクノロジーの問題ではありません。サイロ化されたデータ、レガシー環境の複雑性、人材のスキル不足、不明瞭な意思決定です。
Web セミナー「トレンドを語る:AI の勢いを持続的なビジネス成果へ」にご参加ください。分断や見えないリスクを回避して AI の勢いを行動につなげるには?アジア太平洋地域の企業が押さえておくべき 2026年のトレンドについて、データのエキスパートが議論します。
本 Web セミナーでは、試験段階から本番運用への移行、スピードと信頼のバランス、全社展開を支える基盤の構築など、実際の現場に適用できるポイントを中心に掘り下げます。
本ブログは "How to Make Data Work for Agentic AI" の翻訳です。
数十年にわたり、組織はデータを活用してより良い意思決定を行い、成果を向上させる取り組みを続けてきました。データはビジネスの生命線となり、AI は今や新たな方法でその可能性を解き放つ力を備えています。ダッシュボードやビジュアルインターフェースから AI 駆動の体験へと、パラダイムは移行しつつあるのです。
しかし、依然として大量のデータがサイロ化され、不完全で不正確なまま放置されている現実があります。多くの分析ワークフローは手作業に依存したままであり、これが価値創出までの時間を遅らせ、インサイトの質を制限し、コストを押し上げています。AI 支援作業でさえ停滞することがあります。なぜなら、アナリストは依然として入力データを集め、正確な質問を投げかけなければ答えに辿り着けないからです。
もし AI が、安全かつ確実に、より多くの重労働を担うことができたらどうでしょう?
それが「エージェンティックAI」の約束であり、急速に現実のものとなりつつあります。エージェンティック AI は、多段階の問題を推論し、アプローチを適応させ、最小限の人間の関与で目標達成に必要な能力を活用できます。適切に運用されれば、インサイトの加速とコスト削減を実現し、チームが手作業ではなくビジネスの遂行に集中できるよう支援します。
Qlik のビジョンは、人間のように協調するエージェントのインテリジェントネットワークです。問題を分解し、適切なリソースとデータを収集し、意思決定を行い、最適な次行動を実行します。
本日、構造化データ分析、非構造化知識、異常検知、ヘルプ&アシスタンス向けのターンキーエージェントを含む、新たなエージェンティック体験を提供開始します。さらに、サードパーティ製 AI アシスタントが Qlik の機能を活かしたカスタム AI ソリューション構築を可能にする MCP サーバーを導入します。
当社のエージェントを利用する場合も、MCP 経由で Qlik にアクセスする場合も、Qlik の独自の機能により AI の真の可能性を最大限に引き出せます。
信頼性の高いデータ製品は、AI 向けに厳選された高品質データセットであり、タイムリーで正確かつガバナンスの効いた基盤を構築します。当社独自の分析エンジンは、高速かつコスト効率の高い計算で思考連鎖を可能にし、新たなレベルの文脈理解を実現することで、そのデータを活用します。これらを統合することで、当社のエージェンティック体験が実現され、データ・エージェント・アシスタント・プラットフォームを統合し、強力な分析、多段階タスクの自動化、複雑な目標達成を可能にします。
入り口は2つ設けられています。
すでに一般提供を開始しています。Qlik Answers(Qlik 内の AI アシスタント)は提供開始されました。また、MCP Server は外部アシスタントやカスタムビルドを通じて Qlik への管理されたアクセスを提供します。
Qlik Cloud Analytics Premium/Enterprise および Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS に付属する「Data Products for Analytics」は、これらの体験を支える厳選されたタイムリーで正確な管理対象データセットとしてまもなく提供開始します。さらに「Discovery Agent」がディメンション横断的な KPI を監視し、有意な変化を検知。ユーザーは発見結果を直接 Qlik Answers で確認することが可能になります。
これらの発表は、3つの実践的な方法で当社の約束を強化します。Qlik は単なる基盤ではありません。基盤に注力しつつ、より優れたビジネス成果の実現を推進しています。
実際の顧客環境、現場のリアルデータ、実際の役割、具体的な課題のもとで迅速に学ぶため、エージェンティック体験をプライベートプレビューで提供しました。特に顕著だった事例をいくつかご紹介します。
ベンチマーク調査でもこれを実証しました。構造化データ向け Qlik Answers と主要競合製品を比較した社内ベンチマークでは、Qlikは 69.6% の精度(競合65.2%)を達成。さらに「質問1件ごとに課金」というシンプルな価格体系と、単なるクエリ出力ではなく洞察に富んだ回答に重点を置いた点が評価されました。
特に迅速な移行を希望されるお客様向けに、導入が容易な設計としています。
AI の進化はモデル開発の段階を既に超えています。真の課題は、AI を信頼性が高く説明可能で業務フローにおいて有用なものにすることです。分析と知識を結びつけられず、次の行動を統制できない場合、それは自律型 AI ではなく、説明責任のない自動化に過ぎません。
「AIのためにデータを活用する – データを 人工知能 の原動力に」とはまさにこういうことです。
When building dashboards that involve any kind of leaderboard or competitive comparison, it’s always good to show how rankings shift over time. Not just "who's #1 right now," but the full story: who climbed, who dropped, when the shift happened.
Qlik Sense doesn't have a native bump chart. The usual workaround is a line chart with pre-calculated ranks, but I wanted to push this further and add some more interactivity and options.
The idea for creating this extension came after doing some updates on the Formula1 web app which uses a native D3.js chart, so I wanted to transfer that code over to a Qlik Sense extension that can be reused in other apps.
The extension makes it easy for you. You just add two dimensions and one measure, and it takes care of everything else: ranking, time sorting, labels, hover highlighting, and field selections. The object properties will let you customize it to your needs.
In this post I'll walk through what it does, how it's structured, and how you can use it for various use cases.
Github Repo: https://github.com/olim-dev/qlik-bump-chart
What is a Bump Chart?
A bump chart shows how entities change position relative to each other over time. Each entity gets a colored line. Rank #1 sits at the top. As rankings shift, lines cross, and you immediately see who's moving up, who's falling, and when an overtake happens.
What can you do with this extension?
Use Cases
The pattern is always the same: entities, time periods, and a measure.
How to set it up
Add two dimensions and one measure:
I have attached a Text file with some sample datasets that you can inline-load in a new app to test it.
Quick tour of the object properties
The property panel has clear labels for which dimension goes on which axis. Here are the sections that matter most:
Chart Settings: Maximum Entities (2-30, sweet spot is 8-15), Rank Direction (highest or lowest value = #1), Line Style (smooth, straight, step).
Position Mode: Instead of auto-calculating ranks, use the raw measure value as the Y position. Great for race data where position is already known.
Labels: Position them on the right, left, or both sides. Rank change indicators (triangle arrows) show how many spots an entity moved. Clicking a label triggers a Qlik selection.
Highlight: Automatically highlight top N, bottom N, or biggest movers with a configurable glow color.
Colors: Six built-in palettes (Vibrant, Qlik Classic, Category 10, Extended 20, Cool, Warm) plus a custom background color.
Animation: Toggle transitions on/off, adjust duration (100-1500ms), and a "Replay Animation" button to re-run the line-drawing effect.
Selections: Toggle selections on/off
The extension folder structure
qlik-bump-chart/
qlik-bump-chart.qext Extension definitions
qlik-bump-chart.js Main entry (Qlik lifecycle, paint, selections)
qlik-bump-chart-properties.js Property panel definition
qlik-bump-chart-renderer.js D3 rendering engine
qlik-bump-chart-data.js Data processing, ranking, time sorting
qlik-bump-chart-constants.js Defaults, palettes, timing values
qlik-bump-chart-style.css All CSS
lib/
d3.v7.min.js D3.js v7
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This is an advance notice that, to enhance both your security and experience, Java 21 will be required to launch Talend Studio starting with the 2026-06 release.
This change only concerns the Talend Studio desktop application. It has no impact on the Jobs and Services you build with it, which will continue being compliant with Java 17 runtime environments (and Java 8 for Big Data Jobs).
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Modern data world is buzzing with statements like:
The reality is: Iceberg is an extremely powerful technology — but it’s also one of the most misunderstood.
And those misunderstandings matter. They lead teams to build the wrong architecture, expect warehouse-like performance overnight, or avoid Iceberg entirely because they assume it’s “only for big data companies.”
So let’s clear the air.
Here are the biggest myths about Apache Iceberg and the lakehouse — and what’s actually true.
Myth #1: Iceberg is just a file format (or “just Parquet with metadata”)
This is probably the most common misunderstanding.
Iceberg is not a storage format like Parquet or ORC. Parquet defines how data is stored inside files. Iceberg defines how those files are managed as a table.
Iceberg provides a full table abstraction including:
In other words, Iceberg isn’t “a better Parquet.” It’s the layer that makes object storage behave more like a database/data warehouse.
Iceberg is a database-like table abstraction for a data lake. That’s why it’s such a powerful building block for lakehouse architecture.
Myth #2: Iceberg replaces your data warehouse
This is probably one of the most debated topics in the lakehouse world. Some people hear “Iceberg lakehouse” and assume the conclusion is obvious: “So Iceberg replaces Snowflake / Redshift / BigQuery?”
Reality: Iceberg is increasingly replacing the warehouse as the storage layer, but not always replacing the warehouse as a query engine.
Iceberg enables organizations to store data in open object storage while still gaining database-like capabilities such as transactional updates, schema evolution, atomic commits and consistent reads.
On its own, Iceberg is “just” a table format. But the ecosystem around Iceberg has evolved rapidly. Managed lakehouse solutions like Qlik Open Lakehouse, and Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables (along with catalogs like Glue, Polaris, and others) now provide many of the features that teams historically depended on data warehouses for:
This is why the modern architecture trend is shifting toward a new model:
So Iceberg doesn’t always eliminate warehouses — but it does change their role dramatically.
Iceberg isn’t just competing with warehouses. It’s redefining them. "Iceberg is replacing the warehouse as the storage layer, while warehouses increasingly become just another compute engine.”
Myth #3: Iceberg automatically solves performance
Iceberg enables performance. It doesn’t magically deliver it.
Yes, Iceberg introduces powerful capabilities such as:
But Iceberg is not a “set it and forget it” system. Performance still depends heavily on operational practices:
This is where many teams get surprised. They adopt Iceberg expecting instant warehouse-like performance, but forget that warehouses continuously optimize tables behind the scenes.
In the Iceberg world, that optimization work must be done either:
Without this, even an Iceberg-based lakehouse can degrade over time into something that looks like the old data lake problem: too many files, slow queries, rising compute cost, and unpredictable performance.
Iceberg isn’t a magic speed button.
It’s a system that makes optimization possible and sustainable but only with operational discipline.
Myth #4: Iceberg is only for huge data volumes
This myth is surprisingly common, especially among teams who associate Iceberg with “big data” platforms.
But Iceberg is not only valuable at petabyte scale.
Even smaller organizations benefit because Iceberg solves painful operational problems that show up early:
But the biggest reason Iceberg matters early isn’t scale — it’s interoperability. And,
Interoperability = future-proofing
Iceberg lets you store your data once in object storage and query it from multiple engines: Spark, Trino, Flink, Athena, and even modern warehouses: Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift.
That means you don’t have to copy and duplicate datasets across multiple warehouses, marts, or analytics platforms just to support different teams and tools. You avoid building an architecture where every new use case requires another data copy.
This becomes even more important as you grow. Most organizations start with one analytics tool — but over time they add BI workloads, ML pipelines, real-time ingestion, governance requirements, and multiple compute engines.
If your data foundation is closed or warehouse-specific, growth often forces a painful redesign. Iceberg helps you avoid that. It’s about building a data architecture that won’t force you to rebuild everything when you grow.
Iceberg isn’t about big data. It’s about reliable tables on object storage.
And yes — cost matters
Iceberg doesn’t just reduce storage cost. It reduces the bigger hidden cost in data platforms:
duplicating the same datasets across multiple systems.
Even at smaller scale, fewer copies means less ETL, less operational overhead, and fewer expensive warehouse storage footprints.
Myth #5: Iceberg is only for CDC (streaming ingestion)
Iceberg is often discussed alongside Debezium, Kafka, Flink, and incremental ingestion pipelines. That leads many people to believe:
“Iceberg is mainly for CDC pipelines.”
CDC is a great use case — but it’s not the whole story.
Iceberg works extremely well for traditional workloads too:
Streaming ingestion is one reason Iceberg is popular, but Iceberg’s real strength is broader:
it brings transactional table management and consistent reads to the data lake.
CDC is a use case. Iceberg is the table layer.
The Real Story: What Iceberg Actually Gives You
Iceberg is best understood as a modern table system designed for object storage. It provides three major outcomes:
Atomic commits, consistent snapshots, and rollback capability.
Multi-engine access across Spark, Trino, Flink, Athena, and more.
Metadata-driven planning, partition evolution, and manageable table growth.
This is why Iceberg has become so central to lakehouse architecture. It’s not just a format. It’s not just for streaming. It’s not only for “big data.”
It’s a way to make your data lake behave like a real platform — a buffet-style platform where you can pick the tools and engines that work best for each use case.
If you’re exploring Iceberg adoption, table maintenance strategies, or lakehouse architecture patterns, feel free to reach out or connect — I’d love to compare notes.
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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.
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The patches resolving the post-upgrade ODBC-based connectors issue announced in this blog post have been released today.
Check the download page for the following releases:
For more information, see Upgrade advisory for Qlik Sense on-premise November 2024 through November 2025: ODBC-based connectors.
If you have any questions, we're happy to assist. Reply to this blog post or take your queries to our Support Chat.
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Edit February 12th, 2026: Follow-up patches have been released.
Edit January 21st, 2026: Updated the title and content to include the November 2024 release
The patches resolving the ODBC-based connectors issue post-upgrade have been released as of February 12th, 2026. Check the download page for the following releases:
- Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows November 2025 Patch 3
- Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows May 2025 Patch 13
- Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows November 2024 Patch 25
During recent testing, Qlik has identified an issue that can occur after upgrading Qlik Sense on-premise to specific releases. While the upgrade completes successfully, some environments may experience problems with ODBC-based connectors after the upgrade.
The issue is upgrade path dependent and relates to connector components that are included as part of the Qlik Sense client-managed installation.
The advisory applies to the following releases:
Recommendation: After upgrading Qlik Sense on-premise, verify your connector functionality as part of your post-upgrade checks.
The issue can typically be identified by files being missing after the upgrade. In this example, the Athena connector is not working, and the following file is missing:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Qlik\Custom Data\QvOdbcConnectorPackage\athena\lib\AthenaODBC_sb64.dll
In this example, all ODBC connectors stopped working:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Qlik\Custom Data\QvOdbcConnectorPackage\QvxLibrary.dll
With the QvxLibrary.dll missing, both existing and newly created ODBC connections will fail.
Fixes were released on February 12th, 2026.
Check the download page for the following releases:
Stay up to date with the most recent version by reviewing our Release Notes.
If your connectors have been impacted by this upgrade, rollback your ODBC connector package to the previously working version based on a pre-update backup. See How to manually upgrade or downgrade the Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows ODBC Connector Packages for details.
The workaround is intended to be temporary. Apply the fixed Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows patch for your respective version as soon as it becomes available.
If you are unable to perform a rollback, please contact Support.
If you have any questions, we're happy to assist. Reply to this blog post or take your queries to our Support Chat.
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