Qlik has introduced its new agentic experience, providing a single, conversational interface allowing users across the enterprise to interact naturally with data, using specialised AI agents to quickly uncover insights, drive faster decisions, and boost productivity – bringing new simplicity to complex data-driven workflows.
The agentic experience builds directly on the Qlik engine, expanding the ability of both users and agents to intuitively access these relationships, surface insights, and take action across diverse data.
The agentic experience will enable users to access insights and take action simply by engaging in natural language dialogue. Operating seamlessly across Qlik Cloud – including data integration, data quality, and analytics solutions – he experience removes friction, providing fast, intuitive visibility for smarter decisions and higher productivity.
At Qlik Connect, the company demonstrated how specialised AI agents will support users within this new experience:
- Introduced last year for unstructured data, Qlik Answers will bring together structured and unstructured data in a single natural language experience, delivering trusted answers and enabling automated actions.
- Revealed for the first time at the event, a discovery agent will proactively identify critical risks and opportunities across applications and datasets, presenting insights and recommended actions through a personalised feed.
- Demonstrated as a concept, a pipeline agent will allow users to describe desired business outcomes conversationally, prompting automated recommendations and design of necessary data pipelines.
“This new agentic experience is about removing the distance between data, decisions, and outcomes,” says Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik. “People want a seamless, conversational way to engage with their data – one that fits naturally into their work and delivers clear, trusted answers in context. We’ve built this experience to reflect how decisions actually get made in a business.”
“There’s a growing demand for AI that does more than generate responses—enterprises want systems that can reason across complex data, explain their outputs, and drive action,” says Megha Kumar, research vice-president: worldwide analytics & AI at IDC. “Qlik Answers combines structured and unstructured data with automation in a governed, explainable framework. It’s a strong example of how agentic AI can support real enterprise decision-making.”
The Qlik agentic experience is scheduled to begin rolling out this winter in South Africa and globally, starting with private previews.