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Qlik Debuts Agentic Experience; MCP Opens Qlik to Third-Party Assistants

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Both in private preview, Qlik Answers enhancement unifies analytics and documents with explainable, engine-backed reasoning, and MCP exposes Qlik to third-party assistants for trusted intelligence at scale

Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced the private preview of its new agentic experience in Qlik Cloud®, delivered through Qlik Answers® as the unified conversational interface, bringing together structured data analytics, unstructured documents, and the reasoning power of large language models in a single, governed experience.

With specialized agents communicating and executing tasks, full transparency and trust with citations, and fast, explainable analytical calculations powered by the Qlik analytics engine, decision makers can get the most complete and relevant answers to drive the best actions and results. The experience is designed to handle complex, multi-step questions by pairing AI reasoning with engine-backed analytics and by drawing on trusted data products.

In this private preview, organizations can:

  • Get to the right answer faster. Agents interact with one another and engage the right Qlik capabilities, helping users quickly get complete and relevant answers.
  • Blend numbers and narrative in one place. When a request spans data and documents, Qlik Answers can bring together analytical insight generated by the Qlik engine with context from documents and its own knowledge into rich narrative and visual responses.
  • Trust what you see. Citations for answers from documents, explanations of reasoning and logic for analytical insights, and governed calculations deliver the highest levels of trust and confidence.
  • Work where you are. An always-on side panel in Qlik Cloud, with awareness of where you are and what you are doing, delivers help and assistance that keeps momentum.

Qlik also outlined plans for its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server general availability in early 2026. MCP is another entry point into the agentic experience that allows customers and partners to access Qlik capabilities from third-party assistants. MCP exposes Qlik at the engine, tool, and agent levels so assistants can generate insights from the Qlik analytics engine and tap trusted data products with governance and human oversight on a Qlik-hosted tenant.

“Boards want three things: measurable return on investment, faster decisions, and confidence they are staying within risk and compliance,” said Brendan Grady, General Manager, Analytics, Qlik. “The new agentic experience in Qlik Cloud, delivered through Qlik Answers, gives teams a single governed conversation that reaches analytics and vetted knowledge, with citations and controls. It takes you from a natural-language question to a chart and an explanation, with a clear next step in your cloud. Fewer handoffs and copies. Decisions you can defend.”

This reflects Qlik’s broader agentic approach across the portfolio, from AI-assisted pipeline design and quality and lineage checks to RAG pipelines that connect ingestion to decision to action. These innovations help enterprises deploy trusted intelligence at scale. MCP is slated for general availability in early 2026, and Qlik is collecting customer interest now.

“Like most enterprises, we are under pressure to move faster without adding risk,” said Martin Gries, Head of Data & Analytics, H. & J. Brüggen KG. “The hard part isn’t ideas; it is stitching numbers from BI with terms buried in contracts and policies, then turning that into action. A single, governed experience with sources and clear assumptions is the right direction.”

The new Qlik agentic capabilities are available today in private preview for Qlik Cloud capacity-model customers via opt-in. General availability is targeted for early 2026 with a phased, regional rollout aligned to underlying service readiness. There are no price changes planned with this release. Customers can also transact through AWS Marketplace.

Customers can see these new capabilities at AWS re:Invent in the Qlik booth #1727. To be one of the first to try the agentic and MCP experience, sign up to learn more.

About Qlik

Qlik converts complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio provides advanced, enterprise-grade AI/ML, data integration, and analytics. Our AI/ML tools, both practical and scalable, lead to better decisions, faster. We excel in data integration and governance, offering comprehensive solutions that work with diverse data sources. Intuitive analytics from Qlik uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities. As strategic partners, our platform-agnostic technology and expertise make our customers more competitive.

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