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New MCP tools for Declarative Pipelines

Qlik's MCP server just got three new lookup tools built for data engineering. They connect directly to your Qlik Cloud tenant, so coding agents can pull the real project values a pipeline needs instead of working from an empty template, find spaces and data connections by name, and browse the tables and views available on a connection, just by asking in natural language. That means easier declarative pipeline creation, with real tenant context built right into your prompt for faster, more accurate iteration.

Agentic AI Just Rewrote the Data Engineer's Job Description. Here's What IT Leaders Need to Know.

Gartner predicts that 70% of today's data engineering tasks will be fully automated by 2030. I put that number to Tim Garrod, Qlik's Head of Product Management for data integration and quality, on a recent Qlik Insider session, and his answer is the one every CIO, CDO, and VP of IT should sit with: automation doesn't make the data engineer obsolete, it makes the good ones ten times more valuable. AI amplifies skilled judgment. It doesn't replace it.

What's Driving the Great AI Re-Architecture?

As enterprise AI scales, traditional data architectures are reaching their limit. Workloads are becoming more distributed, data movement is accelerating, and tech leaders face growing pressure to justify AI spend while delivering real business impact. Chief Technology Officer Sergio Gago breaks down key findings from Cloudera’s latest global survey of enterprise architects, data architects, and cloud leaders.

How Sales & RevOps Leaders Use Spotter for Natural Language Data Analysis

How does our sales and revenue operation teams use Spotter, our agentic analyst, to instantly access and analyze their data using natural language? In this video, you'll see how Spotter makes data interrogation easy and reliable. Learn how to: Explore Data Sets: Quickly understand what data you have access to, where it is pulling from, and get immediate examples of what you can ask. Get Instant Answers: Type a natural language question (like "What's the booked ACV this quarter by region?") and instantly receive easy-to-read charts and deep analyses.

How ThoughtSpot's SVP of Revenue Strategy Saves Sellers 2 Hours of Research Per Account

Our own sales team was losing up to 2 hours per account just switching between tools. Here's how they got that time back. In this video, our SVP of Revenue Strategy walks through how her team built a single sales hub with AgentSpot, pulling data from ThoughtSpot, Salesforce, Gong, and external intent signals into one workflow. What you'll see: What's hot in your territory: the accounts showing real buying intent, based on search trends and ICP fit.

10 Best Client Dashboard Software for Agencies & Digital Marketers in 2026

Let’s be real—clients don’t care about how much effort you put in. They only care about results. If you’re not delivering clear, real-time performance insights with zero fluff, you risk losing their trust—and their business. That’s why a good client dashboard software is a necessity. It can take the guesswork out of reporting, and give your clients a crystal-clear view of their campaigns without endless emails or confusing spreadsheets.

Direct to Lakehouse, No Detour: Announcing the Integrate.io Databricks Connector

Write pipeline output directly into Databricks tables, with staging and load handled automatically, so lakehouse teams skip the intermediate warehouse hop and get data where it belongs, without maintaining a manual copy step. Databricks has become the default lakehouse for teams that need one place to store, process, and query data at scale, from raw event logs to curated tables used for BI and machine learning.

Bring Your Full Intercom History Into Your Stack Using Intercom Connector

Sync contacts, conversations, tickets, and eight other Intercom streams into your warehouse, CRM, or AI pipeline, fully transformed, on a schedule you control, with no engineering required. Intercom is where support and product teams live for customer conversations. It's the system of record for tickets, live chat threads, help center articles, and the segments and tags teams use to organize customers by plan, behavior, or lifecycle stage.