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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.

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.

From Intent to Data Product: Pipelines, Agents & MCP

The challenge for most data teams isn’t a lack of ideas—it’s the time it takes to turn those ideas into something usable. In this session, Steffen Bischoff, Chief Architect Data at Qlik, follows a single dataset from a core system through its entire journey to becoming a governed data product. You’ll see pipelines created by describing intent instead of writing code, versioned in Git, then curated, quality-checked, and documented with the help of specialized agents. From there, the data product is made available to the AI tool of your choice through the Qlik MCP Server.

The Times They Are A-Changin' - Just Not on SAP's Terms

Bob Dylan wrote those words in 1964 about a world in flux - where the old rules were being quietly rewritten, and the people who hadn't noticed yet were about to find out the hard way. He wasn't thinking about enterprise data architecture. But if you've been following SAP's moves on data access, extraction, and platform strategy over the past two years, those words might be landing a little closer to home than usual.

Saugata Saha on Data, AI, and What's Next for Qlik

Qlik’s new CEO discusses why he joined the company, the opportunity he sees at the intersection of data and AI, and what customers and partners can expect from his leadership. Qlik CEO Saugata Saha recently sat down with Jessica Dubois, Senior Director of Global Tech Partners, for his first external conversation since joining the company.

Saugata Saha on Data, AI, and What's Next for Qlik

Qlik CEO Saugata Saha sits down with Jessica DuBois, Senior Director of Global Tech Partners, for his first external conversation since joining the company. Saugata discusses what drew him to Qlik, the opportunity he sees at the intersection of data and AI, and why bringing increasingly capable AI together with trusted, governed data remains one of the most important challenges facing organizations today.

Qlik Declarative Pipelines with AI and VS Code

Managing your data pipelines shouldn't mean leaving the tools you already work in. In this video, Qlik Solution Architect, Joe Easley, shows how Qlik's declarative pipelines let you build and manage your integration ecosystem right alongside your own LLM and IDE — no switching platforms, no extra UI to learn. The benefit: faster iteration, fewer handoffs, and pipelines that live where your code already does.

Qlik Answers and the Automate Agent - Using Inputs - part 4

In this video, Mike Tarallo shows you a simple Qlik Automate workflow with defined inputs, then uses the Automate Agent in Qlik Answers to pass those inputs directly into the automation. This demonstrates how users can move beyond simply asking questions and begin taking action based on their data—all from a conversational experience. You’ll see how Qlik Answers and Qlik Automate work together to turn natural-language requests into real, automated workflows with minimal setup.