Data analytics gets an agentic AI twist at Qlik Connect – News

“Garbage in, garbage out” has become the slogan of data analytics companies in the artificial intelligence era.

Companies may be eager to integrate AI into their business, but they will hit roadblocks when their data isn’t ready. QlikTech International AB, a company specializing in cloud and data analytics, aims to be the bridge between customer data and AI-generated insights with its announcements at Qlik Connect.

“They had a lot of great demos,” said Bob Laliberte, analyst for theCUBE Research. “They were able to go through and highlight some of the ways that organizations were leveraging that data, how quickly they could refine the data, create new models, create new data insights to be able to help drive the business, to help automate the workflows.”

Laliberte spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier at Qlik Connect, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed product announcements from the keynote and Qlik’s path in the enterprise AI world. (* Disclosure below.)

Powering AI and data analytics at scale

Eighty-nine percent of companies now have an AI strategy, according to Qlik, with 26 percent deploying AI at scale. The company looks to increase the latter number by launching a fully managed, open lakehouse within their Talend Cloud — an intriguing proposition, according to Furrier.

“This actually addresses those precision and trust questions around making the broader data sets available because you have access to the lakehouse, you can get that performance, the cost efficiency because you can do more with half the spend,” he said.

Qlik is also tapping into agentic AI with updates to Qlik Answers, its generative AI solution. Answers now enables a feedback loop with the human user and can take autonomous actions. Laliberte predicts the challenge will not be implementing the technology, but getting employees on board.

“Technology tends to be the easier part, he said. “The harder part can be the cultural and process changes. Organizations are really having to ensure that they’re making that cultural and process change so that they can … accelerate that time to comfort. I think some of the things that have been helpful in the AI revolution is the fact that so much of the generative AI started with the consumer side.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Qlik Connect:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Qlik Connect. Neither QlikTech International AB, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or News.)

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