Qlik Connect 2025 Highlights: Next-Gen Data Analytics and AI Solutions

As a proud Qlik partner, we had the privilege of attending Qlik Connect 2025 in person and gaining valuable insights into the future of data analytics and artificial intelligence. Two groundbreaking innovations stood out in particular: the Qlik Open Lakehouse - a powerful solution for real-time data processing built on Apache Iceberg - and the new Agentic AI Experience in Qlik Answers, which takes AI-powered decision-making to the next level.

The Open Lakehouse enables organizations to efficiently integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data and leverage it for BI, machine learning, and streaming analytics - the latter becoming available in the second half of 2025. Thanks to a fully managed Iceberg architecture, automated optimization, and “Bring Your Own Compute” (BYOC) capabilities, Qlik offers an open, interoperable platform with up to five times faster query performance and up to 50% lower infrastructure costs.

The Agentic AI Experience also offers a compelling glimpse into the future of analytics work: through an intuitive chat interface, users can create AI agents that directly access the Qlik engine, analyze data, and deliver contextual recommendations in real time. This solution unifies structured and unstructured data and will enter Private Preview in summer 2025.

In addition, Qlik is demonstrating how modern data platforms can offer more than just insights with its enhancements to Qlik Cloud Analytics: the new Discovery Agent automatically detects critical risks and opportunities across applications and provides personalized feeds. Also newly introduced are multivariate time series forecasts (within Qlik Predict, formerly AutoML), which model complex dependencies - such as pricing, seasonality, and campaign activity - to deliver even more accurate predictions. This is further enhanced by features like Write Table, which allows users to write and sync data directly within analytics tables (including SAP, Salesforce, and Snowflake integration), and Table Recipe, a visual, code-free environment for business users to prepare data.

We thank Qlik for an excellently organized event that compellingly demonstrated how the platform is bridging the gap between traditional analytics and seamless, AI-driven decision automation. We look forward to bringing these new capabilities to our customers soon.