18 June 2024 Qlik Announces Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers, Eliminating Barriers to Enterprise AI Adoption Share this message New solutions like Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers address crucial needs to generate value from all data types. Enhancing AI trust and explainability, as well as accelerating AI adoption across companies by leveraging existing investments. Qlik, a global pioneer in data integration, analytics, and AI, hosts its main annual event, Qlik Connect. Qlik launched Talend Cloud and Answers. These innovative solutions will speed enterprise AI adoption by integrating AI-augmented data and generating AI-generated responses from unstructured data. They demonstrate Qlik’s commitment to AI-powered end-to-end solutions. Qlik Talend Cloud provides extensive data integration with robust quality and governance features. This is essential for maintaining data integrity in AI operations. Built on the Qlik Cloud Infrastructure, it ensures seamless integration for Qlik Analytics users. Qlik Answers facilitates the efficient use of unstructured data, fitting smoothly into workflows familiar to Qlik users. “With the launch of Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers, Qlik is driving AI’s business value,” said Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik. “Our innovations enable us to meet market demand for comprehensive, technology-agnostic AI solutions. Our strategic investments, extensive R&D, and deep partnerships provide a seamless, scalable path for enterprises to adopt AI, backed by Qlik’s strong customer success record.” Qlik Talend Cloud: Comprehensive Platform: Evolving from Qlik’s 2023 Talend acquisition. This platform introduces new capabilities like data products for faster, quality-assured data curation. This creates a dynamic data marketplace to enhance domain-specific data delivery. Modern Data Engineering: Offering tools with a range of powerful transformation capabilities from no-code to pro-code options. This ensures trusted AI-ready data for complex projects. Unified Packaging and Pricing: Ensures affordability with Qlik Talend Trust Score for AI, assessing data health and setting a new AI readiness standard. Enhanced Connectivity: Incorporates Stitch’s SaaS data connectivity, efficiently handling diverse data sources. Qlik Answers: Generative AI-Powered Knowledge Assistant: Transforms access to and utilization of unstructured data, delivering reliable, personalized answers from private, curated sources such as knowledge libraries and document repositories. Seamless Integration: Fully plug-and-play and self-service, integrating into existing systems to enable real-time, informed decision-making. Trust and Transparency: Provides full explainability of answers, ensuring users understand the origin of insights. Offers best-in-class security and governance for a complete, easy-to-deploy solution. “As long-standing customers, we’ve consistently relied on Qlik to enhance our data-driven business outcomes,” said Susan Dean, Business Technology Director at Takeuchi. “We are excited to see how Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers can further support our AI journey, offering new levels of data integration and unstructured data insight crucial for staying competitive.” “In the age of AI, the most valuable commodities are computing power and data. Every country and company should have its own ‘sovereign AI.’ To achieve this, AI infrastructure must be built and data must be refined and codified. As a member of Qlik’s AI Council, this is precisely what we are helping companies achieve.” – said Nina Schick, advisor to world leaders, academics, and policymakers on AI best practices. 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Call us Mail us 14 January 2026 Create page in Data Integration activity center Qlik Cloud introduces a new Create page in the Data Integration activity center, offering a unified starting point for building new assets in Qlik Talend Cloud. This update aligns with Qlik Cloud Analytics, providing a consistent experience across Qlik Cloud products for efficient task initiation. New Release Qlik 13 January 2026 Enhanced accuracy for knowledge bases Enhanced accuracy for knowledge bases in Qlik Cloud improves answer quality and better parses tables in PDF, Word, and PowerPoint documents. Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government. New Release Qlik 13 January 2026 Word and PowerPoint reports in Qlik Cloud Qlik Cloud now supports Word and PowerPoint reports via new Microsoft 365 add-ins. Developers can create analytics-based documents and presentations from Qlik Sense apps, with outputs in .doc, .PDF, .ppt, or .PDF formats. These add-ins align with the existing Excel add-in. Updated deployment guidance and templates are available. New Release Qlik
14 January 2026 Create page in Data Integration activity center Qlik Cloud introduces a new Create page in the Data Integration activity center, offering a unified starting point for building new assets in Qlik Talend Cloud. This update aligns with Qlik Cloud Analytics, providing a consistent experience across Qlik Cloud products for efficient task initiation. New Release Qlik
13 January 2026 Enhanced accuracy for knowledge bases Enhanced accuracy for knowledge bases in Qlik Cloud improves answer quality and better parses tables in PDF, Word, and PowerPoint documents. Not supported in Qlik Cloud Government. New Release Qlik
13 January 2026 Word and PowerPoint reports in Qlik Cloud Qlik Cloud now supports Word and PowerPoint reports via new Microsoft 365 add-ins. Developers can create analytics-based documents and presentations from Qlik Sense apps, with outputs in .doc, .PDF, .ppt, or .PDF formats. These add-ins align with the existing Excel add-in. Updated deployment guidance and templates are available. New Release Qlik