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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.

New: Turn conversations with your AI Analyst into a polished report

Getting an answer from your data has never been faster. Turning that answer into something you can share still takes hours. Genie, our AI Analyst, made it possible for anyone to answer questions about performance. Ask “Why did conversions drop last month?” or “Which marketing channels drove the most pipeline?” and you’ll get a clear answer in seconds, with the charts to back it up. But some answers are worth more than a reply in a chat.

Flamegraphs Find It. Replay Proves It.

I made an API endpoint 13 times faster. Then I realized my first verification only checked the status, headers, and response schema. I had not checked the totals. I had made the bug faster. That is the problem with giving an AI coding agent one kind of evidence. A CPU profile can show where the application is slow, but not whether an optimization preserves behavior. A traffic replay can prove that behavior stayed stable, but not explain why the code burns CPU.

Agentic Data Management: What It Is and Which Tools Deliver It

Data engineering teams often spend a substantial portion of their time maintaining pipelines instead of building new data products, particularly as environments become more complex. Many organizations still struggle with stale, inconsistent, or low-quality data, leading to delayed or less reliable decision-making. Traditional data management tools alert you to problems but leave the fixing to human hands.

9 Best Agentic AI Data Quality Tools in 2026

Bad data doesn't announce itself. It flows silently through your data pipeline, lands in your dashboards, and feeds your AI models until someone downstream notices the numbers don't add up. By then, the damage is done: a flawed forecast, a miscalibrated model, a compliance gap you didn't see coming. For data engineers and analytics managers, this is a significant operational risk.

Schema Drift: Why It Breaks Pipelines and How AI Agents Fix It Automatically

Your data pipeline worked fine yesterday. Today, a source system added three new columns to a critical table, and now your entire analytics workflow is broken. This scenario, known as schema drift, is one of the most frustrating challenges data teams face when managing their data pipeline infrastructure. The good news? AI agents can now detect and resolve these issues automatically, eliminating the 3 AM fire drills that have plagued data engineers for years.

Agentic Data Integration, Explained: From Static Pipelines to Autonomous Data Flows

Your data team got paged at 3 AM. Again. A schema change in your CRM broke the downstream pipeline, analytics dashboards are showing stale data, and the executive team needs accurate numbers for tomorrow's board meeting. This scenario plays out daily at organizations worldwide. It explains why data engineers spend 44% of their time on pipeline maintenance rather than building new capabilities. Agentic data integration represents a fundamental shift from reactive firefighting to proactive autonomy.

How to Cut Your AI Agent Costs in Half

Every AI agent starts every session with zero memory. No context, no history, just a blank slate that has to rediscover its environment from scratch, and that costs you real time and money. In this episode of Inside the Stack, Jase Lindgren, Principal P4 User Advocate at Perforce, shows a simple fix: instead of re-prompting your agent every time, capture what it learns in a markdown file, then go one step further and turn that into a custom script. The result, tested across 15 runs: lower cost, faster execution, and better accuracy at catching real issues.