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The SaaS purge is here, and it’s survival of the fittest. On the latest, Joshua McKenzie (@elmosoftware) drops a harsh reality check: If your software isn’t the ultimate "system of record," your customers are already plotting to build over you. If you're just a pretty interface, you're replaceable.

With the Data Product Agent in Qlik, AI can automatically generate curated Data Products using trusted catalog definitions, datasets and metadata. It defines the specification, contract, and reasoning behind the data, while also providing action confirmation before anything is changed.

With Declarative Pipelines in Qlik, teams can use tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and integration with VS Code, to build and update Qlik Talend Cloud data integration pipelines using natural language prompts.

With the Data Quality Agent in Qlik, AI can guide data engineers through a full dataset quality assessment using natural language prompts. The agent can identify trusted catalog definitions, generate intelligent data quality validation rules, and provide transparent reasoning behind every recommendation.

AI tip: For pull requests, let your AI agent take the first pass before your team ever sees it. That's the workflow Ilia Mogilevsky, Software Engineering Manager at SmartBear, built. By packaging prompts into a skill loaded with Git history, Jira context, and CI checks, he turned a basic AI assistant into a reviewer he trusts. The skill then generates a structured report with approval-ready fixes. Accept the changes, adjust what's off, and push – review cycles shrink and deploys move faster.