Qlik just added automation-management tools to the Qlik MCP Server, plus open-source Agentic Skills that teach coding agents to use them right. In the new Data Voyagers episode, I put Claude Code to work building, then editing, a Qlik Automation that reloads every Table Recipe in a Shared Space. Full walkthrough, real Qlik Cloud tenant, tested at every step. If you manage automations by hand today, it's worth seeing what agentic tooling actually looks like up close.

The date is July 24th, 2026. A Friday. Sarah (yes, her again), VP of Operations at a mid-size fintech in Frankfurt, adjusts her presentation remote and takes a slow breath before the final slide. The numbers are good. Better than projected, actually. The AI customer service platform went live in March. By May, forty agents had been replaced. Projected annual savings: 3.2 million euros. Customer complaints are up slightly, but the Q4 report does not include customer satisfacti

Sarah gets to the office at 8:47 on a Monday morning and opens her laptop to a beautiful report. It was generated overnight by the AI platform her company spent four months selecting and three months implementing. Fourteen pages. Clean charts. Confidence intervals. A ranked list of 23 customer accounts flagged as "high churn probability" in the next 90 days, each one color-coded by revenue impact. She emails the customer success team before her coffee finishes brewing. "These

Thirty thousand years ago, deep inside a cave in southern France, someone pressed a hand against a rock wall, put pigment in their mouth, and blew. No audience. No gallery. No theory. No plan to monetize it later. They did it anyway. And then someone else did it somewhere else. And then someone else, in Australia, in Indonesia, in South Africa, in Brazil. Different caves, different pigments, different hands, same impulse, across tens of thousands of years and every continent

A confirmed working guide for Qlik Cloud developers on connecting the Qlik Cloud MCP server to Gemini CLI and Antigravity 2.0 using OAuth - including step-by-step config, troubleshooting, and a quick note on Google's transition away from Gemini CLI.

Picture the scene. An almost empty room. A detective across a table. A subject who looks entirely human, speaks entirely human, and may or may not be human at all. The detective doesn't ask "can you think?" He asks something stranger. He describes a tortoise lying upside down in the desert sun, legs paddling uselessly at the air. Then he waits. Not for an answer. For a flicker. That scene is from Blade Runner, and the test is called the Voigt-Kampff. It was designed to detect

Author: Igor Alcantara I want you to picture the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Stanley Kubrick gives us one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history. One of our ancestors, possibly a Homo Habilis, stands at the dawn of cognition. Surrounded by the bones of the past, they lift one from a carcass and, with the abstract thought that only advanced primates possess, imagine its potential. Our great-great-g(n)reat-grandparent sees beyond what’s in fro

Author: Igor Alcantara Welcome, recruit, to the new world of Agentic AI! This is probably the most discussed topic in AI as we begin our journey in 2025. In this article, I'm pulling back the curtain on a technological leap that’s redefined artificial intelligence and it has the potential of causing great impact in business around the globe. There is already a lot of buzz around this and, with that, a lot of confusion. This will be one of the hottest topics in 2025, so why no

In this insightful session, a recording inspired by the presentation delivered at the Qlik AI Reality Tour in Atlanta on September 2024, Igor Alcantara, Director of Data Science and Education at IPC Global and a Qlik MVP, dives deep into the realities and myths surrounding AI. AI’s promises and possibilities often get clouded by hype, and here, Igor separates fact from fiction, breaking down what AI truly is and what it isn’t. This video covers: What AI Really Is Types of AI

Author: Igor Alcantara When I ask people what kind of knowledge you associate me with, I always get different responses. Those who do not know me well enough might say is Qlik or Data Science, Machine Learning, or maybe AI in general. The ones who know me better could mention Science or Podcast, maybe even Star Wars. However, the ones who really know me would definitely say: The Beatles. Yes, Mark Costa, I will find a way to reference the Beatles to this. The Beatles revoluti

As someone on the autistic spectrum, I've always felt a certain kinship with technology and artificial intelligence. There's something about the structured, logical nature of machines and algorithms that just clicks with the way my brain is wired. I know my initials (Alcantara, Igor) are AI, but that does not explain at all how I feel about this. I find myself wondering - is there a connection between the unique thought processes of those on the autism spectrum and our appare

Author: Igor Alcantara It's Friday, so let's have some fun and once again push the boundaries of AI. While waiting for a Qlik Answers knowledge base to index a few documents, I decided to test ChatGPT's ability to separate signal from noise and recognize patterns. I thought Waldo (or Wally in the UK, Brazil, and many other countries), the famous character from the puzzle book series created by British illustrator Martin Handford in 1987, would be a great challenge. I also wan