Agentic AI Just Rewrote the Data Engineer's Job Description. Here's What IT Leaders Need to Know.

Gartner predicts that 70% of today's data engineering tasks will be fully automated by 2030. I put that number to Tim Garrod, Qlik's Head of Product Management for data integration and quality, on a recent Qlik Insider session, and his answer is the one every CIO, CDO, and VP of IT should sit with: automation doesn't make the data engineer obsolete, it makes the good ones ten times more valuable. AI amplifies skilled judgment. It doesn't replace it.

New MCP tools for Declarative Pipelines

Qlik's MCP server just got three new lookup tools built for data engineering. They connect directly to your Qlik Cloud tenant, so coding agents can pull the real project values a pipeline needs instead of working from an empty template, find spaces and data connections by name, and browse the tables and views available on a connection, just by asking in natural language. That means easier declarative pipeline creation, with real tenant context built right into your prompt for faster, more accurate iteration.

Direct to Lakehouse, No Detour: Announcing the Integrate.io Databricks Connector

Write pipeline output directly into Databricks tables, with staging and load handled automatically, so lakehouse teams skip the intermediate warehouse hop and get data where it belongs, without maintaining a manual copy step. Databricks has become the default lakehouse for teams that need one place to store, process, and query data at scale, from raw event logs to curated tables used for BI and machine learning.

[AgentSpot Showcase Series] Winny - GTM Intelligence Agent

Meet Winny, a GTM Intelligence agent built with AgentSpot and ThoughtSpot. See how teams can get faster answers to questions about conversion and pipeline velocity by simply asking questions in AgentSpot or Slack, with verified data pulled directly from ThoughtSpot. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is multiplayer AI for your business. Anyone can build, share, and collaborate with AI agents connected to your company’s data, context, and tools.

Bring Your Full Intercom History Into Your Stack Using Intercom Connector

Sync contacts, conversations, tickets, and eight other Intercom streams into your warehouse, CRM, or AI pipeline, fully transformed, on a schedule you control, with no engineering required. Intercom is where support and product teams live for customer conversations. It's the system of record for tickets, live chat threads, help center articles, and the segments and tags teams use to organize customers by plan, behavior, or lifecycle stage.

How to Operationalize AI Pilots: Roche's Agentic Analytics

If there's one thing that stuck with me from Yannick Misteli's session at the Agentic Analytics Playbook event in London, it's this: most AI pilots don't stall because of technology or budget. They stall because nobody answered the "day after" questions. I had the opportunity to sit down with Yannick Mistelli, Head of Engineering at Roche, the global pharma company with 100,000+ employees and heavy regulation across 25+ countries.

Centerprise AI: Add New Banking Systems Without Custom Integration Projects

Your next banking initiative shouldn't wait on another custom integration. Keep your core banking system and connect everything around it with Centerprise AI. Describe the pipeline you need, and it generates the connections, mappings, transformations, and data quality checks across APIs, databases, legacy systems, and more.