Your Qlik app is telling a story. The question is: are you reading it in time?
Data shifts happen constantly. Revenue patterns change, customer churn creeps upward, and supply chain metrics drift from their baselines. Often, these anomalies go unnoticed until they show up in a monthly report, by which point the damage is already done. For BI professionals and data analysts, this delay between a data event and a human response is one of the most costly gaps in any organisation’s intelligence framework.
Qlik’s Discovery Agent is built specifically to close it.
Let’s explore this solution in more detail.
What is Qlik Discovery Agent?
The Qlik Discovery Agent is an AI-driven anomaly and outlier detection agent that monitors your Qlik apps continuously, identifies meaningful shifts in your data, and delivers prioritised insights directly to your team.
Rather than waiting for an analyst to notice something unusual on a dashboard, Discovery Agent pushes critical changes to you. Automatically and in real time.
It runs on the Qlik Analytics Engine, which means it evaluates complex, high-dimensional data without requiring heavy SQL scripting or custom query design. The result is enterprise-scale monitoring that is both statistically rigorous and practically manageable.
Features and Benefits of Qlik’s Discovery Agent
- Automated anomaly detection: Discovery Agent replaces the need for manual KPI checks. It scans continuously across your Qlik apps, detecting shifts that would otherwise be missed between reporting cycles.
- Prioritised, contextual insights: Rather than flooding teams with alerts, the agent evaluates full data context and surfaces only what truly matters. This reduces alert fatigue and improves response quality.
- Scalable across applications: It can monitor multiple Qlik apps simultaneously, without inflating compute costs or requiring additional infrastructure investment.
- Early detection across key business areas, including:
- Performance and operations: spikes in cancellations, drops in service levels, or shifts in backlog
- Finance and revenue: unexpected swings in margin, cash flow deviations, or pricing outliers
- Customer and product: changes in engagement, new churn baselines, or anomalies in product flows
- Data quality and governance: gaps in source data, shifts in value distributions, or inconsistent metrics
- Improved data trust: By automatically flagging missing or inconsistent data before it informs a decision, Discovery Agent ensures that the insights your teams act on are built on solid ground.
Stay Ahead of Your Data
Traditional dashboards are effective for reporting what has happened. However, they rely on someone looking at the right metric, at the right time, with the right context to spot a problem. That dependency creates a gap. And in fast-moving business environments, gaps are expensive.
The Qlik Discovery Agent removes that dependency. It monitors constantly, thinks contextually, and only surfaces what requires attention.
If your organisation is ready to move from reactive monitoring to real-time, AI-powered intelligence, B2IT can help. As a certified Qlik Partner in South Africa, B2IT has a proven track record of implementing data and analytics solutions that deliver measurable business value, with zero failed implementations since 2010.
Book your Discovery Agent demo with B2IT today and see exactly how your organisation can start acting on data changes before they become costly problems.
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