From Qlik to Quick: How to Transform Qlik Dashboard Analysis With Hidden Insights AI

Making Data Analysis Instant with Natural Language AI for Qlik

The gap between having data and getting actionable insights has always been a challenge in business intelligence. Users face dashboards filled with information but struggle to answer critical questions without exporting to Excel, waiting on developers, or missing key trends hidden in their filtered data.

But with technological advancements like natural language AI agents, users can access insights and patterns they might otherwise miss.

Common BI Challenges

Traditional BI dashboards excel at displaying data, but they don’t always answer the questions users actually need to be solved. Here are some of the most common BI challenges users struggle with.

The Excel Export Problem

Users pull data from dashboards into spreadsheets for analysis, creating siloed work, governance issues, and data integrity challenges that undermine your carefully-built BI environment.

The Developer Bottleneck

Building comparative analysis in Qlik requires significant developer time for each specific use case. Every user request creates delays, and flexibility suffers. More critically, this constant stream of ad-hoc analysis requests pulls BI teams away from strategic initiatives, preventing them from focusing on high-value projects that drive real business transformation.

The Hidden Opportunity Gap

When you filter data to focus on specific products, regions, or time periods, you narrow your view. What trends are you missing? What seasonality patterns sit just outside your current selection? These hidden insights remain invisible with traditional analysis.

Where to Start As Technology Evolves

How can users overcome everyday BI challenges? New technology has been sprouting up constantly, but it’s hard to know where to begin. And where AI is concerned, it’s crucial not to introduce AI for AI’s sake. Instead, evaluate which tool is best-suited to solving problems, answering key questions, and delivering insights that aren’t easy to come by with traditional BI software.

To achieve these goals, developers often build their own custom solution. While this addresses exact needs for each customer, it creates a new set of challenges. For example, a custom-built solution can be inflexible as users’ needs evolve. When users want or need to make changes to improve their competitive analysis, they have no choice but to go back to developers, worsening developer bottlenecks.

How Vizlib Hidden Insights AI Can Help

Vizlib Hidden Insights AI from insightsoftware is an AI-powered extension for Qlik that gives end users the ability to talk directly to their dashboard data using natural language. No training required, no complex setup – just conversation-style questions that deliver instant analysis.

Unlike cloud-only AI solutions, Hidden Insights AI works on both Qlik Cloud and Qlik on-premise environments. For developers, customization options provide control over AI behavior through custom prompts, allowing you to tailor the tool to specific business needs and terminology.

The extension processes data live, requires zero learning curve, and works entirely in natural language, making sophisticated analysis accessible to everyone, regardless of technical skill.

Hidden Insights AI is included in Vizlib Collaboration, Vizlib Library, and Vizlib Self-Service packages. Simply download the latest version, install it on your environment, and add the Vizlib Hidden Insights AI extension to your dashboard.

Three Powerful Modes for Qlik Data Analysis

The extension operates in three distinct modes, each addressing different analytical needs:

1. Summary Mode: Get instant overviews of any chart or dataset. Instead of manually reviewing hundreds of rows, ask for a summary and receive key findings in seconds, including anomalies, trends, and actionable recommendations.

2. Compare Mode: Build on-demand comparative analysis without developer intervention. Compare year-over-year performance, analyze different charts side by side, and spot differences instantly, all through natural language requests.

3. Hidden Insights Mode: This is where the magic happens. The AI surfaces data you’re missing due to applied filters. If you’re analyzing your top two products, Hidden Insights shows what the other eight products are doing and reveals opportunities you’d otherwise overlook.

How Hidden Insights Compares to Other Qlik AI Tools

Hidden Insights AI and Qlik Answers serve complementary but different purposes:

• Qlik Answers: Designed for unstructured data like PDFs, terms and conditions, and documentation, Qlik Answers cannot analyze the actual numerical data within your dashboards, charts, or visualizations.
• Hidden Insights AI: Built for structured dashboard data where charts and visualizations already exist, delivering faster insights and deeper analysis.

Both tools work side by side, solving different analytical challenges.

The Future: AI-Driven Self-Service Analytics

Hidden Insights represents the first step toward a larger vision: AI-driven self-service analytics for Qlik. Imagine a canvas where you can drag and drop visualizations while simultaneously asking questions through a chat interface, building dashboards collaboratively through conversation, then saving and sharing those insights with your team.

Ready to transform how your team analyzes Qlik dashboards? Watch our webinar to see Hidden Insights AI in action, including live demonstrations of summary analysis, comparative datasets, and hidden insight discovery.

Note: Exercise caution when using generative AI for calculations. Recent research indicates that GenAI models may produce inaccurate results when performing mathematical computations. Always verify calculations independently before applying them to business decisions.

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