Qlik, a data integration and analytics cloud platform announced yesterday that it has upgraded its AI assistant, Insight Advisor to provide customers with even more robust and targeted cloud analytics solutions. With Insight Advisor, users can expect search-based visual analysis (NLP-driven), conversational analytics (chat), and associative insights. These augmented analytics aim to expose hidden data relationships, assist with creation and data preparation, and integrate advanced calculations for customers. "Analytics users want to do more with their data, but often struggle with where to look or what next steps to take. Insight Advisor gives these users a complete and powerful AI assistant, built directly into Qlik Sense, to help guide them along every step of their data exploration and analysis journey," said James Fisher, chief product officer at Qlik. "Qlik Sense users are only a click or question away from the assistance needed to derive more insights and value from data. And, with every interaction, Insight Advisor learns alongside them, creating a virtuous cycle where they become smarter together, increasing users' data literacy and data usage."

A new function, K-Means Clustering, allows data points to be grouped together based on similarity and is highly useful for customer segmentation, fraud detection and many other use cases. In addition, Insight Advisor will now auto-generate cluster and correlation charts in search-based visual analysis; Qlik plans to introduce new additional advanced calculations in the future.