How Will You Use Agents, AI, and Analytics in 2026?

Welcome to 2026! The new year is a perfect time to refocus on personal development or trying new tools. 

Throughout 2025, we made a big effort to make learning, building, and scaling AI and analytics with KNIME faster, easier, and more fun. 

As a result there are more educational resources than ever before.

• Dive into micro-learning courses and get started with data-aware agentic AI or topics like AI chatbots, RAG, and governance.
• Find resources on using Databricks & KNIME for Business Intelligence or Machine Learning.
• Get tips for building data apps or learning paths for financial reporting or basic analytics, and more
• Along the way, browse free ebooks and cheatsheets.
• Get data and AI insights delivered to your inbox.

On top of that, we shipped a range of new features and functionalities in 2025 that make the learning experience with KNIME more engaging and efficient. 

Below are some highlights that users are finding especially helpful, in case you missed them: 

K-AI explains workflows (and doesn’t just build): Now you can get a clear explanation of any workflow with just a single click using K-AI. This helps you quickly understand what a workflow does, making it easier to adapt, reuse, and work confidently. Especially helpful if you’re picking up someone else’s workflow!

AI Agent audit trails: You can now use the Agent Chat Widget to get a visual audit trail of your agent’s actions. It gives you a transparent record that makes complex agent systems easier to understand, validate, and govern – or just to explain to your leadership team. You can also see in real-time how your agent is reasoning and making decisions with a timeline view. 

Smart navigation for more clarity: Features like data type icons next to columns and the workflow minimap are handy for both new learners and seasoned workflow builders to navigate complex workflows.

KNIME Business Hub SaaS: Removing the need to install, host, or maintain infrastructure, this new SaaS option helps organizations get started faster, reduce IT overhead, and scale analytics and AI across teams with a secure, dedicated cloud environment managed by KNIME.

KNIME Pro: We expanded our offering last year with the introduction of KNIME Pro for individuals. Run workflows automatically on a schedule, deploy workflows as shareable data apps or API endpoints, track workflow changes with versioning features, and more, with a KNIME Pro subscription. Start a free trial.

Generate and edit images with Gemini in KNIME: Generate new images based on text prompts, fuse several images into one, and programmatically generate consistent high-quality images or make detailed edits as a step in your workflow.

Try this 💻

• Browse KNIME workflow templates for 50+ plug and play use cases from A/B testing to inventory stockout monitoring, supply chain progress tracking, and more.

Watch this 🎥

• Learn about data lineage and how KNIME supports that in a short video explainer.
• See how to use KNIME and AI to improve your auditing process in this on-demand webinar.

Read this 📖

• Some say the data speaks for itself (but it doesn’t). Read why statistics matter, explained simply. 
• Delve into Cohen’s kappa, a key metric for evaluating classification models, and get practical guidance on how to use it.
• Get an expert’s takeaways on the use of AI in healthcare from 2025 INFORMS, the flagship gathering for the field of operations research and analytics.

• January 19-23: [L1-AP] Data Literacy with KNIME Analytics Platform: Basics – online
• February 2-6: [L2-DA] Data Analytics with KNIME Analytics Platform: Advanced – online
• February 9-13: [L3-DA] Productionizing Data Apps – online
• March 11: KNIME101 Getting Started with Mapping and Geographic Analysis in KNIME – online

New to KNIME? This interactive example uses the Iris flower dataset to show how to read in data, filter rows, and add a variable. With this ready-to-run example, you can tweak and experiment to see how small changes affect results. Try it now, no setup required. All you need is a KNIME account, then just click, play, and learn by doing. It’s a fast way to get a feel for how KNIME workflows come together and what you can do with them. Try it online.