Dubai, November 13, 2025 – Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, data quality,analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced it has been named a Leader inthe IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Integration Software Platforms, 2025 VendorAssessment (doc #US53001625, October 2025). Qlik believes IDC’s assessmentreflects how enterprises are shifting to real-time ingestion and replication, governed self-service access, and productized data with visible quality and lineage, supported bypractical AI assistance embedded directly in data engineering workflows. Theseadvances are being achieved while organizations remain cloud-agnostic and preservehybrid flexibility.“Data leaders want two outcomes at once, make trusted data available faster, and keeparchitectures open and flexible,” said Drew Clarke, EVP, Product & Technology, Qlik.“Qlik brings real-time movement, productized trust, and AI assistance into the dataengineering flow, so teams connect sources, raise quality, and put governed data towork in analytics and AI without slowing the business.”IDC’s vendor profile describes Qlik as a cloud-agnostic data integration platform thatunifies real-time change data capture and ELT or ETL with catalog-led governanceincluding discovery, lineage, and policy-based access. IDC also highlights agentic andgenerative assistance embedded in engineering workflows and support for ApacheIceberg to modernize open lakehouse architectures across client-managed, hybrid, andSaaS environments. In IDC’s view, these capabilities help enterprises productize trusteddata quickly and connect it directly to analytics and AI.“As organizations modernize their data environments, the ability to integrate, manage,and operationalize data across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures in real time isbecoming a key differentiator,” said Stewart Bond, Vice President of Data Intelligenceand Integration Software Research at IDC. “Qlik’s position as a Leader in the IDCMarketScape reflects its continued investment in data integration capabilities thatsupport trusted, governed, and AI-ready data pipelines for a wide range of enterpriseuse cases.”Qlik’s approach meets buyers where they are, from client-managed to fully SaaSdeployments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Modernization to an openlakehouse is supported through Apache Iceberg ingestion and optimization,compaction, and hybrid patterns, with roadmap investments that expand in-flighttransformations and cross-cloud operability. AI enablement includes generative andagentic assistance inside pipelines for prompt-to-SQL, API contract design,documentation, and context-aware rule suggestions, as well as operational support forRAG pipelines, vectorization of structured and unstructured data, and integrations withleading LLMs and vector databases.“Qlik lets our teams move data continuously and make it usable with policy we can see,”said Colton Porter, Manager, Advanced Planning Systems at MillerKnoll. “Engineersand analysts work from the same products with clear lineage and quality. We connectsources across clouds, modernize to Iceberg, and use AI assistance inside the workflowto document, validate, and improve pipelines. It is a practical way to speed analyticsand AI without trading away governance.”To see how Qlik helps enterprises operationalize governed data for analytics and AI,please view the full IDC MarketScape assessment.About IDC MarketScape:IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of thecompetitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The researchutilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitativecriteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within agiven market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product andservice offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market successfactors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework alsoprovides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths andweaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.About Qlik Media ContactQlik converts complex data landscapes into actionable insights, drivingstrategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, ourportfolio provides advanced, enterprise-grade AI/ML, data integration, andanalytics. Our AI/ML tools, both practical and scalable, lead to betterdecisions, faster. We excel in data integration and governance, offeringcomprehensive solutions that work with diverse data sources. Intuitiveanalytics from Qlik uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to addresscomplex challenges and seize new opportunities. As strategic partners,our platform-agnostic technology and expertise make our customers morecompetitive
Qlik Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape:Worldwide Data Integration Software Platforms.
