Recognition underscores Qlik’s cloud-agnostic innovation, real-time data movement, and AI-driven data engineering that power trusted, governed, and analytics-ready pipelines.
Qlik has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Integration Software Platforms, 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53001625, October 2025) — a validation of its innovation in unifying real-time data movement, governance, and AI assistance across modern enterprise environments.
According to Qlik, this recognition highlights how enterprises are evolving toward real-time ingestion and replication, governed self-service access, and productized data with visible quality and lineage, while maintaining cloud and hybrid flexibility.
“Data leaders want two outcomes at once — make trusted data available faster, and keep architectures open and flexible,” said Drew Clarke, EVP, Product & Technology at Qlik. “Qlik brings real-time movement, productized trust, and AI assistance into the data engineering flow, enabling teams to connect sources, raise quality, and put governed data to work in analytics and AI without slowing the business.”
“Enterprises want trusted data faster — without losing flexibility. That’s where Qlik delivers.”
– Drew Clarke, EVP, Product & Technology, Qlik
IDC’s report describes Qlik as a cloud-agnostic data integration platform that combines real-time change data capture and ELT/ETL with catalog-led governance, including lineage, discovery, and policy-based access. It also cites Qlik’s embedded agentic and generative AI features, and support for Apache Iceberg, which enables modernization of open lakehouse architectures across client-managed, hybrid, and SaaS models.
“As organizations modernize, the ability to integrate, manage, and operationalize data across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures in real time is becoming a key differentiator,” said Stewart Bond, Vice President of Data Intelligence and Integration Software Research at IDC. “Qlik’s leadership reflects its continued investment in trusted, governed, and AI-ready data pipelines.”
Enterprises such as MillerKnoll are already realizing the impact. “Qlik lets our teams move data continuously and make it usable with policy we can see,” said Colton Porter, Manager, Advanced Planning Systems. “We connect sources across clouds, modernize to Iceberg, and use AI assistance to document, validate, and improve pipelines — speeding analytics and AI without sacrificing governance.”
Qlik’s recognition by IDC cements its position as a trusted enabler for enterprises seeking to operationalize data for AI and analytics, while staying open, flexible, and future-ready.
