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Digital wallets started as simple payment tools. Today, they do much more. They support P2P payments, merchant transactions, loyalty programs, identity services, transit use cases and embedded financial services. Reports from McKinsey, Deloitte and Worldpay show strong growth in digital wallet usage. Wallets now power a large share of global e-commerce and POS transactions. Adoption is rising in both developed and emerging markets. Many organisations can launch a wallet fast. Scaling it is harder.

Bridge the disconnect between design and development. The new Figma plugin for Sauce Visual automates baseline creation, enables shift-left testing, and guarantees visual consistency with your approved Figma designs.

Companies used to be human institutions supported by digital tools. They are becoming computational systems supported by humans.

Send warehouse-powered audiences to every ad platform with a single click.

In today’s data-driven world, seamless data integration is crucial to ensuring the smooth operation of modern systems. With the growing complexity of distributed data platforms, businesses and developers are seeking efficient ways to move, process, and transform data. Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for real-time data streaming, and Kafka Connect plays a key role in facilitating the integration of Kafka with various data sources and sinks.

Enterprises have invested decades of development effort into SQL Server stored procedures. These procedures contain critical business logic—validation rules, complex calculations, transaction handling, reporting queries—that applications need to access. But stored procedures weren't designed for modern API-driven architectures.

When you’re building realtime systems, blind spots slow you down. The new dashboard gives developers self-serve visibility into everything happening inside their apps, from high-level usage to individual connections, channels and messages. No setup. No external tools. Just open your browser and observe your data in motion.

Why “standalone AI” falls short AI works best when embedded in a process Guardrails are not a limitation—they’re an enabler Process-driven AI in action How leaders should be thinking about AI now Artificial intelligence is no longer optional in state and local government—it’s essential for meeting public expectations amid staffing shortages and budget constraints. AI is showing up across agencies and programs.

Somehow, another year has passed and we’re back again to deliver our Trends Outlook for 2026. As Qlik’s first milestone of the year, it’s a busy but exciting time that hugely energizes me after the holiday break. We weren’t short of inspiration. The world has given us a far from a blank canvas on which to illustrate our Trends and in particular, conversations around AI have firmly evolved from future-gazing to wrestling with the formula for harnessing its power.

In one of our posts, Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server technical breakdown, we described the new capabilities added to Kong AI Gateway to support MCP (Model Context Protocol). The post focused exclusively on consuming MCP server and MCP tools through Kong MCP Gateway. Now, it's time to check how an AI agent can leverage the AI and MCP infrastructure exposed and protected by Kong AI/MCP Gateway.