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Gartner has once again named Qlik a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, a position we have held for a decade. In that time, the landscape around data integration has shifted. Hyperscalers are moving up, large vendors are tightening their stacks, and acquisitions are reshaping customer choice. For CIOs and CDOs, that consolidation changes the question. It is less about who sits where in the quadrant, and more about how much control you still have over your own data and AI strategy.

When I talk to customers about privacy and their data, the topic is data sovereignty. More and more organisations want their data to stay in a specific jurisdiction, with no transfer to, or access from, another region. A few years ago, this was something for lawyers and compliance teams to worry about. Now it is a regular item on the C-suite agenda because it touches cloud strategy, innovation projects, and how you run the business day to day.

As the lead sustainability officer at Qlik, I've had the privilege of witnessing firsthand the collaborative spirit and escalating urgency driving climate action today. Events like Climate Week NYC, the C40 World Mayors Summit, and COP30, highlight a clear reality: commitments are essential, but implementation and accountability matter more — within private and public sectors alike. And at the heart of this transition lies a powerful trio: data, collaboration, and AI.

Earlier this year at Qlik Connect, we introduced Qlik Open Lakehouse, a fully managed, Apache Iceberg–based platform designed to make it easy and cost-effective for organizations to ingest, optimize, and manage data in open lakehouse architectures. And the first version of Qlik Open Lakehouse is generally available as of Sept 2025.

In 2023, the EU introduced measures to ensure there will be focus on the gender pay gap and at the same time strengthen employee rights, especially for companies that have more than 100 employees. For businesses and specifically HR Professionals, this directive coming into force in the mid-point of 2026 creates several challenges that require both operational and strategic responses.