TLDR: Qlik has been positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Integration Software Platforms, 2025 Vendor Assessment. This recognition highlights Qlik’s robust capabilities in real-time data integration, comprehensive data governance, and embedded AI assistance within data engineering workflows, catering to the evolving needs of enterprises for trusted and AI-ready data pipelines.
Qlik, a prominent global provider in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), has proudly announced its designation as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Integration Software Platforms, 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53001625, October 2025). This significant recognition underscores Qlik’s commitment to addressing the dynamic requirements of modern data environments.
The IDC MarketScape’s evaluation reflects a pivotal shift in enterprise priorities towards real-time data ingestion and replication, alongside the demand for governed self-service access and the productization of data with transparent quality and lineage. Qlik’s platform is noted for its ability to support practical AI assistance, seamlessly integrated into data engineering workflows, while maintaining crucial cloud-agnosticism and hybrid flexibility.
Drew Clarke, EVP, Product & Technology at Qlik, emphasized the dual objectives of data leaders, stating, “Data leaders want two outcomes at once, make trusted data available faster, and keep architectures open and flexible. Qlik brings real-time movement, productized trust, and AI assistance into the data engineering flow, so teams connect sources, raise quality, and put governed data to work in analytics and AI without slowing the business.”
IDC’s vendor profile specifically highlights Qlik as a cloud-agnostic data integration platform that effectively unifies real-time change data capture and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) or ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. This is complemented by catalog-led governance features, including discovery, lineage, and policy-based access. The assessment also commends Qlik’s embedded agentic and generative assistance within engineering workflows and its support for Apache Iceberg, which facilitates the modernization of open lakehouse architectures across client-managed, hybrid, and SaaS environments. These capabilities are crucial in enabling enterprises to rapidly productize trusted data and directly connect it to their analytics and AI initiatives.
Stewart Bond, Vice President of Data Intelligence and Integration Software Research at IDC, further elaborated on the market’s direction: “As organizations modernize their data environments, the ability to integrate, manage, and operationalize data across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures in real time is becoming a key differentiator. Qlik’s position as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape reflects its continued investment in data integration capabilities that support trusted, governed, and AI-ready data pipelines for a wide range of enterprise use cases.”
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The broader IDC study underscores the imperative of AI readiness, asserting that “AI readiness is no longer optional — data integration platforms must deliver trustworthy, governed, multimodal dataflows to support enterprise strategy transformation and fuel autonomous intelligence in an agentic AI future.” The data integration software platform market itself is experiencing robust growth, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2%, signaling the increasing inseparability of data integration and AI strategies.
