Qlik, a data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI company, today announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software 2026 Vendor Assessment. The recognition reflects Qlik's continued investment in helping enterprises measure data trust, trace data across systems, and carry governed context into analytics and AI.
Qlik named a Leader in 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software
Qlik Talend Trust Score and Qlik Trust Score for AI measure data fitness using metadata-driven signals
More than 275 native metadata bridges capture field-level lineage across databases and BI tools
Qlik supports cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployment without forcing customers into one data stack
Data products include ownership, quality, lineage, and access controls for analytics and AI
Qlik serves 75% of the Fortune 500 with data integration, quality, analytics, and AI capabilities
AI can now produce answers, recommend actions, and trigger workflows faster than most organizations can verify the data behind them. That raises a basic question: can teams show where the data came from, what changed, and whether it is suitable for the decision at hand? Qlik connects those signals. It measures whether data may be fit for a specific use, traces how it changes across systems, supports the correction of quality issues, and carries governed data and business meaning into analytics and approved AI tools. Customers can do this across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid systems without moving everything to a single provider.
Qlik Trust Score and Qlik Trust Score for AI combine metadata-driven quality, timeliness, and usage signals into a measure that can be tracked over time. Data stewards can correct, standardize, match, and deduplicate data before it reaches reports, applications, or AI.
"AI does not make unreliable data more reliable. It makes the consequences harder to contain," said Matt Hayes, General Manager, Data Business Unit, Qlik. "Before a dashboard, model, or agent is trusted, teams need to know where its data came from, how it changed, and how fit it is for that use. Qlik makes that evidence visible and keeps it connected as data moves into analytics and AI workloads, without forcing customers into one data stack."
More than 275 native metadata bridges capture field-level lineage and transformation logic across databases, SQL, stored procedures, dbt, Spark, semantic layers, and BI tools. Teams can assess the effect of a change before it reaches a report, data product, or AI application. Data products can include ownership, quality, lineage, and access controls. Teams can build Qlik analytics applications from those products, make governed KPI and metric definitions available to people and AI agents, and extend controlled access through MCP and OData APIs.
Qlik supports cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployment across major data environments. Customers can modernize in stages and preserve choice as their requirements change. Qlik delivers these capabilities through Qlik Talend Cloud, Talend Data Catalog, and Qlik Cloud Analytics.
"Data intelligence is moving from documenting data to helping organizations decide what can be used, by whom, and for what," said Stewart Bond, Vice President, Data Intelligence and Integration Software, IDC. "Qlik connects data quality, lineage, governance, and business meaning across data products, analytics, and AI. That is useful for enterprises that need consistent control across mixed technology environments."
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
About Qlik
Qlik helps teams get more out of AI with data they can rely on and control. It delivers trusted data products, a powerful analytics engine, and AI agents. This helps teams reduce risk, keep operating costs in check, and scale AI responsibly as needs evolve. Used by 75% of the Fortune 500, Qlik supports customers worldwide. Qlik works with the systems and partners customers already use, so teams can stay flexible without lock-in.
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