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With the relative newness of the iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) vertical, no single platform has emerged as the de facto choice for enterprises. This can present a challenge if you're trying to choose among the large pool of solutions available – especially when certain solutions labeled "iPaaS" serve very different use-cases.

“The data integration landscape is currently undergoing a seismic shift. We are moving away from an era of human-led data pipelines and entering the age of Agentic Data Management.

At Qlik Connect, one of the big messages we’re putting in front of customers is this: you’re closer to agentic AI than you think. I believe that because a lot of our customers already have more of the foundation in place than they may realize. If you have been working to improve data quality, strengthen governance, connect data across the business, and move analytics beyond reporting into real decision support, you are already building the conditions agentic AI needs to deliver value.

Picture this: it's the Thursday before a major release. The VP of Engineering asks a simple question in the planning meeting: "Are we confident we can ship Friday?" The QA lead opens four dashboards, pulls an export from the test management tool, cross-references it with execution results from a separate environment, reconciles defect counts in the bug tracker, and 40 minutes later delivers a hand-built status summary that is already slightly out of date. The team isn't slow. The team isn't incompetent.

let ‘s be real, the financial side of healthcare is a mess. For patients to schedule appointments and insurers to disburse the final reimbursement, the financial process must work seamlessly. When these systems work on a disconnected workflow, delays are bound to happen. To top it all, the sheer volume of patient data doesn't make the job easier. Its not about just losing money but also about losing patients’ valued time. It is important to have a centralised system.

Kong Agent Gateway Is Here — And It Completes the AI Data Path You had a request going to a model, a response coming back, and a gateway in between to enforce policy. With the right solutions, this becomes manageable pretty quickly.. That world is over. Today's agentic architectures look nothing like that. Agents are delegating tasks to other agents via A2A. These other agents are producing and consuming event streams.

The shift from single-model AI features to multi-agent pipelines is no longer a future concern — it's running in production today. MCP has become the de facto protocol for tool-calling, agent-to-agent (A2A) communication patterns are proliferating, and enterprise teams are wiring together complex AI workflows that span multiple providers, services, and agents. Every hop in that data path is an opportunity for something to go wrong. The challenge is governance.

Tableau Next launched as a cloud-only platform on Salesforce Hyperforce. Every generative AI capability on Tableau’s roadmap runs through Salesforce Data Cloud. But for ISVs serving healthcare, financial services, or any customer operating under regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, or DORA, this locks them out completely.