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A watershed year brought continued rapid growth, major engineering advances, and partner awards from Google, AWS, Snowflake and Databricks.

Third Consecutive Quarter as Leader in Two Categories February 23, 2021. Austin, TX and Tallinn, Estonia. Testlio, the originator of networked testing, today announced that it has been twice recognized as a High Performer within the Winter 2021 G2 Grid ®. The two categories are the best Crowdsourced Testing Software and the best Software Testing Tools.

Once again, Yellowfin has been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. This is the eighth time we have been recognized and the second year we are in the Visionary Quadrant. As per our knowledge, Yellowfin is also the only Australian vendor to be included.

The new 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics report is out, and you can find it here! Gartner’s brand, alongside its breadth of research by its analysts, ensures that it’s a key reference document for clients in buying situations. No wonder, then, that every year the industry anxiously awaits where dots will fall on that famous 2x2 matrix. Therefore, I’m delighted to announce that Qlik is a Leader, again, for the 11th year in a row.

Snowflake continued expanding its platform capabilities at the start of the new year, adding updates to data sharing, Snowsight, and data pipelines that help customers and partners access, mobilize, and share their data for better data-driven outcomes. Here’s a brief rundown of some of the exciting announcements from January 2021.

The partnership will simplify end-to-end integration, improving operational efficiency and increasing revenue for our customers.

At Appian, we are driven to make it faster and easier for you to build applications that help you run your business more efficiently. We obsess over finding new ways to empower you to get more value from your systems and data to maximize your resources and improve your business results. That’s why we are thrilled to be designated a Gartner Peer Insights “Customers’ Choice” for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAP) for 2021.

Today, we have really exciting news to share with you all. The Enterprise version of our Kong Gateway is now generally available, and it’s like nothing we’ve ever released before. One standout component of version 2.3 is that it now has a “free” operating mode so that anyone can start off using the Enterprise gateway product – something previously reserved for only our paying customers.

We’ve added 11 Improvements to Databox Charts. Now, you’ll be able to visualize and explore more of your data right from within Databox.

Today, we’re excited to share that Kong has closed a $100M Series D financing led by Tiger Global with participation from new investor Goldman Sachs as well as existing investors Index Ventures, CRV, Andreessen Horowitz and GGV Capital. This raise triples our valuation to $1.4 billion and will allow us to scale our go-to-market operations even faster.