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Last year, we introduced Freight clusters, a new, cost-effective Confluent Cloud cluster type—purpose-built for high-throughput, latency-insensitive workloads—such as observability data, batch pipelines, and AI/ML data ingestion. Since then we've been working with early access customers to take their workloads to production, and in doing so, have helped them achieve 90% lower infrastructure costs, while maintaining the reliability we all know and expect from Confluent Cloud.

We’re excited to announce the Create Embeddings Action, the newest member of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink Actions suite and the first step in our journey toward no-code AI workflows. This no-code feature enables you to generate vector embeddings in real time, from any model, to any vector database, across any cloud platform. It’s the easiest way to create a live semantic layer for your AI workflows—ensuring fresher, more accurate data for better-performing systems.

We’re thrilled to announce that insightsoftware has been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software for the second year in a row! This continued recognition highlights our unwavering commitment to helping CFOs and their teams tackle budgeting and planning challenges with confidence.

Top-rated EPM platform enhances insightsoftware’s planning, consolidation, and reporting solutions with modern, agile, and user-centric architecture.

On behalf of Qlik, I’m excited to share some thoughts about our acquisition of Upsolver and how it opens up new possibilities for our customers, helping them achieve their goals in ways previously out of reach. First thing to say is how we’ve been deeply impressed by Ori and the Upsolver team’s relentless focus on innovation and solving customer’s problems. We met over a year ago when our respective teams were looking at ways our technology could jointly work together.

The development of SmartBear API Hub, powered by Swagger, represents a significant advancement in how teams manage, test, and optimize API workflows. Our journey to create a cohesive, unified suite – API Hub – required integrating standalone products into a single, robust ecosystem, establishing a seamless user experience that bridges workflows across each product.