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Over the last year, we’ve been building our AI testing frameworks and capabilities because we believe safe AI experiences cannot exist without the right humans in the loop.

When a QA team outgrows a spreadsheet, the fix is rarely more spreadsheets. It is one place where test cases, execution history, defects, and approvals live together, so a release manager does not have to reconstruct who tested what from three different tools the night before a launch. G2's Fall 2026 reports put a number on how well Katalon does that.

Over the past few decades of digital transformation, organizations have accumulated separate tools for separate jobs: RPA for UI automation, BPM for workflow management, iPaaS for API integrations, and other point solutions. These investments have delivered undeniable productivity gains. But they've also created challenges: systems that don’t talk to each other, processes that break across integrations, and IT teams that spend more time maintaining the technology rather than innovating with it.

Qlik has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software 2026 Vendor Assessment. I'll say the obvious part first: we're proud of this. Independent recognition matters, and this one reflects work happening across every team at Qlik. But analyst recognition on its own doesn't help you run your data estate.

Kong is named **a Leader** in *The Forrester Wave: API Management Software, Q3 2026*. APIs used to be about connecting systems to each other. Now they're also how AI agents connect to everything: tools, data, other agents. That shift changes what good API management looks like, and it's where we at Kong have shifted our focus. Forrester's take on where we land.

Most test automation tools are sized for one kind of team. The ones a lean QA group can adopt inside a quarter tend to buckle when a compliance officer asks who approved a change and when. The ones large enterprises standardize on often need a dedicated platform team before anyone writes a single test. Anyone who has evaluated tooling knows the feeling of reading a glowing review and realizing it was written by someone at a company nothing like theirs.

Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) has released its 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, a competition voted on by DBTA readers to recognize the best information management products, services, and solutions. This year, we’re proud to announce that Simba Intelligence was voted Best Semantic Layer Solution. Here, we discuss the award and why a semantic layer shouldn’t be an afterthought to your data and analytics strategy.

SmartBear BearQ, an agentic QA system, has won a 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Award. CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, named BearQ a winner in the Application Development and DevOps category, calling it out among the most innovative technologies shaping the IT channel this year. AI has changed how fast software gets built, but for many organizations, testing hasn’t kept pace.

The results of Info-Tech’s Head-to-Head: Business Intelligence & Analytics – Enterprise are in. In the report, Info-Tech and SoftwareReviews evaluated 360 verified enterprise end-user reviews to set benchmarks for vendor capabilities, product experience, and the full customer relationship. The study evaluates 11 areas amongst software vendors that are especially critical to making and fostering strong, long-term relationships between software providers and their customers. These include.

We are excited to share that Qlik has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics & Business Intelligence Platforms, recognized for both our Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Download the complimentary report here. Sixteen years. Our Sweet Sixteen, if you're counting. I'd argue it's less a milestone for us and more a proof point.