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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.

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’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.

Financial services institutions need the ability to analyze and act on massive volumes of data from diverse sources in order to monitor, model, and manage risk across the enterprise. They need a comprehensive data and analytics platform to model risk exposures on-demand. Cloudera is that platform. I am pleased to announce that Cloudera was just named the Risk Data Repository and Data Management Product of the Year in the Risk Markets Technology Awards 2021.

The wait is nearly over, and soon we’ll all be privy to this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms. Qlik is proud of its 15-year history and ranking as a leader for the last decade in this signature research, and we are enthusiastic about sharing a complimentary copy of the full report when it publishes at this location: https://www.qlik.com/us/gartner-magic-quadrant-2021

Senior executive Tom Chmielewski joins Testlio in London January 18, 2021. London, United Kingdom. Testlio, the originator of networked testing, today announced an important new hire. Tom Chmielewski is now Executive Director, Strategic Development. He will lead Testlio’s sales expansion in Europe while also forging new global alliances.