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AI-powered analytics is everywhere right now. But the payoff? Not so much. Two patterns show up again and again. The first is an “AI everything” backlog that expands faster than teams can deliver. The second is an insights bottleneck that still forces the business to wait in line for basic answers while analysts drown in ad hoc requests.

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.

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.

“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.

We are in the middle of the fastest acceleration in software development that the industry has ever seen. Thanks to highly capable models from technology leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI, we have entered the era of vibe coding—a world where developers describe what they want in natural language and get working software in return.

Hybrid AI systems need secure ways to manage user identities across cloud and on-premises environments. Identity passthrough ensures that AI systems operate under the permissions of the actual user, not a shared service account. This approach reduces risks tied to credential theft, improves auditability, and supports compliance with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA. Key methods for identity passthrough include: Quick Takeaway: For organizations prioritizing simplicity, PHS is a good starting point.

Most AI tools for business data sound authoritative even when they are wrong. The problem is not the model. It is the architecture behind it.

Software testing has a fragmentation problem. Most teams run test generation in one tool, execution in another, defect tracking in a third, and pull together release decisions from whatever they can stitch together at the last minute. Every handoff between tools is a gap where context gets lost, work gets duplicated, and quality suffers. Katalon True Platform closes those gaps.

Before your team invests in any AI testing capability, there is one question worth asking plainly: does this platform get smarter the more you use it, or does it start from scratch every single time? The term "intelligent test automation" is used generously across the industry right now. Nearly every testing tool has added AI features: auto-generated test cases, smart locator healing, suggested assertions, anomaly detection. But intelligence, in any meaningful sense, requires memory.