Qlik Named 2026 Databricks ISV Data Integration Partner of the Year for Advancing Enterprise AI Readiness
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The recognition underscores Qlik’s leadership in enabling organizations to accelerate AI and analytics initiatives through trusted, real-time data integration on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.The recognition underscores Qlik’s leadership in enabling organizations to accelerate AI and analytics initiatives through trusted, real-time data integration on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
Qlik has been named the 2026 Databricks ISV Data Integration Partner of the Year. Presented at the annual Data + AI Summit, the award recognizes partners that have demonstrated innovation and customer impact through solutions built on the Databricks platform.
This recognition reflects Qlik’s continued investment in delivering data integration capabilities that help organizations move, transform, and activate data for analytics and AI use cases. By working with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, Qlik enables customers to streamline data pipelines, improve data readiness, and support scalable analytics and AI initiatives.
“As organizations accelerate their AI ambitions, the quality, accessibility and timeliness of data have become critical determinants of success. This recognition from Databricks validates Qlik’s commitment to helping enterprises build trusted, analytics-ready data foundations that power meaningful business outcomes.”
- Matt Hayes, General Manager, Data Business Unit, Qlik
“As the race to productionize AI accelerates, customers consistently ask us how they can better manage their data in order to build AI apps and agents that make a real impact on their business,” said Stephen Orban, SVP, Product Ecosystem & Partnerships at Databricks. “As a key Databricks partner, Qlik helps our joint customers do exactly that. We’re proud to recognize them as 2026 Databricks ISV Data Integration Partner of the Year.”
Qlik’s approach to data integration focuses on delivering real-time data movement, transformation, and governance to support modern data architectures. With over 250 high-quality connectors, Qlik seamlessly integrates and transforms enterprise-wide data into the Databricks platform. This allows users across the organization to leverage natural language to surface rich, context-aware insights natively within Genie, Databricks’ AI agent that lets any employee chat with their data and get trusted answers instantly. When combined with the Databricks platform, these capabilities help organizations:
· Improve access to trusted, analytics-ready data
· Reduce latency in data pipelines supporting AI and machine learning
· Simplify the management of complex, distributed data environments
“Organizations are looking to reduce the complexity of preparing data for analytics and AI,” said Matt Hayes, General Manager, Data Business Unit, Qlik. “This recognition from Databricks reflects the work our teams have done to deliver data integration capabilities that support those needs and help customers accelerate time to insight.”
“Qlik has consistently demonstrated its ability to help organizations prepare and activate data for AI-driven innovation. Through our partnership, customers can streamline data pipelines, improve data readiness and accelerate the development of intelligent applications that deliver measurable business value.”
- Stephen Orban, SVP, Product Ecosystem & Partnerships, Databricks
The Databricks Partner Awards recognize organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to helping customers build, scale, and govern data and AI solutions using the Databricks platform.
