Nucleus Research Releases 2026 Data Integration Technology Value Matrix
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Leaders in the data integration market include Boomi, Matillion, Oracle, Qlik, and Salesforce (Informatica). MIAMI, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past decade, data integration grew as a proxy of the data warehouse and lakehouse. Organizations stood up a warehouse or lakehouse, and the ingestion, transformation, and orchestration spend followed. In 2026, data integration has become its own demand center. Development activity is booming, and AI-assisted coding is pushing out more applications and more agents than data teams can wire up. Every new application and AI agent leaves varied data integration requirements in its wake, and integration demand is rising sharply across the enterprise. Customer demands have shifted accordingly. Now, integration is much less an optimized engine or tool, but rather a layer that serves everyone who builds pipelines, including analysts, engineers, developers, and AI agents. Customers increasingly favor managed data integration services and self-service stacks that combine ingestion and transformation tooling, and they are demanding consolidated solutions in the form of platforms that address the data layer from source to product. "Data integration is no longer growing as a proxy of the warehouse," said Alexander Wurm, Principal Analyst at Nucleus Research. "Every new application and AI agent leaves integration requirements in its...
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Leaders in this year's Value Matrix are Boomi, Matillion, Oracle, Qlik, and Salesforce (Informatica).
