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Adobe Announces Anil Chakravarthy to Become President and CEO and Shantanu Narayen to Become Executive Chair on December 1, 2026

Adobe has named Anil Chakravarthy as its next President and CEO, effective December 1, 2026, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who will become Executive Chair after an 18-year tenure. The board unanimously selected Chakravarthy following a multi-month search. He joined Adobe in 2020 and currently leads Customer Experience Orchestration and worldwide field operations, previously serving as CEO of Informatica. His appointment signals a strategic focus on enterprise customer journey orchestration and agentic AI, with recent launches including CX Enterprise, GenStudio, and Brand Visibility. The transition occurs amid strong financial performance—recent quarterly revenue of $6.62 billion and triple-digit AI-first ARR growth—but also investor concerns about AI disruption, with stock down 18% in 2026 amid broader declines. David Wadhwani, president of creativity and productivity, is leaving. Additionally, Adobe launched Adobe for Slack, integrating 70+ Creative Cloud tools.

• Anil Chakravarthy becomes Adobe's President and CEO on December 1, 2026.
• Shantanu Narayen will become Executive Chair after 18 years as CEO, with the board's unanimous approval.
• Chakravarthy joined Adobe in 2020, previously served as CEO of Informatica, and leads Customer Experience Orchestration.

Salesforce's Acquisition Spree Targets Enterprise AI Layer

Salesforce is aggressively expanding beyond its CRM roots through a series of acquisitions to build an enterprise AI operating layer. Recent deals, including Informatica for $8B (2025), Fin for $3.6B (2026), and Contentful for over $3B (announced June 1, 2026), position the company to integrate data governance, workflow automation, content management, and autonomous customer service agents into its Agentforce platform. The strategy aims to create a unified infrastructure for AI agents, with competitors like Adobe, Microsoft, ServiceNow, and Oracle pursuing similar coordination layers. However, integration complexity remains a critical challenge, and industry experts question whether Salesforce can make its expanding ecosystem operationally cohesive. Governance, interoperability (e.g., MCP support), and the ability to reduce fragmentation will determine success in the enterprise AI era.

• Salesforce acquired Informatica for $8 billion in 2025, strengthening data integration and governance.
• Salesforce announced the $3.6 billion acquisition of Fin, a provider of autonomous customer service agents.
• Salesforce announced the acquisition of Contentful for over $3 billion on June 1, 2026, adding a composable CMS layer.

Qlik Expands MCP Availability Across AWS and Databricks Marketplaces

Qlik announced expanded availability of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in AWS Marketplace and Databricks Marketplace. The move lets customers connect AI assistants and agents to Qlik's governed data, analytics context, lineage, calculations, and transformation capabilities within the environments they already use. Qlik MCP exposes Qlik at the engine, tool, and agent levels, enabling natural-language querying and faster data pipeline development without duplicating analytics logic. Databricks customers can purchase Qlik solutions through the Databricks Marketplace using Universal Commits. The launch builds on the general availability of Qlik's agentic analytics experience and MCP server earlier in 2026 and extends Qlik's reach into AWS AI environments including Amazon Bedrock. Josh Good, VP of Corporate Strategy at Qlik, said customers want agent frameworks to work with trusted business data and existing metrics.

• Qlik announced expanded availability of its MCP server in AWS Marketplace and Databricks Marketplace.
• Qlik MCP is live in AWS Marketplace, including integration with Amazon Bedrock.
• Qlik MCP is now available in Databricks Marketplace, with Databricks customers able to use Universal Commits to purchase Qlik solutions.

Qlik Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software

Qlik has been named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software, reinforcing its position in the data intelligence market.

Qlik rebrands DEI&B initiative to 'Access and Belonging' and updates product capability names

The Qlik About page has been updated: the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging section is now 'Access and Belonging' with a new URL. Product capabilities 'Data Foundation for AI' and 'Agentic AI' have been renamed to 'Agentic for Data Engineering' and 'Agentic Analytics' respectively. The AI/ML Pricing link has been removed from navigation. Featured content now highlights the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms report instead of a previous webinar.