Nexla Recognized in 2025 Gartner Hype Cycles for Cloud and AI

We’re proud to announce that Nexla has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in two of Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle reports: the Hype Cycle for Cloud Platform Services and the Hype Cycle for AI in Software Engineering. A sample vendor is recognized to clearly represent the category and expected capabilities. This recognition affirms Nexla’s role as a trusted platform for delivering governed, intelligent, and scalable data integration and AI across the enterprise.

Unlocking the Future of Data Fabric

Hype Cycle for Cloud Platform Services, 2025
Category: Data Fabric

Gartner defines data fabric as a design for attaining flexible, reusable, and augmented data pipelines by leveraging metadata, ML, and semantic automation. Nexla’s inclusion as a Sample Vendor places it among industry leaders like Google and Microsoft, highlighting Nexla’s ability to:

• Orchestrate intelligent pipelines across batch, streaming, and API-based systems
  
• Automate integration and transformation through active metadata and no-code interfaces
  
• Enable data product creation and sharing which are critical for the shift to data mesh operating models
  
• Provide observability and governance by design
  

“Use data integration platforms that take active metadata-based insights from the data fabric to stitch data pipelines through a combination of all major data integration modes…” — Gartner, 2025

By abstracting complexity and unifying data across silos, Nexla helps enterprises transform raw data into shareable, trusted, AI-ready data assets. This lays the groundwork for reliable, enterprise-grade AI.

Enabling Scalable Data Engineering for AI

Hype Cycle for AI in Software Engineering, 2025
Category: Data Engineering

In this report, Gartner defines data engineering as the practice of building and operationalizing pipelines to deliver trusted, contextualized data that meets SLAs for analytics and AI. Nexla is recognized alongside companies like dbt Labs, IBM, and Oracle. This is a testament to its comprehensive approach to data integration and modern data engineering.

Nexla’s unified platform delivers:

• End-to-end pipeline automation for structured and unstructured data
  
• Built-in governance and observability to ensure data quality and SLAs
  
• Active metadata-driven self-service access for both engineers and less technical domain experts
  
• Federated operating models that align centralized platform teams with business data owners
  

“Organizations need DataOps practices and tools to streamline and scale data engineering delivery.” — Gartner, 2025

From hybrid data environments to enterprise AI workloads, Nexla enables the agile delivery of AI-ready data without the burden of legacy integration complexity. This provides the robust foundation needed to move AI initiatives from experimentation to production at scale, with speed, and without compromise.

Why This Matters

These recognitions from Gartner reinforce Nexla’s importance in solving today’s most pressing data challenges:

• Data Variety: Nexla’s metadata intelligence, powered by AI, enables less technical engineers to connect, transform, and deliver the full variety of structured and unstructured data fast, without coding.
  
• Taking AI to Production: Nexla’s built-in agentic AI framework enables teams to quickly access any data as context and leverage the latest in agentic RAG to deliver enterprise-grade AI applications.
  

Nexla’s inclusion in both hype cycles is a testament to our accelerating market momentum, proven customer impact, and the depth of innovation behind our platform. We’re proud to help leading enterprises leverage the full power of AI.

Learn More

Nexla is a leader in AI-powered integration whose mission is to make data ready-to-use for everyone. The Nexla Integration Platform is the first integration platform powered by AI and built to handle today’s data variety. With Nexla you can integrate any data, create AI-ready data products, and deliver enterprise-grade GenAI without coding, up to 10x faster than the alternatives.

Trusted to deliver mission-critical data by leading companies including DoorDash, LinkedIn, Johnson & Johnson, and LiveRamp, Nexla is headquartered in San Mateo, California. It has been recognized in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools and top-rated by customers on Gartner Peer Insights (rated 4.9/5).

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Source: Gartner, “Hype Cycle for Cloud Platform Services, 2025,” Ehtisham Zaidi, Robert Thanaraj, June 17, 2025.

Source: Gartner, “Hype Cycle for AI in Software Engineering, 2025,” Adrian Leow, Haritha Khandabattu, June 17, 2025.