PQ Business Intelligence, the specialist information delivery division of PQ Africa, says Actuate Corporation - which it represents exclusively in South Africa - has been cited by IDC as the world`s fastest growing end-user query and reporting (EUQR) solutions vendor.
IDC`s annual Information Access Tools Market Forecast and Analysis report shows Actuate increased its market share in the EUQR category by 81%, with revenue growth of more than 128% from last year. According to IDC`s report, traditional business intelligence and reporting companies Business Objects and Crystal Decisions grew 45,9% and 4,7%, respectively.
"The challenges of enabling the broad workforce with information have put new demands on organisations to provide scalable information delivery architectures," says PQBI managing executive Gavin Lipshitz. "Actuate has grown significantly faster than others in providing robust Web-based information delivery software, with one of the best cost of ownership models in the industry."
IDC forecasts the Web-based portion of the EUQR category to grow at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64,2% through to 2005, versus the overall EUQR category with CAGR of 29,9%.
"Information delivery is paramount for Web-based, end user query/reporting software. This growth is driven by companies that seek to provide customers, partners and employees with quick and easy access to operational data from CRM systems, supply chain applications and other data sources," says senior IDC analyst Dan Vesset.
"While ad hoc query and reporting and multidimensional analysis is performed by a finite number of users, operational reporting has the potential to reach a broad internal and external audience of an organisation."
"Information delivery is rapidly taking centre stage in middle-to-large enterprise (MLE) companies in South Africa," says Lipshitz.
"It is essential for employees, customers, and partners to access realtime operational information inside and beyond the firewall. Actuate is a clear leader in delivering operational reporting applications that deliver a rapid ROI and modest TCO."
EUQR is the largest and fastest growing category of the business intelligence market with 46,4 % share, followed by OLAP with 33%. IDC forecasts the EUQR market to grow to $6,2 billion by 2005.
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PQ Business Intelligence - a division of PQ Africa - is the centre for customer-oriented applications (COA) in the PQ Africa group, with offices throughout the country. In addition to its long-standing partnership with the world`s leading business intelligence and information delivery vendors, Cognos and Actuate, PQBI has also been appointed a Remedy master reseller and Verity International Partner, incorporating the group`s IT service management and CRM solutions and providing an end-to-end COA platform from the back-office to the customer-facing agent.
With over 85 specialist consultants, PQBI has the largest focused COA team in the country. It is also the largest Ascential Datastage software partner in South Africa, and the exclusive system integrator for Whitelight Systems, offering its clients the most comprehensive set of data warehousing and analytic application skills and products available for all their enterprise information requirements.
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PQ Africa was formed as a result of the merger of Persetel Holdings and Q Data. Comparex Holdings Limited has a 50% minus one share interest in PQ Africa. The black empowerment group NITAC (the National IT Acquisition Consortium), led by Real Africa Holdings Limited, holds a controlling interest of 50% plus one share in PQ Africa.
PQ Africa is SA`s leading provider of competitive, innovative and flexible business solutions based on Information and Communications Technology. These comprehensive business solutions include systems integration, consulting, package implementation, software development, outsourcing, hardware, software, peripherals, voice, video and data communication systems, customer relationship management solutions and networking equipment and services. Internet solutions include the development and deployment of electronic commerce and electronic data interchange-based solutions and digital authentication.
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