QlikView South Africa, the local representative and distributor for QlikTech, increased its user base by 200% during 2005. QlikTech, based in Sweden, is the developer of QlikView business intelligence and data analytics software.
QlikTech is the fastest growing BI software company in the world. It has achieved 90% compound growth every year for the last three years, but locally, QlikView South Africa has surpassed even this impressive figure. QlikTech was rated highly in Gartner`s Magic Quadrant for BI platforms, for 1Q06. The company scored points for strong vision, innovation as well as geographic strategy.
The local QlikView team has also seen a 30% growth in staff members. MD Davide Hanan attributes QlikView`s success to three key factors: cost, simplicity and speed of implementation.
QlikView^1s technology was developed with the end-user in mind, rather than the IT department. It does not make use of OLAP and is able to analyse massive amounts of data at unprecedented speed by loading data directly into memory. By taking full advantage of 64-bit technology`s memory capacity, QlikView can provide summary level metrics and record level detail on the same architecture.
"QlikView^1s acceptance in the market is reflected by the company`s success," says Hanan. "What is even more exciting is that this was achieved with no advertising." Hanan says the company`s success rate in converting prospects into customers is very high. Current customers in South Africa include the Omnia Group, the Oceana Group, Sun International, British American Tobacco, Pernod Ricard, The Lion Match Company, Sara Lee, MTN, Johnson & Johnson and V&A Waterfront. Globally, QlikView customers include AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Top Flite, 3M and The Campbell Soup Company.
"We only began marketing QlikView two years ago so BI was already a reality for many of the companies we have dealt with. Our growth resulted from the fact that these companies weren`t getting value from their existing BI implementations. QlikView is a new generation tool which uses a completely different approach. We didn`t have to sell BI as a concept as the need was already recognised. We simply had to show that QlikView can be implemented in days, not months or years, and that it can be used by anyone in the organisation with very little training," concludes Hanan.
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QlikView South Africa is the South African representative and distributor for QlikTech, the Swedish developer of QlikView business intelligence and data analytics software. QlikView is an industry-changing application that is dramatically easier to deploy and use than traditional business intelligence technology. It provides instant, in-memory manipulation of massive datasets on low-cost hardware, allowing affordable and widespread deployment of highly sophisticated analytic applications. QlikView South Africa also provides consulting and implementation services to simplify business analysis and to connect more people at all levels in an organisation to the information they need.
For more information about QlikView South Africa, visit www.qlikview.co.za.
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