Quality Sugars finds sweet solution with BusinessIntelligent, Qlikview

Johannesburg, 17 Jul 2013

BusinessIntelligent, a leading provider of business intelligence and application development solutions in South Africa, responded to Quality Sugars' plea by illustrating the effectiveness of QlikView BI technology. A partner to BusinessIntelligent, QlikView is the fastest-growing business intelligence vendor globally and in South Africa, and the company ensures that new ideas and technologies facilitate the client's improvement by consolidating reporting data. The latter function particularly appealed to Quality Sugars, with QlikView further supporting the company's mandate for a quick and cost-effective application of services.

In particular need of an application assisting in an integrated approach to its sales analysis, Quality Sugars set out to investigate the feasibility and capability of an in-memory business analysis and reporting solution - which was perfectly matched by the benefits and functionality of QlikView.

Says Wilko Smit, National Sales and Trade Marketing Manager of Quality Sugars: "As a big company handling large volumes of data, it was very important to the organisation to apply business intelligence solutions that would assist and benefit Quality Sugars' goal of streamlining its processes in order to further extend our scope, growth and success. Apart from all its benefits, a major selling point of QlikView is that it is Web based, which made it an attractive solution for our salespeople who operate in the field."

According to Nicholas Bell, CEO at BusinessIntelligent, more and more companies are recognising business intelligent solutions as a crucial means to improve business insight and decision-making processes. "For Quality Sugars, a company that is meticulous about outcomes and accurate results, QlikView was a natural partner, as it illustrated that it is really in tune with the organisation's environment - we are thrilled to report on another happy, and more effective, customer."

BusinessIntelligent

BusinessIntelligent is a leading provider of business intelligence and application development solutions in South Africa. The company's value proposition focuses on delivering solutions to customers that enable them to improve their competitiveness and enable their people to make better-quality decisions.

The business intelligence field is a billion-dollar industry globally, and with the global economy in such uncertainty, it is critical for companies to make the right decisions the first time. Companies can no longer afford to be reactive or allow their competitors to control the markets they play in; they need to be predictive, proactive and informed. BusinessIntelligent focuses on empowering users by providing them with information about their businesses and leading them on a journey to improve.

BusinessIntelligent has a proven track record, having successfully helped companies improve their performance and operational effectiveness. The company continues to be a trusted consultant to South Africa's top companies, including SAB, Harmony Gold, ArcelorMittal, Simba, Barloworld, Foodcorp, SABMiller, Cobra, TSB Sugar and Legalwise, to name a few.

BusinessIntelligent's approach to business intelligence has been disruptive to the market, and through partnering with the fastest-growing business intelligence vendor globally and in South Africa, QlikView, the company ensures that new ideas and technologies facilitate clients' improvement.

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Quality Sugars finds sweet solution with BusinessIntelligent, Qlikview

Seeking a quick and cost-effective approach to its need for integrated sales analytics applications, Quality Sugars, one of the largest sugar producers in SA, approached BusinessIntelligent to address this need.