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March 2009 Newsletter

Record January sales point to the value of business intelligence in tough times

January 2009 has turned out to be our best month ever: we added 15 new customers to our local client base, including one of South Africa’s biggest retailers!

After a remarkable 2008 where we grew by more than 100%, we are managing to keep up the pace and even accelerate. And this is happening in one of the most difficult economic climates.

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“Getting one’s hands on information to make management decisions is now possible all day and every day.”

Lieze Kotze, Managing Director, Oxford University Press

“QlikView has decreased the uncertainly in our refining process as well as the risks involved. It saves me 50 hours of time every month and lets me sleep at night.”

Shaun McEwan, Metallurgical Services Manager, Rand Refinery

Anthony Deighton, QlikTech’s SVP for Marketing was interviewed by Summit TV during his recent visit to South Africa. The interview will be aired on the following days:

Monday 23 March	18:40
Tuesday 24 March	21:47
Friday 27 March	20:47

We are planning to hold some QlikView 8.5 workshops in April. Please email andrewe@qlikview.co.za if you or anyone in your organisation wishes to attend.

QlikView is recognised as the only Champion in the 2009 Aberdeen AXIS report

The Aberdeen AXIS is an objective, fact-based vendor assessment report.

A Champion is defined as a vendor that has demonstrated superior proficiency in delivering both real value as well as the ability to serve and support its installed user base. Twelve BI/Performance Management software solution providers, including Business Objects (SAP), Cognos (IBM), Hyperion (Oracle), and Microsoft, were evaluated based on their ability to provide customers with greater visibility into performance drivers and the ability to better manage decisions and actions that affect company performance.

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QlikTech wins European Entrepreneur of the year award

QlikTech has won the Audemars Piguet “Changing Times Award”. This is awarded to companies that can demonstrate innovation, cutting-edge technology, boldness and hyper-growth and is limited to European companies only.

QlikView slashes costs, risks at world’s biggest single site gold refinery and smelter

Refining a commodity as valuable as gold makes for unique business challenges. That is why Rand Refinery, the world’s largest single site gold refinery and smelter, chose QlikView to increase production efficiencies and boost its profitability.

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QlikView wins fans at leading publisher

Leading educational publisher - Oxford University Press – was impressed with QlikView from the time of the first demo. QlikView is now used widely in their organisation to manage sales, orders, stock and finance.

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No challenge is too great for QlikView

To prove it, we have a QlikView team taking part in the Racing The Planet event in Namibia, covering 250km across the desert over 6 days.

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