October 2008 Newsletter

The World Economic Forum uses QlikView to produce its Global Competitiveness Index Analyser

The World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report has evolved over the past three decades into the world’s most comprehensive assessment of countries’ competitiveness. Produced in collaboration with leading academics, it also features the perceptions of 12000 business leaders from 134 countries.

This year, they have also produced an Index Analyser using QlikView and published it on the web! Read more

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CUSTOMER QUOTES

“People are ecstatic about the tool.”

Ed Montocchio, Head of IT, Mondi South Africa

“Now we have an easy way to analyse data according to any variable we want to track.”

Philip du Plessis, Divisional Manager for Contracts, MRC

QLIKVIEW TRAINING

QlikView Professional
Johannesburg	10 November
	24 November
	26 November
	08 December
Cape Town	13 November
	09 December
QlikView Developer
Johannesburg	04 December
Cape Town	18 November

QLIKVIEW 8.5 WORKSHOPS

These will be held in Cape Town on 17 November and in Johannesburg on 20 November. Please email Wiedaad (wiedaadvdf@qlikview.co.za) if you or anyone in your organisation wishes to attend.

For the fourth consecutive year, QlikView is recognised as the best Software Solution for midsize enterprises

The Midsize Enterprise Summit is a yearly global event that addresses the information technology issues unique to midsize organisations (annual sales revenue of $1 billion or less).

This event brings together Senior Executives, Technology Providers, Gartner Analysts and their peers to examine trends, discuss business and IT concerns and evaluate products and services. After two days of boardroom presentations and one-on-one meetings, the decision-makers vote on the products and services presented at the summit.

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QlikView Tips & Tricks

We will be launching our QlikView Technical Newsletter next month. It is targeted to all our QlikView Professional and Developer users and will be produced every second month. Please email Andrew (andrewe@qlikview.co.za ) if there are any issues that you would like us to cover.

Mondi gets quick, easy access to SAP information via QlikView

Forest, pulp and paper producer, Mondi South Africa, has successfully integrated QlikView with their SAP ECC6 (Enterprise Core Component) installation, achieving in weeks what one would have expected to take months.

This is another installation where the new QlikView SAP Connector was put to the test.

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MRC use QlikView to manage R500m budget

South Africa’s Medical Research Council (MRC) has used QlikView to improve the management of its annual Government grant and its 220 contract research projects (annual budget about R500m).

Divisional Manager for Contracts and Budgets, Philip du Plessis, says QlikView has helped the MRC save time and resources as well as enabling better decision making.

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QlikView Enterprise has been renamed QlikView Developer

This name change is most certainly welcomed and was done for very obvious reasons.

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