QlikTech, the world's fastest-growing business intelligence software company, has announced that its QlikView technology has been selected as Best Execution of a Mid-Market IT Solution by conference attendees at the recent *Gartner Midsize Enterprise Summit. Each year at the Gartner Midsize Enterprise Summit, IT solutions are evaluated onsite by conference attendees based on depth and breadth of the software solution as well as overall company reputation in the marketplace. Gartner defines Midsize Enterprises as companies with up to 1000 employees and US$300m in annual revenue.

QlikTech is leading a new class of easy-to-use, fast and flexible business analysis solutions that empower individuals to improve corporate performance and drive innovation. QlikTech's flagship product, QlikView, extends the company's vision of simplifying business analysis, offering solutions that can be deployed in days, where users can be trained in minutes, and where end users have the freedom to be more creative in their analyses.

"The IT Executives in attendance review many products and services at Midsize Enterprise Summit. A Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award signifies that the attendees viewed the winners as having a level of excellence for IT vendors in their category," said Charles Badoian, Senior Global Director for Midsize Enterprise Summit.

"We are honoured to be chosen as a winner for Best Execution of a Mid-Market IT Solution by the attendees," said Anthony Deighton, vice president of marketing at QlikTech. "The last year has been a pivotal one for QlikTech; we have achieved a great deal in a relatively short period of time. We've realised 80 percent growth year over year and added over 1 350 net new customers to our customer roster. We feel that this nomination reflects what we're seeing in the market - an increased appetite for simple, powerful business analysis."

Locally, QlikView South Africa has shown strong growth over the past year. "QlikView is the ideal solution for the South African market and this is reflected in the rapid adoption of the product in country," says MD Davide Hanan. "It can be implemented and users trained in a very short period of time measured in days, not months or years. It is also very cost effective which is always a consideration for small and large companies. "

About Midsize Enterprise Summit
Midsize Enterprise Summit brings Senior IT Executives from midsize businesses together with Gartner Analysts, and leading and emerging Technology Vendors. The focus - enabling strategic IT Decision-Making - embraces midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format includes Gartner-led sessions, Vendor-led World Premiere and Private Boardroom Appointments, a Showcase of Exhibits, and networking functions.

*Note to editors
Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have different IT requirements and often face different IT challenges than large enterprises. For the purposes of its research Gartner defines SMBs using the following approximate size categories:

Small business : In the United States, less than $50m in annual revenue and up to 100 employees; in Europe, less than $10m in annual revenue and up to 75 employees

Midsize business : In the United States, between $50m and $300m in annual revenue and between 100 and 1 000 employees; in Europe, between $10m and $150m in annual revenue and between 75 and 300 employees

About QlikView South Africa

QlikView SA is the South African representative and distributor for QlikTech, the Swedish developer of QlikView business intelligence and analytics software. QlikView SA provides additional consulting and implementation services to simplify business analysis for its customers, connecting more people at all levels in an organisation to the information they need. 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.

For more information about QlikView SA, visit www.qlikview.co.za. Contact details:

QlikView South Africa
Contact: Davide Hanan
Tel: (021) 680-9506
Email: davideh@qlikview.co. za

Sentient Communications
Contact: Michelle Scurr
Tel: (021) 422-4275
Email: michelle.scurr@sentientcommunications.co.za