QlikView South Africa says sales of its groundbreaking business intelligence (BI) tool are set to more than double in 2008 compared to 2007. “As of the end of May we’d already sold more licences than we did during the whole of 2007,” says MD Davide Hanan. “The response from our customers supports our belief that QlikView is finally offering what the market has been waiting for over the past 20 years.”

Business intelligence remains the top technology priority for CIOs around the world, according to a Gartner Executive Programs survey released earlier this year. The organisation predicts the overall BI market will continue to grow strongly, by 11.2% in 2008. Gartner expects BI sales to be little affected by the economic downturn because of the high priority it enjoys thanks to its strategic value. 

QlikView is set to be a major beneficiary of this focus, growing faster than any other BI platform in 2007 according to Gartner’s 2008 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms. Gartner reported that QlikView was already being considered a BI standard by midsize global firms, and that it had the highest proportion of customers reporting no technical problems out of all the BI platforms surveyed. 

Hanan says QlikView is a disruptive technology in the BI market. “In South Africa , we’ve grown from nothing to become the preferred BI tool in the country in just four years. This is because we have reinvented BI, we have redefined its rules and we have delivered on its promise.” 

“Traditional BI tools are primarily glorified report generation engines. They will still be around for a while, but purely for historical reasons; they are essentially legacy systems based on a 20-year-old technology that will be replaced in time. More than 50% of our clients in South Africa were using a traditional OLAP-based BI tool before they started using QlikView,” says Hanan. “This is not surprising for us. After all, who would buy a new car with a 20-year-old engine in it?”

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About QlikView South Africa

QlikView South Africa is the local representative and distributor for QlikView, the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence software (IDC) and South Africa’s preferred Business Intelligence tool (ITWeb Survey 2008). 

QlikView simplifies analysis for everyone and works the way your mind works – making associations by connecting data from many sources in a few clicks. This patented in-memory association technology brings fast results and better decision making to a wide range of customers and industries. QlikView is intuitive to learn, simple to modify and can be deployed in less than a week. 

QlikView is the flagship product of QlikTech who has more than 7,400 customers in 83 countries and more than 500 partners worldwide. QlikTech was founded in Lund, Sweden and is headquartered in Radnor, PA (USA) with direct operations throughout Europe. QlikTech offers a fully functional, free trial of QlikView and a 30-day money-back guarantee. For more information, please visit www.qlikview.com

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QlikView South Africa
Davide Hanan

Tel:       021 680 9506

Cell:      082 788 5791

Email:   davideh@qlikview.co.za  

DUO Marketing + Communications
Maria Oosthuizen

Tel:      021 683 8223

Cell:     084 506 7649

Email:   maria@duomarketing.co.za