QlikView South Africa wins top global honour

QlikView SA, the local representative of the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) software company QlikTech, has been named Partner of the Year at the company’s annual Partner Summit in Barcelona. 

“There are nearly 900 QlikTech partners around the world, so we’re very proud to be singled out as a leader,” says QlikView SA’s Davide Hanan. “We had a great 2008 and a phenomenal first quarter of 2009, signing up 50 new clients in three months. QlikView now has a very strong position in the South African market.” 

Hanan attributes QlikView SA’s success partly to his company’s solid understanding both of the QlikView product and of business intelligence in general. “We have a superb product and we know what we’re doing when it comes to implementing it,” he says. “South Africa boasts some superbly skilled and experienced BI professionals, and this is confirmation that we can be very strong global players.” 

QlikTech’s international partner network grew by 25% during 2008, at a time when many of its competitors were scaling back. “QlikTech’s partner model is fundamental to accelerating our growth,” said Lars Bjork, CEO of QlikTech. “I am proud to see that the continued adoption and expansion of QlikView is driving the success of hundreds of our alliance partners. In a climate where most are experiencing stagnant sales, QlikTech and its partners continue to gain new ground, introducing the power of QlikView to new sectors and geographies.” 

QlikTech added over 3800 new customers in 2008, with roughly 10 of every 13 coming through partners. Customers range across industries from financial services to retail, consumer products to public sector and healthcare to manufacturing.

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About QlikView South Africa  

QlikView South Africa is the local representative and distributor for QlikTech, the business answers company.  Its flagship product QlikView, named South Africa ’s top business intelligence tool by ITWeb in 2008, enables organisations of all sizes to unlock the value of their data to make better decisions that improve business results.  Unlike traditional BI solutions, QlikView delivers immediate value with payback measured in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. Through QlikView’s disruptive, in-memory associative approach, business users have experienced unprecedented success and satisfaction. QlikTech is the only company in this market that offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.  QlikTech grew by 50% in 2008 and has more than 10,500 customers in 92 countries and over 700 partners worldwide.  QlikView South Africa was named QlikTech’s Partner of the Year for 2008.  For more information, please visit www.qlikview.co.za.

 

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