RADNOR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK) a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2012 Business Intelligence Platform Magic Quadrant report*. QlikTech secured its coveted position in the Leaders Quadrant based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Gartner Magic Quadrants provide a snapshot of how vendors perform in a market segment with the goal of helping end users make better informed decisions about companies they may be looking to partner with, or whose services or products they may want to purchase. The full report is available for download from http://www.qlikview.com.
According to Gartner, “In 2011, business users continued to exert significant influence over BI decisions, often choosing data discovery products in addition to/as alternatives to traditional BI tools.” They explain that “In 2011, the BI platform market expansion was influenced by significant increases in demand from a wide array of ‘users’: line workers, business analysts, advanced analytic professionals, business executives, customers/constituents, partners, regulators, and IT professionals. … This expansion is not a temporary aberration, but a sea change for the business analytics marketplace, and by extension for the BI platform market.”
“We’re thrilled to be an early pioneer and catalyst to this sea change in the industry that Gartner describes,” said Lars Björk, QlikTech’s chief executive officer. “Continued momentum has solidified this trend toward user-driven business intelligence, which we define as Business Discovery. As a leader in the space, we believe QlikTech is well positioned to grow this market and continue to be recognized as an industry leader. We’re excited to see the whole category continue to thrive.”
QlikTech has disrupted the BI industry by empowering all business users with interactive data analysis instead of static reports. The company is now leading the Social BI trend that leverages the power of the collaborative decision making for a group, organization, or department to accelerate better decisions with greater alignment and transparency.
In the fall of 2011, the company announced QlikView 11, introducing social decision-making on its self-service BI platform to help business users collaborate to make more insightful decisions. With this release, QlikTech expanded its vision to include all the ways people make decisions every day – with relevant data, on location, and with teams. Business users are further empowered with new collaborative and mobile capabilities, and IT managers will appreciate the unified management functionality that allows them to keep control and governance at the core while pushing usage out to the edges of the organization.
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* Gartner “Magic Quadrants for Business Intelligence Platforms” by John Hagerty, Rita L. Sallam, James Richardson, February 6, 2012.
About QlikTech
QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in Business Discovery—user-driven Business Intelligence (BI). QlikTech's powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional business intelligence solutions and standalone office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered allows users to explore information freely rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app–like model, remixability and reassembly, and a social and collaborative experience. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, QlikTech has offices around the world serving approximately 22,000 customers in over 100 countries.
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