QlikView Business Intelligence Positioned IN VISIONARIES QUADRANT in IT Advisory Firm's Magic Quadrant

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

QlikTech, the leading business intelligence software vendor in the mid market, today announced its placement in the Visionaries quadrant in Gartner, Inc.’s “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008.”
“Widespread adoption by thousands of companies of all sizes has made QlikView not only a proven solution – our users also tell us that QlikView makes analysis cool,” said              Anthony Deighton, Senior Vice President of Marketing at QlikTech. 
QlikTech’ s award-winning business analysis solution, QlikView, works the way your mind works to make associations of data from any source for accurate and actionable information.  This patented, associative, in-memory design makes QlikView intuitive to learn and simple to change, able to analyze billions of records instantly on affordable hardware platforms.
Vendors in Gartner, Inc.’s “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008” were evaluated according to their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision with numerous criteria for each. Factors in the Ability to Execute included product competitiveness, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness and track record and customer experience. Factors in the Completeness of Vision included market understanding, business models and product, marketing, sales, industry and geographic strategies.
QlikTech is participating at Gartner’s BI Summit conference in Amsterdam from February 5 to 7, 2009 at the RAI Convention Center; Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG’s CIO, Michael Neff, will present “In-Memory Analysis: Turbo Charge for Heidelberger’s Global BI Strategy” on Wednesday, February 6, at 10:45 am in Room B. 
About QlikTech
QlikTech’s flagship product, QlikView, simplifies analysis for everyone. QlikView 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. Named the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence software vendor by IDC, QlikTech has more than 7,300 customers in 82 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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