BI Software Vendors - QlikTech

QlikTech - Business Intelligence Solutions

QlikTech executed very well in 2006, increasing its revenue by 80% and significantly expanding its customer base to over 5,400 organizations. Its technical advantages using an in-memory data model, automated data integration and a graphical analytical environment have attracted customers looking for both ease of use and highly scalable functionality.

Ironically, QlikTech — one of the smaller vendors evaluated in the Magic Quadrant — is able to show the most references, analyzing hundreds of millions of rows of data with good query performance. Beyond the performance capabilities, QlikTech has some unique architectural and contractual aspects. For example, by simultaneously "doing the inner and the outer join," QlikView makes it very easy for users to see both the query results and the non-query results. This functionality can be useful when performing analysis of the data, in particular when spotting outliers.

Also, QlikTech is the only vendor in the Magic Quadrant to provide a money-back guarantee, which takes some of the risk out of the vendor selection process. Given its size, QlikTech has a reasonably sized sales force that covers most of Europe and North America. For QlikTech to become a leader, it needs to show more examples of enterprisewide BI deployments where customers use QlikView as the system of record for BI metadata for all BI applications.

Source: http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/oracle/145507.html