QlikView 9 Sets New BI Standard for Usability and Time to Value, and Enhances Enterprise Scalability and Manageability

06/10/2009

QlikTech, the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) company, today announced the immediate availability of QlikView Version 9, its flagship BI product that accesses and analyzes real-time operational data to provide meaningful business answers.

ebizQ received the following:

QlikView has set the standard for BI simplicity, usability and time to value. Now, QlikView 9 builds on that success as the first and only BI tool that meets the needs of all business and power users, works equally well in any-size deployment and on any platform, and can be accessed anywhere, anytime—including on-premise, in the cloud, or on a laptop or mobile device. QlikView 9 also raises the bar with significantly enhanced enterprise manageability, performance and scalability, real-time data, and reporting capabilities.

Highlights of QlikView 9 include:

• Enterprise Manageability—Supports large deployments, data sets, real-time data and PDF reporting



• Cloud Availability—Through Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Web service



• QlikView Mobile—Launch of Java Mobile and iPhone clients



• QlikView Personal Edition—Free downloadable developer tool for personal use



• Usability and Simplicity—Enhanced visualization and search capabilities

“The BI industry in the midst of a major transition,” says Lars Björk, CEO of QlikTech. “Time to value and usability are now the defining forces influencing adoption. Our dramatic growth to date is a testament to that fact. In contrast, traditional BI providers are experiencing significant revenue declines, and surviving on maintenance and services fees. QlikView 9 is ideal for companies frustrated with failed attempts to implement BI from vendors such as SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Oracle. More and more understand the value of switching to QlikView because of its dramatically higher project success rate.”

Deployable in the Cloud QlikView 9 can be deployed in the cloud to further speed time-to-value, scale capacity on the fly, and give users the benefit of lower upfront cost structures. Companies running QlikView 9 in the cloud enjoy elastic scalability, platform neutrality and zero infrastructure cost. Users can be up and running with QlikView 9 in the cloud in 15 minutes. QlikTech uses Amazon’s state-of-the-art Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Web service as its cloud backbone for the utmost in speed, reliability and global access.

Powerful, Interactive Mobile Access QlikView 9 is the first BI tool available as a mobile app that delivers a truly interactive mobile business intelligence experience by taking full advantage of leading devices’ native functionality. QlikView 9 supports all major mobile platforms including: the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry and Symbian-based smartphones. QlikView for iPhone is a groundbreaking app that fully leverages the iPhone’s Multi-Touch interface and GPS features to deliver QlikView 9’s industry-defining interactive capabilities. QlikView 9 is also available on the majority of other mobile platforms through the new QlikView Java Mobile client for devices running Java Virtual Machine.

Extending Enterprise Capabilities Many large institutions already rely on QlikView. QlikView 9 offers support for larger deployments than ever through significant new manageability, performance and scalability, real-time data, and reporting enhancements:

Manageability

• Comprehensive, Highly-Visual Control Panels—Gives administrators a single, logical view of all QlikView Servers and modules to monitor usage and resource allocation across an entire enterprise deployment.

Performance and Scalability

• Load balancing—Auto-senses the load on multiple, connected QlikView Servers and auto-routes users to the most appropriate instance for better memory utilization and faster query responses.



• Field Frequency Calculation Optimization—Better handles large, complex and concurrent queries without impeding system performance.



• Large Data Volume—Supports data sets with billions of records, ensuring support for even the largest enterprise data requirements.



• AJAX and Java Thin-Client Collaboration Support—Enables user objects and shared objects to be distributed between all browser-based QlikView users. This facilitates collaborative data sharing and analysis, and ensures everyone across an organization works with the same version of truth. Real-Time Data



• Live, Push Data into Memory—Data in memory is refreshed in real-time, ensuring all QlikView analyses reflect reality in critical business environments. For example, financial institutions can monitor and analyze stock trading patterns; manufacturers can track plant productivity, bottlenecks and individual worker output; and call centers can evaluate call queues, volumes and average response times.

Reporting

• PDF Report Generation and Distribution—Seamlessly integrated into QlikView process flows, ensuring those requiring static reports automatically get them. These reports are created and delivered in near real-time, ensuring data and analysis is valid and relevant. PDF reports can also be generated and printed by anyone using QlikView through a Web-based client.

QlikView 9 Enables Anyone to Create Custom Apps QlikView Personal Edition, a fully-functional, free downloadable QlikView developer tool for personal use, means creating personalized applications is no longer the exclusive domain of power users. QlikView Personal Edition is a first for the BI industry. Other BI providers only offer trials of pieces of their developer toolkits with limited trial periods. Only QlikView Personal Edition provides unlimited, complete functionality. It makes it easy for anyone to develop their own QlikView applications with no previous training or technical expertise. Users can design applications for any environment, from the largest to the smallest QlikView deployments. Accompanying the debut of QlikView Personal Edition is a new community presence at community.qlikview.com designed to support the creation and evolution of exciting new QlikView applications. Advanced Visualization & Search QlikView 9 makes business answers come to life with new, state-of-the-art visualizations, including detailed charting features such as spark lines, whiskers, trellis charts, and live chart backgrounds that provide more flexibility to analyze and display data than ever before.

QlikView 9 also incorporates the BI industry’s most comprehensive global search functionality. It enables users to search every QlikView field simultaneously, from anywhere in the application with just one click. As users type in their search words, QlikView instantly highlights available matches for immediate access. Users can search hundreds of fields at once to ensure every element of their QlikView database is investigated for matches. Traditional BI can only provide insight into limited numbers of fields, meaning users have to manually switch to different parts of their application and keep re-running searches, uncertain of how thorough they have been.

Availability QlikView 9 is now available to all customers as a download through community.qlikview.com and the QlikTech partner network. QlikView Personal Edition is also now available as a download at www.qlikview.com.   About QlikTech QlikTech is the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) company. Its flagship QlikView product delivers instant business answers, enabling users to easily explore their data without limits. Unlike traditional BI, QlikView delivers immediate value with payback measured in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. It is the only BI offering that can be deployed on premise, in the cloud, or on a laptop or mobile device—from a single user to the largest global enterprise.

Through QlikView’s disruptive, in-memory associative approach, business users have experienced unprecedented success and satisfaction, backed by its unique 30-day money-back guarantee. QlikTech has more than 11,100 customers in 95 countries and over 800 partners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.qlikview.com.

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