QlikTech: More Business Intelligence from Sweden
August 11, 2008
QlikTech is one of the fastest growing business intelligence companies in the world. The company’s Web site here asserts that it has more than 7,300 customers. Based in Lund, QlikTech has morphed from consulting to software. Its core technology is software that makes exploring data a point-and-click affair. Most graphical interfaces require that the user know what specific statistical processes can do and how they work. QlikTech’s approach exposes options. When a user clicks on a option, excluded in inappropriate options are grayed out. A typical manager can point and click her way analysis of a Web site’s traffic or explore cash flow.
The company offers a number of demos here. One caution. Not all of the demos work. In my tests, latency played a part in the Java demos I tried. The Ajax demos were for the most part acceptable, but several rendered empty browser screens. You will need to explore these on your computer.
Sybase has inked a deal with QlikTech for the company’s analytics system. You can read the article from the WebNewsWire here. Sybase will use QlikTech to provide “dashboards” to Sybase users who want to give Sybase licensees point-and-click interfaces and graphical displays that show important data at a glance.
Sybase offers its own analytic tools (Sybase IQ), but a typical user needs training and technical expertise that most managers cannot acquire quickly. So, QlikTech to the rescue. QlikView operates in-memory, thus eliminating the hassle of building cubes and delays associated with traditional queries. The QlikView system automatically associates related data as a user clicks on options in the interface. With the in memory approach, a user can whip through data in a more fluid manner.
Business intelligence is becoming the new “search”. QlikView’s technology can manipulate most structured data.
Stephen Arnold, August 11, 2008
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