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

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Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:00am EDT

New Version Offers On-Premise, Cloud and Mobile Deployments
RADNOR, Pa.--(Business Wire)--
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. 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
www.qlikcommunity.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 asingle 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. 

QlikTech and QlikView are trademarks or registered trademarks of QlikTech
International AB. Other company names, product names and company logos mentioned
herein are the trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 

© 2009 QlikTech International AB. All rights reserved. QlikTech, QlikView, Qlik,
Q, Simplifying Analysis for Everyone, Power of Simplicity, New Rules, The
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and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting any
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