Beautiful morning here in Boulder warm and sunny. Glad to have
QlikTech here today. Anthony Deighton Senior VP of Products and Chief Strategist, Neil Florio Director of Marketing, John Trigg Global Product Manager joined us by phone. (Shame they were too busy to attend in person) and Brian Walh Sr. Sales Engineer and Tony Setter District Manager from the Denver market attended in person and seemed to enjoy meeting everyone.
The company was founded in 1993 and according to IDC was the world's fastest-growing BI Vendor in 2006, they have 11,400+ customers, 500,000+ users in 95 countries. 800 global partners. QlikTech aims to fill the need around simplicity and OLAP style powered reporting. They leverage in-memory technology coupled with processor power to drive performance. By storing the atomic data in memory calculating and aggregating on the fly. Many of the views are stored so they can be reused for others that ask the same questions of the system.
Development, Deployment Analysis and Collaboration are the steps that the QlikView solution takes and enables the user to control. The Analysis and Collaboration side is very easy to use and intuitive. Offers a wide range of dashboard options and configurations. The solution provides aggressive data compression so that everyone who is hitting the data can hit it at the same time. Version 9 of QlikView has real-time capabilities to make sure your data is up to the minute.
The Development and Deployment side of the solution is easier to use than many solutions I've seen but it still requires IT to get involved. I can see why the Data Admin's would like QlikView for how fast and easy it is to get data into the solutions and to leverage it. As the data becomes easier to get to the QlikTech solutions will need a governance side to control data, access and to insure that the users see data the same way. The deployment side is nice, you can deploy on mobile, cloud, On-premise or laptop.
You can find some very nice demo's on QlikView at
http://demo.qlikview.com/
