QlikTech today announced that it has launched a comprehensive go-to-market strategy in Greater China, following its recent success expanding in Asia Pacific with its Japan launch earlier this year. QlikTech is poised to make significant inroads into the BI market in China (where IDC estimated that the total market had a value of US$260 million in 2008 after growing some 15%), as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
QlikTech has underlined a major commitment to servicing the Greater China market lead by Shanghai-based Master Reseller Commit Info, who will be launching the Chinese version of QlikView into the region.
Strategic agreement has also been reached with Kingdee Software, a leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software Company headquartered in Shenzhen, who posseses the largest number of users in China. Kingdee selected QlikView to be integrated into the business intelligence module of its K/3 ERP standard edition system, to provide its customers with the most powerful business information analysis tools. As the number one supplier of ERP to small to medium enterprises for the past four years (according to IDC) Kingdee’s 600,000 customers and 1,100 partners create a powerful network. A number of Kingdee customers purchased QlikView immediately after the announcement of its availability.
“We are thrilled to unveil major initiatives in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan that we believe will quickly make QlikView an important force in Greater China. With the traditional players lacking QlikView’s associative capabilities and rapid time to value, we expect to win business from companies that have been ill-served by their current solutions and are fed up with failed and expensive attempts to implement BI,” said Lars Bjork, CEO of QlikTech. “QlikView now offers companies of all sizes in Greater China a whole new class of BI software so they can get to the answers they need quickly, and have the flexibility to make the strategic changes that will sustain their business for competitive advantage. The era of antiquated, hard-to-use BI software is coming to an end.”
QlikTech has over 40 customers in Greater China in many sectors, including food and beverage, financial services, logistics, government and public sector, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, real estate, retail and trading. Current customers include CTR, Homemart, Little Sheep, Sidel, Bank of China and Zhonghai Fund Management Co. Ltd.
