Sydney, November 24, 2008 Deloitte South Africa joins the community of 9,999 other organisations around the world in giving people the analysis they need to make better business decisions with its purchase of QlikView, QlikTech’s award-winning business analysis software.

QlikView provides visual and intuitive analysis of any aspect of organisational performance in dashboards and reports. QlikView works the way the mind works to connect related data from many sources – giving people the information they need with the detail they want to make the right decisions.

Deloitte is among the region’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through nearly 3,600 partners / directors and staff in more than 16 offices in southern Africa. Known as an employer of choice for its innovative human resources program, it is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel.

Deloitte South Africa chose QlikView to provide simple yet sophisticated analysis for HR management. “We knew we had to make it easier to find specific information, give access to instant analysis and get the true picture of our talent pool by combining multiple data sources. We also knew that we would succeed only if the business owned the final solution. After assessing a number of alternative solutions, QlikView was the obvious answer,” said Hein Bisschoff, Senior Manager: Reward & Analytics at Deloitte South Africa.

Deloitte developed the initial dashboard in only three days with the assistance of QlikView South Africa, a QlikView Qonnect Partner Program Master Reseller. The Qonnect Program has hundreds of certified partners ranging from service providers who sell QlikView and/or deliver specialized domain expertise, to OEM Partners whose solutions are “powered by QlikView.”

The detailed performance dashboard was in the hands of Executives and HR professionals within 30 days – in less than the time it took for the invoicing cycle. “We understood that we would need to be extremely creative to ensure acceptance and optimal use of our human resources dashboard, now called TalentScope,” continued Bisschoff. “QlikView allows us to offer individual customisation without external support, where executives get exactly the information that is relevant and useful to them. With QlikView, human resources moved from zero to hero in a very short space of time, but we will not be leaving it there. We continue to adapt TalentScope to address increasingly sophisticated user needs, in line with organisational demand – something that would not have been possible this quickly and cost effectively with any other software.”

QlikTech is leading the new class of companies who deliver business software that is as simple to use as personal software, emerging from the shadow cast by the big traditional business intelligence (BI) vendors with complex solutions that take months to deploy, costs millions and require specialized expertise. In today’s volatile economy, time-to-value has never been more important. QlikView eliminates the typical trade-off between power and simplicity, designed with patented in-memory association technology to analyze billions of records in seconds and scale to thousands of users. QlikView applications can be deployed in days and changed instantly, with users working in minutes.

“We’re absolutely delighted to have Deloitte as our 10,000th customer, and especially to support them in managing their most important asset – their people. Deloitte’s introduction to QlikView and their ‘time-to-value’ is quite representative of our entire customer community,” said Lars Björk, CEO of QlikTech. “QlikView South Africa is a fantastic partner. Our business model of selling both directly and through our partners has been – and will continue to be – a key component in our exponential growth.”