Business Intelligence Users Want Software That Tells (and Sells) a Thousand Stories - QlikView user conference survey outlines priorities for BI software

Stuart Barnard, Inside Info's MD at Qonnections with Alastair Pearson, Partner & Kieran Earnshaw, Director at PwC

Sydney, August 6, 2009 – Business intelligence experts and users will prioritise business intelligence software in 2009/2010 to deliver greater operational visibility and uncover business opportunities (74%), suggesting BI within medium-large enterprises is perceived as a revenue-generator ahead of saving time and money.

QlikTech and Inside Info, the Australian provider of QlikView business intelligence software, conducted the survey at the first annual QlikView Australian user conference, Qonnections, in Sydney this month. More than 100 specialist business intelligence users attended including customers, partners and other BI specialists.

Overwhelmingly, business intelligence software is used right across the enterprise, with senior management the primary users of BI and reporting (93 per cent) and sales and finance teams joint second.

The day-long Qonnections event featured speakers from Inside Info’s rapidly growing customer base (250+ in Australia) including Talent 2, Amcor and Manassen Foods, and partner, PwC. The majority of those attended to keep abreast of business intelligence product developments, share ideas and learn from others (65 per cent). Specifically, 29 per cent wanted to learn about QlikView 9’s advanced visualisations with 17 per cent interested in global search capabilities of data.

“We purposely chose to not run the typical IT industry, vendor-dominated user group forum for the QlikView community.  The calibre of speakers from well-known domestic and global brands at our first Qonnections user conference demonstrates the value that attendees see in QlikView, business intelligence itself and in learning from peers,“ said Stuart Barnard, Managing Director at Inside Info. “We’re tremendously grateful to everyone who attended and made the conference such a success.“

Inside Info launched QlikView’s new release, version 9, to its community at the event, showcasing new enhancements in the areas of enterprise manageability, live real-time push data into memory for faster querying, mobile user (iPhone, Blackberry and Java mobile) and cloud deployments, integrated reporting, advanced visualisations and usability improvements including global search to bring operational data to life.

Also a first for the business intelligence industry, QlikView’s Personal Edition is available as a fully-functional, free downloadable QlikView developer tool for personal use from www.insideinfo.com.au.

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“  We have interactive visibility into sales, profitability, logistics and supply chain performance. Our initial applications were delivered in just four weeks with excellent results  ”

Wayne McIntosh, Finance Director
“  We can measure and work to continuously improve profitability, targeted delivery, superior service & quality performance. Until now, we never had true gross margin analysis by customer; this has improved servicing of accounts  ”

Rob Pyne, General Manager, Australasia Corporate Services
“  QlikView delivered value fast for Amcor – with Inside Info working with us to design & deploy our BI applications we saw a significant return in a few months  ”

Rob Pyne, General Manager, Australasia Corporate Services
“  Senior management are now analysing living information themselves with QlikView… saving our IT team at least 500 hours a year in manual report development  ”

Peter Crescitelli, IT Project Manager, Bianco
“  We realised value from our investment within days. We built a powerful profitability analysis application that was back on the desks of business managers in 6 days, showing for the first time an integrated view of customer profitability at a material level  ”

Tim Hogan, Manager, Business Intelligence
“  It’s not a trivial exercise to go into an organisation, understand the business need and solve it. Inside Info’s ability to translate our needs into easy to use data models first time and every time has been invaluable. The whole relationship is simple  ”

Haydn Jones, IT Operations Manager
“  Inside Info using QlikView gave us a 15% improved return on rebate investment, while also helping us to better manage promotions, stock, customers and resources to fuel future growth of the business  ”

Nick Vasic, Financial Controller
“  QlikView is the best management tool I’ve ever used  ”

Kim Naylor, CEO, Fujitsu General, NZ
“  Using QlikView, Inside Info has allowed our customers to more easily identify health market trends through more effective geographic and gender profiling, better management of medicines and identification of prescription anomalies and their impact on consumers  ”

Jon Marshall, Managing Director
“  In one example Inside Info & QlikView streamlined a data process from what was days or weeks, or so complicated it wouldn’t be considered, to seconds and that means a better value proposition for us and our customers  ”

Jon Marshall, Managing Director
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