QlikView & Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant for 2011 BI Platform Magic Quadrant

31 January 2011 – Gartner released today its 2011 Business Intelligence Platform Magic Quadrant Report.  Featuring both QlikView and Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant based on both completeness of vision and ability to execute.  Gartner Magic Quadrants provide a snapshot of how vendors perform in a market segment with the goal of helping end users make better informed decisions about companies they may be looking to partner with, or whose services or products they may want to purchase.

Gartner talk about a portfolio approach required to take into account the needs of business users, citing QlikView as ‘the poster child for a new end-user driven approach to BI,” referring to this type of BI as “Data Discovery”.  While Microsoft rated again the highest in terms of ability to execute with customers rating Microsoft above average on key customer satisfaction metrics including ‘sales’, ‘customer experience’ and ‘achievement of business benefits’. 

To view the full Gartner report click here.

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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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