QlikView plus Markinson equals one-click retail and wholesale intelligence

Sydney, 22 September, 2009 – Australian retailers and wholesalers are set for state-of-the art inventory, customer and sales intelligence following a new partner appointment by Inside Info, the business analytics specialist.

Inside Info, Australia’s master reseller of the world’s fastest growing business intelligence software QlikView, has appointed specialist partner, Markinson, an Australian provider of enterprise management and point-of-sale software solutions, to extend existing reach into retail and wholesale companies.

Markinson which counts JB Hi-Fi, T2, Haigh Australia and Rexel among its customers, will resell QlikView to provide its customer base with access to powerful and instant visual analysis, dashboards and reporting of stock, sales, financial and marketing data with measurable ROI in just weeks.

QlikView analyses hundreds of millions of cells of data at a transactional level in seconds, irrespective of the number of users, offering Markinson customers a highly scalable business intelligence solution that is simple to use for any employee of wholesale distribution and retail businesses across Australasia.

“We’ve used QlikView to power reporting for our retail management solution, Shopkeeper, for some time and have now taken this to a new level.  QlikView will also be used to complement our MomentumPro enterprise management solution which is why we sought to extend our relationship with QlikView and Inside Info.  Customers can now reap the benefits of one-click analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional BI software,” said Ian Whiting, CEO at Markinson.

“We’re excited to have Markinson as part of our local QlikView partner program,” said Stuart Barnard, Managing Director at Inside Info.  “More than 500 retailers and distributors use QlikView globally because it provides simple access to a rich, interactive  and holistic view of demand and supply metrics and performance.    Sales, inventory and management dashboards can be custom- built and modified in weeks designed to help retailers and wholesalers make faster, more informed decisions.”

About Markinson

Markinson is a privately owned Australian company that provides business software solutions to wholesale distribution and retail businesses across Australasia.  For more than 20 years, Markinson has pioneered a wide range of focused solutions which help customers achieve their business goals. The Company services over 250 customers throughout Australasia. For more information go to www.markinson.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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