QlikView for iPad supports native iPad functionality to provide a powerful, intuitive and interactive mobile business intelligence experience. Its iPad-specific features include:

• Multi-Touch Analytics – Touch, pinch or swipe to select data points.
• Coverflow – Flip through relevant business analysis, make a new selection and those changes are instantly reflected throughout.
• High-Definition Graphics – View the sharpest visualizations at native iPad screen resolutions.
• Portrait and Widescreen Support – Uses iPad’s accelerometer to auto-sense the device’s orientation and shifts QlikView’s interface to match.
• GPS-enabled (iPad 3G only) – Automatically detect geographic location to select localized information such as customer sales, service or inventory data as users approach a customer or supplier facility.
• Integrated Analytics Sharing – Touch the email button on the upper-right of any screen view and share your analyses with anyone.

Highlights also include:

• Associative Search – Touch the search box, enter a few letters of your search criteria and watch a comprehensive search selection instantly appear. Select your search word or phrase, and then tap anywhere in the results on the screen to see connections and relationships between data residing in different applications, systems, organizations, and regions.
• All Your Data – QlikView for iPad can combine data from any number of sources with high performance. This provides the fastest way to gain insight into how different parts of a business relate. QlikView achieves this by associating data from any source, such as: transactional systems like Oracle, SAP, salesforce.com; traditional data warehouses like Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion; and databases like SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL.
• Advanced Visualization – QlikView for iPad gives users the ability to see information in charts, graphs and tables, as well as the ability to interact with those visual analytics in real time. Everything in QlikView for iPad can be tapped, and every touch provides a new view of the underlying data instantly.
• Security – Comprehensive access controls means QlikView for iPad users only see what they are authorized to view.

The value of interactive, dynamic analytics delivered with a few screen taps can’t be underestimated.

QlikView for iPad is the latest member of QlikView’s comprehensive family of mobile products. QlikView is available for free, as a native mobile application for all QlikView customers. In addition to the iPad, QlikView supports the most popular consumer mobile platforms and devices, such as:

• Apple iPhone 3GS, 3G, original iPhone, and iPod Touch
• Android phones, including: HTC Hero, HTC Magic, Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Droid, Nexus One, Acer Liquid, and Sony Ericsson X10
• Java Mobile Client-based phones, including: the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Storm, and Nokia S60

QlikView pioneered in-memory business intelligence and continues to offer a totally different approach to business intelligence that delivers ease of use and rapid deployment that speeds time to critical business answers.  Inside Info is the largest and most experienced QlikView business intelligence solution provider in Australia.

Gartner comments on the evolution of business intelligence in the report: “Organisations are rapidly embracing the idea of providing data to end users and empowering them with an ability to navigate and visualize the data in a “surf and save” mode as an alternative to a report-only architecture. Threatened by the success of these vendors (and adding to their credibility), traditional BI platform vendors are attempting to imitate them with easy-to-use interactive visualization alternatives often incorporating in-memory technology. This imitation, coupled with a growing recognition by user organizations that data discovery tools can be used as full-functioned BI platforms for a broader range of BI platform capabilities and use cases (beyond rapid prototyping), justifies the significant move of these vendors from the Visionaries to the Challengers quadrant.”

Inside Info added 30 direct new customers in 2009 bringing its total to over 100 direct clients, including a signficant win as part of a competitive tender with Catholic Education Office Sydney. During 2009, other direct customer additions included QBE, Wrigley Company, CS Energy, Apparel Group, Hagemeyer Brands, Terex Mining and FoodWorks among others.

Manufacturing and distribution sectors remain the largest contributors to revenue in 2009, with high growth rates noted in retail, pharmaceutical and financial services.

“Sales to retailers jumped by 90% this year,” said Stuart Barnard, Managing Director of Inside Info. “We’re helping Australian retailers understand buying behaviour, keeping shelves stacked with the right product at the right price, giving visibility into operations across each store easily. Retailers can have huge volumes of data with many systems to co-ordinate, we can provide transactional level understanding of that data simply using QlikView.”

The ease-of-use of Inside Info’s QlikView applications and knowledge of how to apply business intelligence fast and well, won through with Inside Info deriving the majority of growth from licenses over service revenues. This encuraged company investsment in a sales office in Victoria and a new sales appointment in 2010.

Inside Info’s QlikView applications were also named among Australia’s 41st most innovative products in the Australian Anthill Smart Company Awards.

“Having introduced QlikView in 2003 to become the largest and most experienced QlikView BI provider in Australia, we’re delighted to announce a strong and successful year again,” said Inside Info’s MD, Stuart Barnard. “Analysis of our 2009 performance and market position tells us that upper mid to large organisations still need local, experienced consultants to deliver affordable business intelligence applications that give operational insights and resolve departmental challenges, fast.”

* Gartner ‘Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2008-2013, 4Q09 Update’ by By Fabrizio Biscotti et al. 3 December 2009.

QlikView is utilised by hundreds of healthcare companies and solution providers worldwide, including Medicalis, whose web-based analytics application allows business and clinical decision makers to improve the quality of diagnostic imaging in the patient care cycle.

“Traditional BI solutions are often too cumbersome, difficult to scale, expensive and slow to deliver value,” said John DeLong, Vice President Product Strategy & Clinical Content, Medicalis. “Leveraging QlikView has enabled us to deliver clinical knowledge in a quick and precise manner so healthcare professionals involved in patient care can make well informed decisions.”

Hundreds of senior IT executives attending the Healthcare Summit completed confidential ballots to select technology providers for the Healthcare IT Innovation Awards after previewing and learning about new technologies and services in private boardroom appointments.

“After years of seeing IT as merely transaction processing and distributing information, CXOs and external influencers now expect IT to be a key differentiator,” said Nancy Hammervik, Senior Vice President, Events, Everything Channel. “We congratulate the winners of the Healthcare IT Innovation awards.”

“IDC’s research has showed that there is a growing trend in Australia and New Zealand towards businesses giving customer facing employees BI tools to access timely and accurate information, to enhance customer experiences and to develop cross-selling opportunities,” said Louise Francis, Senior Market Analyst – Global Retail Insights, IDC.  “As a result IDC expects simple, intuitive applications, such as QlikView, will become increasingly popular with customers, particularly in the mid market.”

An IDC survey sponsored by QlikTech revealed that QlikView customers achieve significantly higher satisfaction with their BI systems than general BI users. When asked to rate their satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 5, 96% of QlikView users indicated the top three levels of satisfaction. This compares very favourably with results from IDC’s 2008 survey (carried out in conjunction with InfoWorld) where 70% of general BI users indicated the top three levels of satisfaction with their BI implementations.  The survey found that QlikView is a BI customer favourite because of its average return on investment (ROI) of 186%[1] and a total cost of ownership (TCO) that is 53%[2] of other BI solutions.

QlikView Attains Highest Customer Loyalty Score in Software Industry
IDC found that the significant success QlikView customers are experiencing has resulted in many of them recommending it to others. Net Promoter score is a key measure of customer loyalty based on the question, “How likely is it that you would recommend a product/service to a friend or colleague?” QlikView ranked higher than the previous leader in the 2009 Net Promoter Score benchmark tests in the “Technology: Computer Software” category according to SatMetrix, the creator of the Net Promoter methodology[3].

Two other reports also found similar results:

• Aberdeen Group named QlikView the sole “Champion” in the 2009 Aberdeen AXIS for BI/Performance Management report, applying its AXIS methodology through a customer-centric assessment tool.   As stated in the report, “QlikTech customers have consistently reported high praise and satisfaction with the company and its products, and are most likely to have achieved value from the purchase of the software for performance management projects. The software interface is known for its intuitiveness and this means that end-users are likely to adapt to its use quickly.”
•  Business Application Research Center ranked QlikView #1 for Ease of Use and Customer Loyalty in its BI Survey 8 – the world’s largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users. QlikView received top honors in Benefits Achieved, Inclination to Buy More and Lowest Consulting Spend.

“These results consistently show that the QlikView customer experience sets a new bar in business intelligence,” said Stuart Barnard, Managing Director at Inside Info, Master Reseller of QlikView in Australia. “One which includes rapid time to value; custom dashboards with Google-like ease of use; minimal professional services; and fast query performance, even on very large data sets.”

[2] IDC White Paper sponsored by QlikTech, “The TCO of BI: The QlikView Customer Experience, Doc # IDCWP16R, October 2009

[3] IDC White Paper sponsored by QlikTech, “Success and Value from BI: The QlikView Customer Experience, Doc # IDCWP16R2, October 2009