QlikView Overview

QlikView is a new kind of Business Intelligence platform that’s driving spectacular results for over 15,000 companies across 100 countries.  So simple and intuitive to use, it takes just minutes to learn – and delivers industrial strength power to meet the largest enterprise requirements. QlikView is a single integrated BI platform that covers: reporting; monitoring; dashboards and analysis; combining data extraction (ETL); data storage; an engine for multi-dimensional analysis and process automation; data security; an end-user interface; and multiple platforms (fat client, thin client and web) all in one affordable product.

QlikView’s simplicity lets anyone easily consolidate, search, visualise, and analyse all their data for unprecedented business insight.  Serving up answers in an instant, on screen, without having to wait around for any report. It’s about having 1-click access to visually rich, interactive dashboards to transactional level detail that you can build quickly and modify easily.

Inside Info pioneered QlikView in Australia, launching the product here in 2003 and is the largest and most experienced end-to-end QlikView solutions provider responsible for the majority of enterprise-class deployments locally.

Gets Results

QlikView is the world’s fastest growing BI software (IDC). QlikView is recognised by IDC and customers as having the highest levels of customer satisfaction at 96%, providing a 186% return on investment with a total cost of ownership 53% less than other BI solutions.  In fact, in the recent BI Survey 9, the world’s largest independent survey of BI users, QlikView leads in ease of use, customer loyalty and fast query performance. 

Simple, Visual, Interactive

Users want to visualise and interact with all of their information through any dimension in one application. Traditional disk-based tools create a proliferation of cubes and views to support different aspects of the same data leading to confusion, errors, and administrative overhead. QlikView’s visual design elements provide the flexibility to bring multiple viewpoints into one, simplifying the end user experience and accelerating business value.

As a result, IDC found QlikView users report 54% less time accessing information and 51% less time analysing it.

Associative Search Empowers End Users

QlikView allows users to search and interact with their data in the same way they think - associatively. Users can instantly see connections and relationships between data residing in different applications, systems, organisations, and regions, all by themselves.  End users benefit from not being trapped by pre-calculated hierarchical structures because all data is held in-memory and calculations are made when requested and not prior. Since data does not have to be aggregated, users can analyse the entire data volume down to the transaction level. For instance, a car dealership chain could load maintenance data and vehicle lease trade-in history data into the QlikView in-memory solution regardless of where it is and instantly see relationships between maintenance records, lease trade-in timelines and car value, allowing them to predict which customers are likely to trade-in leases, and which customers are most profitable. 

QlikView’s Associative Search is powered by patented in-memory architecture.  With QlikView, all your data — from virtually any source — is loaded in memory and available for instant, real-time analysis with a few clicks providing fast query responses (even on extremely large data sets analysed by multiple concurrent users), flexibility, ease-of-use and visually interactive user interface that associative analysis requires.

Fast to Develop, Improving IT Efficiency

QlikView delivers value fast for organisations. According to IDC 44% of 800 QlikView users surveyed around the globe were deployed in 1 month with 77% deployed within 3 months.

QlikView also allows unlimited dimensions and measures to be modified in seconds, giving flexibility to adapt as the business grows. 

Changes to data – i.e. incorporating a new table or a new column is simple, and would form part of the normal ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) process, which would then automatically create the necessary association with the old data. 

New Data Models, depending on the availability of the data and complexity of the analytical application, could take between 1 and 15 days to develop and deploy into production.  We often find QlikView applications can replace hundreds of reports and cubes, reducing IT support for reporting by up to 90% (IDC).

QlikView a Leader in Gartner 2011 BI Quadrant

“  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