Read a Gartner case study on leading packaging company Amcor Australasia and how they implemented an Inside Info QlikView business intelligence solution company-wide on top of SAP BW that tracks profit margins down to the invoice level. The new system supports a strategic shift from driving down costs to expanding profit margins with a focus on the customer across all business areas.

This document presents a global view of Gartner's opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI) applications.

According to Gartner, “…based on the research conducted for this report and interactions with Gartner customers over the year, there is significant, if not euphoric, satisfaction with, and accelerated interest in, pure-play BI platforms. This is particularly true for smaller, innovative vendors filling needs left unmet by the larger vendors.”

“Vendors are judged on their ability and success in making their vision a market reality. In addition to the opinions of Gartner’s analysts, the scores and commentary in this document are based on three sources: customer perceptions of each vendor’s strengths and challenges derived from BI-related inquiries with Gartner; an online survey of vendor customers conducted in late 2009 yielding 897 responses; and a vendor-completed questionnaire about the vendor’s BI strategy and operations.”

This IDC 2009 whitepaper surveyed over 800 QlikView users globally and evaluates the time to value and ROI of business intelligence projects for QlikView customers. Learn about four main areas of ROI and the extent customers have enhanced revenues, cash flows, business agility, and reduced costs to achieve an average ROI of 186%.

This IDC 2009 whitepaper surveyed over 800 QlikView users globally and found that QlikView has a total cost of ownership 53% of other business intelligence solutions.

This IDC 2009 whitepaper surveyed over 800 QlikView users globally and found that QlikView customers have double the level of customer satisfaction compared to other BI vendors and have a total cost of ownership more than half of alternative BI solutions.

This 2009 Aberdeen Report reviewed over 12 BI vendors to help organisations know the strengths and weaknesses of each. QlikView was the only ‘Champion’ in the bunch.

Read a summary of the Business Application Research Centre’s survey of BI users – the world’s largest independent survey of business intelligence and performance management users. QlikView was rated number one for ease of use and customer loyalty. QlikView also scored best in terms of query response speed, lowest consulting spend and user intentions to buy more licenses.

This Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine Report talks about three effective tactics to reduce revenue leaks like price waterfall analysis and how manufacturers are putting these steps into action.

This paper by QlikTech provides useful recommendations on how to navigate, survive and even thrive when times are tough.

This whitepaper by QlikTech explores how QlikView can be used to increase the value of SAP with quick, flexible, ad hoc analysis.

Companies have spent millions automating their business processes, but lack capabilities to fully leverage their wealth of data contained in SAP. ABAP queries, SAP BW and module reports are difficult to use. OLAP based Business Intelligence (BI) is complex and predicated on an “all SAP” cube structure. QlikView in-memory analysis, with the specially designed QlikView Connector powered by SAP NetWeaver®, enables SAP users to perform quick, flexible, visual, ad hoc analysis and reporting, which can include combining data from external non-SAP sources. Using QlikView, companies complement their centralised SAP reporting capabilities with instant user-driven visibility into business processes, allowing SAP-based decision making at the speed of business.

Aberdeen’s Business Intelligence and Performance Management AXIS report provides:

• Best in class performance evaluations of vendors based on KPI’s from Aberdeen’s benchmark studies
• An assessment of each vendor’s market readiness determined by over 250 evaluation criteria

This report is intended to help facilitate an understanding and selection of business intelligence and performance management solutions for end user organisations.

A paper prepared by IDC

Today, only 15% of management-level decision makers are confident that their reports or dashboards deliver relevant data to the right people at the right time.  There is a growing demand amongst business users for flexible adhoc analysis that will increasingly put pressure on IT departments to deliver to end-user requirements. This whitepaper by IDC discusses developments in the BI software market with specific focus on query and reporting software, in particular how to address this growing trend. IDC examines how QlikTech addresses the need for self-service query, reporting and ad hoc analytics, without the additional costs and development efforts needed for traditional BI tools such as OLAP.

A paper prepared by QlikTech International

Start with a simple proposition - that everyone in your company can do their job better if they make decisions based on actual information rather than best guesses or how-we-did-it-last-year.

Too often the promise of business intelligence has not been fulfilled; this paper describes how QlikView addresses this problem compared to traditional business intelligence vendors.  QlikView is delivered in 1/4 time, at 1/2 the cost, with twice the value.

A paper prepared by Inside Info

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for understanding the unique BI needs of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within the Australian market. It also shows the fundamental shortcomings in the current approach as the BI tools servicing this market are typically built for the needs of larger organisations.

Critical factors for delivering successful BI solutions in the SME market are discussed.  In particular, addressing how to align business and IT, provide value in the project early, reduce TCO through integration and less infrastructure, improve speed of implementation, achieve flexibility and deliver ease of use.  By doing so, SMEs can significantly improve the quality of their business analytics and reporting initiatives.

A paper prepared by QlikTech International

The choices available to companies looking to add business intelligence, reporting and analysis to their operations is overwhelming.  To cut through the clutter and streamline the decision-making process, most companies build a short-list of preferred vendors based on a set of criteria.  This paper describes the key metrics that companies should be sure to include in their vendor evaluation process for business intelligence, reporting and analysis solutions.

A performance paper prepared by QlikTech International

This whitepaper showcases the performance and scale of the powerful combination of QlikView - game-changing, lower cost, faster to deploy and easiest to use analytic solutions - with the unprecedented speeds & scale of HP Integrity and ProLiant 64-bit Servers.  For business users this means deeper and broader analysis for faster and better decisions than ever before.  For technical professionals, these solutions exploit multi-processor, 64-bit hardware for more efficient computing resources - saving computer power for the most complex analyses.