City of Malmo Selects QlikTech's Business Intelligence Software For its Power and Flexibility; QlikView Beats out Thirteen Competitors in Detailed Evaluation.Business Editors RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2002 QlikTech Inc., a provider of powerful and rapidly deployable business intelligence applications, today announced that its flagship QlikView suite was selected by the City of Malmo, Sweden, after a detailed evaluation of 14 business intelligence (BI) solutions. The evaluated solutions ranged from custom applications to off-the-shelf software from vendors including SAS Institute SAS Institute Inc., headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig. , SAP (MySAP Business Intelligence), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (D2 OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. Server), ProClarity, Business Objects, and Brio (Brio Technology, Palo Alto, CA, www.brio.com) A software company founded in 1989 and acquired by Hyperion Solutions Corporation in 2003 that specialized in enterprise analysis and reporting programs that run on several platforms. (Brio Intelligence). As a result of the extensive review the City of Malmo awarded the contract to QlikTech. "Large, public organizations and local governments in Europe and the US have been realizing the value of implementing analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. to measure and track performance," commented Bob Moran, Vice President and Managing Director, Data Knowledge and Analytics, the Aberdeen Group. "It is noteworthy, but not surprising, that QlikTech beat much larger competitors after a very thorough evaluation." According to the City of Malmo's project and reference group responsible for the evaluation, QlikView was selected because it was "the most user friendly and flexible BI solution, and the alternative with the greatest potential for providing advanced users with powerful analysis capabilities." "We are very pleased to come out as number one in such a thorough evaluation," said Chris Berg, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of QlikTech Inc. "Since cost and ease-of use were factors, we believe that this will convince other public sector organizations that business intelligence can deliver real benefits without being costly, difficult to use, or cumbersome to implement." QlikView's innovative software architecture eliminates the most onerous tasks in BI implementations such as building data warehouses, data marts, and OLAP cubes yet allows customers to analyze data from multiple sources. In addition, QlikView's unique design enables full deployments in a matter of days rather than the customary weeks or months, resulting in greater flexibility, quicker ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , and lower cost of ownership for companies. About QlikTech QlikTech is dedicated to delivering on the untapped potential of business intelligence by providing powerful yet easy-to-use software for interactive data analysis, enabling companies and their management to effectively and proactively monitor, manage and optimize their business. QlikTech's flagship product, QlikView, breaks down the traditional barriers of business intelligence by simplifying the way companies access and analyze crucial business information through its patented Associative Query Logic (AQL (language) AQL - A picture query language, extension of APL. ["AQL: A Relational Database Management System and Its Geographical Applications", F. Antonacci et al, in Database Techniques for Pictorial Applications, A. Blaser ed, pp. 569-599]. ) technology. QlikView's users include such diverse companies as Siemens, Ericsson, IKEA IKEA Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd (Swedish home furnishings retailer founder's initials and location) , Sara Lee, and Spalding. QlikTech is privately held and was founded in Sweden in 1993. QlikTech Inc. is headquartered in Raleigh, NC. For more information, please call 1-888-828-9768 or visit http://www.qliktechinc.com. QlikTech, QlikView, and AQL are trademarks of QlikTech International AB. 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