About QlikView^®

QlikView® has been described by Time Magazine as: “making search much more like your brain – and applying it to business analysis ”.  This is what has transformed QlikTech into one of the hotter Business Intelligence software companies around. The firm's QlikView® program lets users search intuitively across databases and quickly displays information in charts and graphs.

“Last year, not exactly a joyride for most companies, QlikTech's revenues grew 50%, to $120 million, and it expects similar growth in 2009. While most businesses have been shedding workers to reduce costs, the Radnor, Pa., firm added 160 new employees in 2008, a 50% increase from the previous year. Its almost as if QlikTech is living in a different economy – indeed in a different tech sector.
And in a way, it is”. High praise indeed from one of the world’s leading journals.

QlikView® lets users decide what data they want to collect, rather than the drill-down approach of an information hierarchy. No computer can organise data this way, because most software is developed from hardware, making it a slave to linear application. The idea is that by replicating some of the ways your brain works, QlikView® can help users find what they need much more quickly. The firm calls it "the time to value”, which is what people focus on. Due to the QlikView® brain-like design, a further plus is that learning the program requires almost no training.

QlikTech was founded in Sweden in 1993 as a programming consultancy. An assignment to develop a better way to present multidimensional data led to the realisation that such a tool could be valuable in lots of places.

Time Magazine cites one of the more unusual applications of QlikView®: “one of QlikTech's early test cases was at a Swedish hospital, where a trauma team used QlikView® to figure out treatment for a man severely injured by a streetcar. By using the program to quickly tap into 17 different data systems (X-rays, labs, insurance, etc.), doctors were able to make a decision far more quickly than they could have in the past”.

Most QlikView® users are after more prosaic information, such as sales, where the best prospects are, budget achievements and customer relationship management. QlikView® enables literally thousands of users to access billions of records, however any company can get started with only five licences and grow from there.