QlikTech signs global agreement with Capgemini for business information management

1 Jul 2011

RADNOR, US: QlikTech, a leader in business discovery-user-driven business intelligence has announced a global partnership agreement with Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, to offer its customers added-value services and solutions for the QlikView business discovery platform.

With a proven track record implementing QlikView, the new partnership will extend across Capgemini's Global Business Information Management (BIM) Practice of over 7000 people. This includes its strong capability in India with its BIM Centre of Excellence. To date, Capgemini has hundreds of consultants trained on QlikView with joint client success worldwide - industry leaders as well as research organisation as European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, an international research institute for cutting-edge science with photons.

Looking to invest in solutions, delivery capabilities

Christian Becht, director for Business Information Management at Capgemini said: "As part of our growth strategy for our Global Business Information Management (BIM) Service Line we are continually looking to invest in solutions and delivery capabilities with leading technology partners. We also find that customers are increasingly looking for easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy analytics, which are complementary to the traditional business intelligence solutions they have in place. Through the deployment of QlikView's Business Discovery platform, Capgemini customers will have access to user-driven business intelligence, new governance models and time to market acceleration."

Capgemini has invested in methodologies and accelerators to support the implementation of QlikView in different environments while ensuring efficiency at each stage of the project. Based on its experience of BIM projects, Capgemini has developed specific QlikView usage scenarios and solutions to ensure data-quality when creating QlikView apps. Leveraging its experience with QlikView, Capgemini is building vertical portfolio approaches in the areas such as Production Analytics and Manufacturing Execution Systems.

"Organisations are looking for the type of enterprise class services that Capgemini can offer to implement QlikView in environments with existing business intelligence solutions. QlikView's Business Discovery platform delivers capabilities to empower business users with agility to access information without disrupting current architecture," said Peter McQuade, QlikTech's VP of Global Alliances. "We see Capgemini as a very innovative player in the business discovery market space and this partnership will enable us to combine our joint approaches to create more value for our clients as IT departments strategise and execute to bring business insight into their organisations."

QlikView South Africa

QlikView South Africa is the local representative and distributor for QlikTech. QlikTech's powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution is designed to bridge the gap between traditional business intelligence solutions and standalone office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered allows users to explore information freely rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app-like model, remixability and reassembly, and a social and collaborative experience. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, QlikTech has offices around the world serving more than 19 000 customers in over 100 countries.

For more information, go to www.qlikview.co.za.