Awards recognize pioneering vendors that contribute advancements in technology that drive change and increased value for organizations
October 25, 2016
Radnor, PA – Qlik®, a leader in visual analytics, today announced that Qlik Sense®, its modern platform-based approach to business intelligence and analytics, has received the Ventana Research 2016 Technology Innovation Award in the Business Intelligence category. These Awards, presented annually, distinguish pioneers that have developed clear visionary and transformative technology that drive better efficiency and productivity as well as the outcomes and performance of an organization.
Built on a fully integrated, simple, and intuitive visual analytics platform and powered by the patented QIX Associative Indexing Engine, Qlik Sense combines enterprise readiness and governance with best-in-class visualization and data preparation capabilities.This breadth and depth allows organizations to meet the broadest range of BI use cases from a single platform. This latest recognition comes on the heels of Qlik Sense being ranked first by users in 13 categories in its debut in BARC BI Survey 16, the industry’s largest independent global survey of BI users.
“We are thrilled to receive this recognition for Qlik Sense. Qlik built the category for user-driven, self-service BI, and we continued that leadership when we rethought what the modern BI space would need into the future and built Qlik Sense. Customers love that we developed it around our industry-leading engine that preserves that Qlik magic of being able to instantly ask any question in your data,” said Anthony Deighton, Qlik CTO and SVP of Products. “We’ve hit an exciting point in the next phase of our industry leadership with the momentum of Qlik Sense being appreciated by organizations who can sample it in the Cloud for a department or consider it the centerpiece of their enterprise-wide BI deployment.”
“We selected Qlik Sense as an award winner for its flexible approach that supports various technology directions for analytics including cloud-based deployments and embedded application-oriented approaches that our research shows the market requires,” said David Menninger, Senior Vice President and Research Director for Ventana Research. “Qlik Sense brings an innovative approach to the broader analytic experience to streamline analysis and also ensure that it is easily shared with others in the enterprise.”
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About Qlik
Qlik® is the leading visual analytics platform and the pioneer of user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and on-premise solutions meets customers’ growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics, regardless of where data is located. Customers using Qlik Sense®, QlikView® and Qlik Cloud®, gain meaning out of information from multiple sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik does business in more than 100 countries with over 40,000 customers globally.