QlikTech Signs Global Agreement with Capgemini For Business Information Management

Online, July 1, 2011 (Newswire.com) - QlikTech (Nasdaq: QLIK) a leader in Business Discovery - user-driven Business Intelligence today 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 7,000 people. This includes its strong capability in India with its BIM Center of Excellence. To date, Capgemini has hundreds of consultants trained on QlikView with joint client success worldwide -- industry leaders as well as research organization as European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, an international research institute for cutting-edge science with photons.

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.

"Organizations 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 strategize and execute to bring business insight to their organizations."