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‘Now the economy is showing early signs of recovery, executives are under increasing pressure to deliver a significant return on investment in half the time.’
This statement, made in the 2009 AT&T Road to Growth study, which incorporated interviews with 77 IT executives responsible for strategy and budget allocations in multinational companies, empirically confirms what Matthew Cunneen has observed over recent months. ‘Now the economy is showing early signs of recovery, clients are prioritising investments that demonstrate a very fast return,’ states the managing director of Satsuma Solutions.
Information has become one of the most bankable assets used by Australian organisations to facilitate their recovery and successful growth strategies. Yet it is an asset that is largely inaccessible in many companies. Recent Business Week research reported that 77 per cent of managers surveyed believe they have made bad decisions because they did not have access to accurate information when they needed it.
This is where the value of business intelligence solutions such as QlikView becomes apparent. QlikView is changing the information landscape for businesses and IT departments alike, with its simplicity and rapid time-to-value unifying multiple data sources into one easy-to-use dashboard, complimenting existing traditional BI systems and empowering users to create and implement their own queries, without overburdening IT. ‘The freedom that the QlikView system provides allows IT to focus on other vital activities,’ says Cunneen. ‘Combine this with rapid implementation times, a simple user interface and fast query performance and it’s easy to see why QlikView is gaining global recognition for its fast time-to-value. And with Gartner and the Aberdeen Group singing its praises, you know that this is a system that really delivers.’
Hailed as ‘the most performant BI platform in the market’ by Gartner in Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms (January, 2009), it comes as no surprise that the Aberdeen Group ranks QlikView as the sole ‘champion’ in a field of all BI players and gave it the highest score of all vendors for ‘Value Delivered’ in its Business Development Performance Axis (Q1, 2009).
Certainly, QlikView’s time-to-value performance is impressive, especially when compared with traditional business intelligence systems, which are expensive to implement, overly dependent on the IT department for management and delivery, and unable to provide the information that business managers need in time for them to use that information to make vital business decisions.
In the next generation of business strategy, managers can no longer afford to make reactive business decisions based on information that may be months, or even years, out of date. QlikView’s business intelligence solutions are designed to provide vital and timely business information to decision makers at all levels, across all departments, and with its new ‘in-the-cloud’ capabilities, this information can be delivered anywhere in the world. QlikView’s latest innovation gives organisations the ability to share results via the internet, enabling users to monitor performance and take corrective action immediately, whether they’re in the office, on the road or across the world.
And in an economic climate undergoing a period of rapid change, the ability to make decisions quickly can give an organisation the edge it needs to get ahead of the field and create a position of strength within its industry. Couple this with the efficiencies that are possible when decision makers are able to access current data themselves - freeing up IT resources to focus on other activities, and the result is a dynamic business that has the agility to take advantage of every available opportunity.
If you’d like to find out how QlikView can give your business the information it needs to emerge from economic downturn and deliver an outstanding return on investment, contact Satsuma Solutions today. www.satsumas.com
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