The world’s largest, independent survey of business intelligence and performance management users, BI Survey 12 produced by the Business Application Research Center results is in. QlikView ranked again as the leader overall in visual analysis, innovation, project length and agility, and leader in Data Discovery for mobile BI and affordability.

1. QlikView Ranks First In Visual Analysis, Innovation & Agility In
BI Survey 12
The world’s largest, independent survey of business intelligence and performance management
users, BI Survey 12 produced by the Business Application Research Center results is in. QlikView
ranked again as the leader overall in visual analysis, innovation, project length and agility, and
leader in Data Discovery for mobile BI and affordability.
In continuing to outpace larger rivals in the BI Giants category such as SAP (Business Objects), Oracle
(Hyperion) and IBM (Cognos), QlikView’s #1 ratings include:
Visual Analysis – The Business Discovery platform enables users to conduct searches and interact
with dynamic dashboards and analytics from any device. Customers are more than 50% more
inclined to use QlikView for visual analysis than the weighted average of all major BI product suites
in the BI Survey 12. This is a strong indicator that QlikView is bringing a whole new level of ease of
use, insight, and value to business users.
Innovation – The 11 boasts industry-leading innovations such as social and mobile Business
Discovery. In the survey, customers noted visual analysis and mobile BI as key functionalities that
showcase it’s product innovation.
Project Length – It is flexible development environment enables skilled consultants and users to
quickly build applications without being dependent on time-consuming tasks like data integration or
data modeling.
Agility – QlikView makes it easy for business analysts and BI developers to create purpose-built BI
apps that users can enhance and extend as business needs change. It secures a top ranking in this
category for its short project length and flexibility in building and changing applications.
Among Visual Analysis and Data Discovery vendors, it ranked #1 in four categories:
Cost/Cost Per Seat/Number of Administrators – It shows the best cost Key Performance Indicator
(KPI) of all visual analysis vendors. This KPI takes into account license fees, external implementation
fees and the number of administrators needed in relation to the number of seats purchased.
Mobile BI – QlikView delivers the full power of mobile device – including the associative experience,
interactive analysis, and search. Unlike reporting tools that require power analysts to create data
queries, mobile users define their own views.