RALEIGH, NC & OMAHA, NE --(BUSINESS WIRE)--, March 31, 2005 -
QlikTech Inc., a leading provider of powerful and rapidly deployable business intelligence, analysis, and reporting applications, today announced that it has teamed up with DMSi Software, a trusted supplier of business management solutions for lumber wholesalers and building material distributors, to introduce BInformed, a unique business intelligence solution for the building materials industry. Powered by QlikTech's QlikView application, BInformed provides DMSi customers with fast and easy-to-use analysis of critical business information.
BInformed was designed to enhance DMSi Software's Agility application, a Windows®-based solution for building material distributors and lumber wholesalers. This powerful application designed strictly for Agility customers utilizes QlikTech's patented technology to give users the analytical tools needed to instantly gather, disseminate, and analyze critical business data. With BInformed, users have instant access to key business indicators and record-level detail, which leads to timely, informed decisions, and offers users a competitive advantage over companies that rely on cumbersome reports and spreadsheets for business analysis.
"By partnering with QlikTech to offer BInformed as an add-on to our already successful Agility application, we are able to continue to deliver innovative business solutions to our customers that allow them to achieve superior efficiency and profitability," said Rick Olejnik, DMSi Software's vice president of Milwaukee operations. "QlikView is the ideal platform on which to develop a compelling business analysis solution for our customers; it is fast, easy-to-use, and extremely powerful. It's a game changing offering."
Distribution companies such as Arctic Builders of Anchorage, Alaska are already seeing the benefits of using BInformed. By adding BInformed to their use of Agility, their users are able to review sales force metrics, new product orders, and identify business operation issues. BInformed has enabled Arctic Builders to interact with important data quickly and easily, giving them a competitive advantage. "With BInformed, what used to take hours or more now takes minutes," said Jeff Wasson, system manager for Arctic Builders. "For managers to do their jobs well, they need accurate information quickly. BInformed gives us a macro view of our business data in virtually minutes, and allows us to make the proactive decisions required to run our business more efficiently and cost-effectively," added Wasson.
BInformed includes three analysis applications that were designed around the large number of products and high volume transactional data that building materials distributors encounter each day; BInformed Sales Analysis, BInformed Accounts Receivable Analysis, and BInformed Inventory Analysis. Using the QlikView platform, DMSi Software was able to develop these applications quickly, and provide a visually compelling, easy-to-use interface, which requires virtually no training for end users. In addition to the applications provided, the QlikView platform allows customers to quickly and easily build custom BInformed applications.
"QlikTech offers a completely new approach to business intelligence, one focused on delivering value to customers quickly and efficiently," said Rick Pitts, president and CEO of QlikTech's North American operations. "We are thrilled to partner with DMSi Software to offer their customers a one-two punch -- highly scalable and powerful analysis that is easy to use and fast to deploy," added Pitts.
About QlikTech
QlikTech is dedicated to simplifying business analysis. QlikTech's game-changing QlikView application is dramatically easier to deploy and use, inspiring fervent user adoption by business professionals who require it to run their organizations. QlikTech's patented technology allows instant, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of highly sophisticated analytic applications in days. QlikView's click driven, visually interactive interface allows users to discover unanticipated insights hidden in operational systems with virtually no end-user training. QlikView has over 90,000 users at 1,500 customers in over 40 countries. In addition to hundreds of small and midsized companies, QlikTech's customers include large corporations such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Top Flite, 3M, and The Campbell Soup Company. QlikTech is privately held and venture backed by Accel Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Industrifonden. Founded in Sweden, QlikTech has subsidiaries in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Scandinavia, and over 100 partners across the world. For more information visit www.qliktech.com
About DMSi Software
For nearly 30 years, DMSi software has been the leading business management solution for building product distributors and lumber wholesalers. More than 300 of North America's top suppliers use DMSi software to efficiently manage daily activities in nearly 1,000 distribution yards, warehouses and offices. For more information on DMSi software solutions, call 402.330.6620 or visit www.dmsi.com
