2. What does Qlik do?
● Business intelligence software
● Desktop tool: Originally QuikView, now QlikView
● Quality Understanding Interaction Knowledge
3. History
● 1993: Established in Sweden by Bjorn Berg and Staffan
Gestrelius
● 2000: Mans Hultman becomes CEO, shifted focus to BI
● 2005 - Present
○ 2006: Relocates HQ to Radnor, PA
○ 2007: Employs ~1,700 in 24 countries
○ User base increased to ~31,000 in 100 countries
4. Financial Information
● IPO in July 2010
● Currently valued ~$25/share
● Last year Gross Operating Profit $408.6 M
● 3 year Avg Sales Growth 40%
5. What’s hot?
● Named ‘Hot Vendor’ by Ventana Research
● Mobile Business Intelligence
● Both iOS and Web app
○ Can create offline views
○ Consistent interface with the Desktop app
6. Secret Sauce
● Holds data in-memory for multiple users → FAST
● Compresses data to 10% of original size → SCALES
● Sleek and simple UI
8. Prediction
● Exciting Company
○ Aggressive Marketers
○ Quickly Growing
○ Forbes has faith
● Competition
○ Large companies with more financial resources
● Could be bought out by a large competitor