by Angela Guess

According to a recent press release, “Qlik, a leader in visual analytics, today announced that Qlik Sense®, its modern platform-based approach to business intelligence and analytics, has received the Ventana Research 2016 Technology Innovation Award in the Business Intelligence category. These Awards, presented annually, distinguish pioneers that have developed clear visionary and transformative technology that drive better efficiency and productivity as well as the outcomes and performance of an organisation.”

The release goes on, “Built on a fully integrated, simple, and intuitive visual analytics platform and powered by the patented QIX Associative Indexing Engine, Qlik Sense combines enterprise readiness and governance with best-in-class visualisation and data preparation capabilities.  This breadth and depth allows organisations to meet the broadest range of BI use cases from a single platform.  This latest recognition comes on the heels of Qlik Sense being ranked first by users in 13 categories in its debut in BARC BI Survey 16, the industry’s largest independent global survey of BI users.”

Anthony Deighton, Qlik CTO and SVP of Products, noted, “We are thrilled to receive this recognition for Qlik Sense. Qlik built the category for user-driven, self-service BI, and we continued that leadership when we rethought what the modern BI space would need into the future and built Qlik Sense.  Customers love that we developed it around our industry-leading engine that preserves that Qlik magic of being able to instantly ask any question in your data… We’ve hit an exciting point in the next phase of our industry leadership with the momentum of Qlik Sense being appreciated by organisations who can sample it in the Cloud for a department or consider it the centerpiece of their enterprise-wide BI deployment.”

Read more at PR Wire.

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