QlikView Aims for Oracle with iPhone Business Intelligence Application

by Yves Neidlinger on 21/04/09 at 11:07 pm

Yves Neidlinger is a technologist and a social media and marketing consultant. He is the National Channel Manager for Navara and the founder and Editor in Chief of iPhoneCTO.

It seems that every industry has their own David and Goliath. QlikTech is clearly gunning for Oracle with their latest offering, QlikView for iPhone. As the fastest growing Business Intelligence vendor for the past three years, QlikTech’s iPhone app is one upping Oracle by touting a product that is more flexible and feature rich than its nemeses’ and one that takes advantage of iPhone’s unique capabilities including:

Interactive – click through line items on a list box or chart to get to answers, going deep into regional or product data.

Coverflow – flip through relevant business analysis, make a new selection and those changes are instantly reflected throughout.

GPS – automatically delivers local customer sales, service or inventory data as reps approach a customer or supplier facility.

Additional Features – Search, Bookmark, Shake to Erase, Landscape and Multi-Touch viewing.

QlikTech also deserves kudos for giving users the ability to actually try out the application before purchasing. For enterprise applications in particular, it’s difficult to demo them because it requires server side software and a license for the mobile client to function. Salesforce for iPhone is a perfect example. QlikTech has addressed this issue by providing access to a demo server with test data. A user simply downloads and installs the iPhone app and it will connect to the demo server that has been set up. Voila, instant real-live demo.

If your company uses an ERP system and needs business intelligence data on mobile devices, QlikView is a good alternative to Oracle and may meet your requirements. Coming to market almost a year after Oracle has given them ample time to develop a compelling product that will give companies yet another reason to seriously consider iPhone as an enterprise device.

Click here for more information on QlikView for iPhone or visit the iTunes App Store.