QlikTech announced today that its QlikView Connector 4.1 has achieved Powered by SAP NetWeaver status for its integration as an ABAP Add-on with SAP solutions. QlikView Connector enables users to get easy and fast access to data within multiple SAP solution-based systems, as well as from other external data sources, to analyze information seamlessly – and visually – within QlikView, QlikTech’s market-leading business intelligence solution. As an add-on to companies’ SAP solutions, QlikView brings additional value to SAP applications with dynamic analysis and reporting solutions.
“QlikView provides a simple, fast way for customers to get visually compelling analysis of their SAP data,” said Anthony Deighton, Vice President of Marketing at QlikTech. “QlikView Connector Powered by SAP NetWeaver gives customers added assurance of the ease in which they can visualize critical information from SAP solutions using QlikView reporting for fast analysis and decision making.”
QlikTech is leading in a new class of fast, powerful and visual business analysis solutions that are simple to use – empowering individuals to improve corporate performance and drive innovation. QlikView, QlikTech’s flagship product, can be deployed in days, users can be trained in minutes and end users get results instantly to support their decisions.
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has been a QlikView user since early 2006. "QlikView adds significant value to our IT installation. At last, we can gain the insight necessary to make better strategic decisions with information in SAP, and we can do it quickly and with simplicity. QlikView also allows us to combine our SAP data with other data sources and to analyze them dynamically with just a few clicks,” said Michael Neff, CIO of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.
QlikView Connector works as a Read-Only ODBC Driver for quick and easy development of any kind of analytical application within QlikView. It is compatible with most SAP solutions, including SAP R/3, the mySAP ERP application and mySAP Business Suite, and can be used with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence as an option for simple yet sophisticated visual reporting.
Amcor PET Packaging, a leading global packaging company focused on providing PET (polyethylene terephthalate) packaging solutions to the consumer products industry, has been using QlikView for sales analysis of customer and market metrics to achieve their corporate sales and profit growth objectives. “We’ve found QlikView to be easy to use and fast to deploy to our field sales teams, giving them additional insight that’s improving our customer relationships,” said Lee Paree, CIO at Amcor PET Packaging. “QlikView pulls information from our SAP BW component and presents it visually, with the ability to investigate further in the matter of a few clicks.”
The SAP NetWeaver platform powers mySAP Business Suite family of business applications, SAP xApps packaged composite applications and solutions such as QlikView Connector from QlikTech. SAP NetWeaver unifies integration technologies into a single platform and is pre-integrated with business applications, enabling change and reducing the need for custom integration. Third-party ABAP Add-ons like QlikView Connector have passed the syntactic and semantic checks that are part of the SAP ABAP Add-on certification requirements, and receive certification through the SAP Integration and Certification Center.
