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ecrmguide.com, By Paul Shread, July 16, 2010
The IPO of Qlik Technologies (NASDAQ: QLIK) today showed just how hot the business intelligence (BI) market is.
On a day when major stock indexes plunged nearly 3 percent on slowdown fears and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) fell 7 percent on disappointing quarterly results, Qlik's stock market debut shone.
The company's IPO priced above expectations last night and then traded another 28 percent higher today, raising $112 million for the company in the process.
The business intelligence, analytics and performance management market grew 4 percent to $9.32 billion last year, according to Gartner, even as the rest of the economy shrank by 2.4 percent and equipment and software investment fell 16.6 percent, according to U.S. GDP data.
Qlik fared even better than the rest of the BI market, growing sales by 33 percent last year to $157.4 million. In the first quarter of this year, that growth rate accelerated to 66 percent. The company has been profitable for two years.
Qlik claims a "powerful, easy-to-use business intelligence solution that enables our customers to make better and faster business decisions. Our software platform, QlikView, combines enterprise-class analytics and search functionality with the simplicity and ease-of-use found in office productivity software tools for a broad set of business users," according to an SEC filing from the company.
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