Boehringer Ingelheim Executives Gain Global
Visibility into Key Performance Indicators with
QlikView
Leading German Pharmaceutical Company to useBusiness Intelligence Tool as a Corporate Executive
Dashboard for Global Analysis
July 28, 2010 08:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time
RADNOR, Pa.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Qlik Technologies Inc. (“QlikTech”), a provider of business
intelligence software, today announced that Boehringer Ingelheim, a leading global pharmaceutical company with
more than 41,000 employees, has implemented QlikTech’s innovative analysis and reporting tool QlikView, to
provide its management team actionable insights into global performance trends. The QlikView-powered corporate
executive dashboard allows upper management to analyze large amounts of data from multiple sources in clear and
intuitive graphs. Boehringer Ingelheim plans to deploy QlikView worldwide to provide a global management
information system, delivering significantly greater transparency for all important KPIs (key performance indicators)
through quick and flexible data analysis.
“We started working with QlikView in the financial area, since our initial concern was to clearly present our current
financial performance, which we monitor on a monthly basis,” said Thomas Lippich, project manager, Boehringer
Ingelheim. “With the QlikView corporate executive dashboard, management will be able to better see how product
sales are faring in various countries and regions at a glance. In addition, we would like to make trends and
developments more transparent through access to historical figures.”
Boehringer Ingelheim also utilizes QlikView’s flexibility and ability to process large volumes of data in the controller‘s
office. QlikView’s unique in-memory capabilities perform analytics in the controller’s office in seconds and minutes
that could take other BI tools hours and even days.
The company also plans to build a QlikView-powered ‘visual cockpit’ for its Marketing and Sales division. For
example, Boehrin