GFT Group, a leading IT solutions and services provider in the banking sector, today announced a partnership with QlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in user-driven business intelligence. The partnership builds on GFT’s vast experience of working with financial institutions to help QlikView clients to maximise their enterprise solution across their organisation. With the partnership, GFT’s world-class financial services domain knowledge and platform specialists will help financial institutions streamline their BI roadmap and provide the necessary governance and best practices to ensure they get the most out of their QlikView’s capabilities.

As part of GFT’s QlikView activities, GFT will be the premier sponsor atBusiness Discovery World Tour, QlikTech’s event in London tomorrow. The event will showcase the latest developments in business discovery, the next generation of business intelligence. The QlikView Business Discovery platform revolutionises the way businesses manage and analyse their data by providing a new level of user-driven analysis that far exceeds the limits of traditional business intelligence platforms. With GFT’s powerful financial services IT know-how, competence and skill, clients can ensure they get the most value out of QlikTech’s transformative technology.
Sean Farrington, MD UK & Ireland and Regional Vice President for Northern Europe, QlikTech explains: “QlikView is extremely powerful in unleashing the intelligence within a business and for putting the power of the data into the hands of those that need it, the business users. This relationship is key to establishing QlikView as the defacto standard for business intelligence best practice within banking.”

Christopher Ortiz, Managing Director, GFT UK, said, “QlikView is a cornerstone of the Gartner Magic Quadrant and GFT’s approach is to help clients to benefit from best practices in business intelligence. Based on our almost 15 years’ experience of data management in Investment Banking, we have built up a vast bank of expertise both onshore and nearshore. This specialist team understands not just data, but also how to create intelligence within that platform to drive the maximum value from an organisation’s data today and provide the foundation for its future business intelligence needs.”

GFT’s business intelligence practice provides high-level consultancy and support to CIOs and IT management staff in capital markets organisations. This support includes: platform strategy, design, governance, development excellence, platform management and SL3 maintenance.

GFT’s business intelligence practice has steadily built on the team’s experience within data management, data processing, data warehousing, business intelligence. The QlikView accreditation is a natural complement to the GFT team’s best practices.