Qlik®, (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in data discovery, today announced that customer Matthew James, President and CEO of Purity Life Health Products LP, will receive the 2014 Ventana Research Technology Leader Award in the category of “Overall Business Technology Innovation” for the company’s use of QlikView®.

A Qlik customer since 2009, Purity Life is Canada's leading distributor of natural health products including dietary supplements, vitamins, natural body care, earth friendly household goods and natural health food products. The company supplies products to more than 7,000 stores across Canada, including health food stores and pharmacies.

In order to stay competitive, Purity Life needed to move away from the cumbersome process previously used to extract data from its legacy systems and make data more accessible across the organization. In just two days the organization had QlikView up and running and the sales team gained immediate access to customer data to drive sales performance. Following that initial deployment QlikView was rolled out to finance, IT, customer service and the executive leadership team, dramatically increasing Purity Life’s visibility into its data to help improve profitability and increase efficiencies. Armed with insights, employees were able to identify customer purchasing trends, better manage vendors, streamline the supply chain and even prevent inaccuracies within finance and purchasing.

“Purity Life’s utilization of QlikView exemplifies how organizations can successfully leverage data to improve business performance,” said Scott Jennings, Director of Market Development, Retail and Services at Qlik. “By striving to be continuously innovative and take a data centric approach, Matthew has enabled his teams to uncover actionable insights that help positively impact the bottom line. We are thrilled to see Matthew recognized for this accomplishment.”

The Ventana Research Technology Leadership Awards are presented annually to business and IT leaders who are using technologies and applying best practices to provide the best possible outcomes in productivity, performance and support of an organization’s goals and objectives. The awards recognize pioneering leaders and organizations that embrace technology to drive change and increase value for organizations across the world. As the largest business and technology leadership awards program in the industry, Ventana Research’s Business Technology Leadership Awards cover 27 categories spanning from big data to mobile technology to CIO and CFO awards.

To learn more about the awards, visit http://www.ventanaresearch.com/LeadershipAwards/.

"The Technology Leadership Awards are the most prestigious annual industry awards today that acknowledge and honor individuals and organizations for their accomplishments using technology to deliver the best value in achieving specific goals and objectives," said Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer of Ventana Research. "As a Technology Leadership Award winner Purity Life’s Matthew James has proven his ability to go the extra mile and advance the use of technology through best practices and leadership."

The 2014 Ventana Research Technology Leadership Awards recipients will be recognized during the Technology Leadership Awards Ceremony at the 2014 Ventana Research Summit on Oct. 22, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame, California.

To learn more about Qlik and its thousands of customers worldwide, visit http://www.qlik.com/.

About Qlik

Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in data discovery delivering intuitive solutions for self-service data visualization and guided analytics. Approximately 33,000 customers rely on Qlik solutions to gain meaning out of information from varied sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik has offices around the world with more than 1700 partners covering more than 100 countries.

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