01-10-2014

Almawave and Qlik sign an OEM agreement for an integrated Customer Interaction e Data Discovery solution

“Iride BI-Powered by QlikView” will be the ideal complement for Almawave Customers wishing to freely and deeply analyse their data to improve their Customer Experience

Rome and Milan, 1 October 2014 - Almawave, AlmavivA Group innovation technology Company and Qlik® (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in data discovery, are proud to announce the signature of an OEM partnership agreement for the implementation of an integrated solution for data analysis supporting Iride Customer Centric Suite platform. The new “Iride BI – Powered by QlikView®” module will enable Almawave Customer to make the most of collected information and data, by setting up powerful and user-friendly analytics, in order to improve Customer-Enterprise multi-channel Management.

Iride Customer Centric Suite is Almawave proprietary semantic-ontological platform: flexible, complete and innovative, one of a kind, implemented to make Customer Interaction faster and more efficient, as well as ensure a Customer Experience of excellence and a 360° understanding of Customer needs. This latest generation technology enables automated and real-time identification, understanding and elaboration of topics of interest expressed by Customers in natural language over any communication channel (voice, e-mail, mobile phone text, social, etc.), by making interaction quick and straight-forward.

From Almawave and Qlik partnership, Iride users will be able to thoroughly exploit analytical and display potential of QlikView, the Market-leading Data Discovery platform, in order to perform and implement fulfilling and innovative analysis, reporting and dashboards supporting decision-making processes.

“Iride BI – Powered by QlikView” will be offered to Customers as an add-on to Iride Suite modules: Iride One, Iride Voice, Iride Claim, Iride Aware, Iride CRM and Iride.

“We are particularly proud of and satisfied with this agreement, which is enabling us to integrate and strengthen two outstanding quality business tools: Almawave Iride Customer Centric Suite, representing the platform par excellence as far as Speech, Social, CRM and Text Analytics, and QlikView data discovery platform, the unquestioned worldwide leader within user-guided Business Intelligence (BI). Almawave and Qlik now together delivering a unique offering worldwide”, declares Valeria Sandei, Almawave Group CEO.

 “Almawave ‘people-centered’ approach nicely goes along Qlik philosophy to provide business users with self-service analytics to turn them into autonomous and fast decision-making users” comments Rosagrazia Bombini, VP and Managing Director Italy of Qlik. “We are glad QlikView has been chosen to offer Almawave Customers an even more effective and powerful solution. The combination of these two technologies provides with a complete and unprecedented control on any Customer interaction, by supporting Companies improve Customer Satisfaction and achieve a - no doubt - competitive advantage.”