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Retalix Integrates QlikView to Provide Retailers and Distributors With World-Class Business Analytics
Monday January 2, 3:00 am ET

LUND, Sweden & RA'ANANA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 2, 2006--Retalix® Ltd. (NASDAQ: RTLX - News), a leading provider of integrated enterprise-wide software solutions for food retailers and distributors, and QlikTech today jointly announced their formation of an OEM partnership. Retalix will power its Retalix InSync Analyzer(TM) Business Intelligence application with QlikTech's QlikView engine.

The combination of Retalix's expertise in retailing and distribution with the innovative analytics technology from QlikTech creates a world-class analytics applications suite for retailers and distributors, improving their ability to gather, store, analyze, and access important data for making better business decisions.

Retalix InSync is a state-of-the-art, web-based portfolio of synchronized software applications, especially designed and developed to meet the requirements of retailers and distributors in the grocery and foodservice industries. These applications automate essential retailing, distribution, and supply chain operations, which enable users to increase operating efficiencies, while improving customer acquisition, retention, and profitability.

QlikTech's flagship product, QlikView, is a complete software suite for business analysis. It is quick-to-deploy, easy-to-learn, and easy-to-use. QlikView utilizes a single architecture that covers all types of analysis and reporting needs for all organizations. QlikView's patented technology never restricts the end user in the pursuit of knowledge hidden in operational system data. QlikView easily scales to meet the needs of any organization. QlikView is revolutionary and introduces new rules in business analysis.

"We chose QlikView as Retalix InSync Analyzer's analytic engine to leverage QlikView's tremendous flexibility and ease of implementation and use to satisfy our customers' Business Intelligence needs. This collaboration brings us one step closer to realizing fully our vision of Synchronized Retail and Distribution, which employs a highly flexible and customizable architecture, so that customers can capture the full benefits of their investments in modernizing IT systems," says Gil Roth, Vice President, Analytics and Optimization Solutions, at Retalix Ltd.

"With this deal we are taking yet another step in our Strategic OEM Program to embed our QlikView platform in best of breed products and companies. QlikTech looks forward to working closely with Retalix, given its in-depth industry knowledge and excellent market reputation," says Peter Sherman, Vice President Business Development at QlikTech International AB. "This partnership is a testament to QlikTech's success in working closely with software vendors globally to open up new channels for the QlikView analytics platform."

QlikTech and Retalix are both confident that Retalix customers will soon see the benefits of this new relationship in the form of a powerful analytics tool to run and optimize their business.

About QlikTech

QlikTech is dedicated to simplifying analysis for everyone. QlikTech's game-changing QlikView application is dramatically easier to deploy and use, inspiring fervent user adoption by business professionals who require it to run their organizations. QlikTech's patented technology allows instant, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low-cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of highly sophisticated analytic applications in days. QlikView's click-driven, visually interactive interface allows users to discover unanticipated insights hidden in operational systems with virtually no end user training. QlikView has over 126,500 users at 2,486 customers in 58 countries. In addition to hundreds of small and midsized companies, QlikTech's customers include large corporations such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Top Flite, 3M, Stanley and The Campbell Soup Company. QlikTech is privately held and venture backed by Accel Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Industrifonden. Founded in Sweden, QlikTech has subsidiaries in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Scandinavia, and over 100 partners across the world.

For more information on QlikView, please call [phone] or visit www.qliktech.com.

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