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Business intelligence specialist QlikTech has announced an addition to the Sage portfolio: An updated version of its BI snap-in for SalesLogix customers. The company has signed an agreement for Chase International to distribute its I-Reports 2.0 product, which provides real-time reporting for Sage CRM SalesLogix. Some 750 or so companies running SalesLogix in the UK alone, report the QlikTech folks. Said Jason Bissell, QlikTech UK channel manager: “It’s an area where Sage doesn’t have a [directly comparable] offering.”

In the announcement of this “gap filling,” Sage representatives reported that their firm plans to “close the window of opportunity with a new business intelligence product scheduled to be commercially available in the spring and based on code acquired with the purchase of IntelligentApps two years ago.” This product will reportedly represent a new dashboard front-end which can be used to mine data from Sage and non-Sage sources. Sage plans to later make the dashboard its BI front-end to other lines.