Rentokil Initial partners with Qlik to handle IOT data infestation

Issued by DUO Marketing + Communications for Qlikview
Johannesburg, 26 Jan 2017

Qlik, a leader in visual analytics, announced that Rentokil Initial, one of the largest business services companies in the world, is using the Qlik Sense analytics platform to gain better insights from its product and global company operations data.

Rentokil's partnership with Qlik supports its wider global deployment of new innovative digital pest control products and next-generation services.

Fact sheet

Solution: Qlik Sense

Industry: Pest control

Provider: QlikView

User: Rentokil Initial

Qlik joins Google and PA Consulting Group to execute Rentokil's mission to deliver its customers predictive advice and connected solutions. The cloud-based Qlik Sense platform will be used to provide visualisations of data from Rentokil's Internet of things (IOT) product roll-out, which leverages connected digital devices to deliver new levels of proactive risk management against the threat of pest infestation - for instance, mapping weather patterns with rodent behaviour or tracking swarms of insects as they cross territories.

So far, Rentokil has extended its range of connected rodent control products to over 20 000 digital devices running in 12 countries globally and generating more than three million pieces of data. These IOT units can automatically alert technicians when a rodent is caught, while customers are kept informed through the myRentokil online portal.

Rentokil Initial's Paul Donegan, IT Director, comments: "Qlik's platform will enable Rentokil to gain a new depth of insight from its data and, crucially, empower our front line staff with the latest information and real-time trends, improving productivity. This level of data visualisation will be crucial as the company continues to digitise and extend its IOT services, heralding the future of pest control management."

Qlik's UK&I MD and Country Manager Simon Blunn comments: "Rentokil's innovative use of the IOT to launch a new generation of services is reflective of the possibilities a connected world can bring. Key to the realisation of this potential is an ability to make sense of the increased level of data produced by IOT devices, and putting power in the hands of the employees and customers that need this information. We look forward to our ongoing partnership with Rentokil and helping the company extract further value and see the whole story within its data."

Qlik

Qlik is the leading visual analytics platform and the pioneer of user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and on-premises solutions meets customers' growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics, regardless of where data is located. Customers using Qlik Sense, QlikView and Qlik Cloud gain meaning out of information from multiple sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik does business in more than 100 countries, with over 40 000 customers globally.

QlikView South Africa

QlikView South Africa is the local representative and distributor for Qlik, a leader in visual analytics. Its QlikView Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional BI solutions and inadequate spreadsheet applications. The in-memory associative search technology QlikTech pioneered created the self-service BI category, allowing users to explore information freely rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. Appropriate from SME to the largest global enterprise, QlikView's self-service analysis can be deployed with data governance in days or weeks. The QlikView Business Discovery platform's app-driven model works with existing BI solutions, offering an immersive mobile and social, collaborative experience. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik does business in more than 100 countries with over 40 000 customers globally. For more information, please visit www.qlikview.co.za.

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