QlikTech, which provides technology allowing users to analyze and query large amounts of data without having to aggregate it in a data warehouse, announced QlikView for Communities, a new licensing option for its QlikView analysis tool. The new pricing model will provide unlimited user access for a flat rate.

The move is designed to allow companies to extend analysis and reporting to large numbers of customers and partners with little training required, said Anthony Deighton, vice president of marketing for the Radnor, Pa.-based company. He declined to provide pricing details.

"We see this as most appropriate for solving the business problem of how to get compelling analysis out in front of your customers and partners," Deighton said. "We take the user issue off the table and simply talk about how many applications you want to roll out."

Michael Schanker, director of marketing at Zyme Solutions Inc., said his company plans to take advantage of the new licensing model. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Zyme, which takes channel sales data from its clients in the high-tech field and cleanses and aggregates it, uses QlikView to provide reporting and analysis of that data to clients over the Web. While those clients have a core group of power users who access QlikView daily, they often have a much larger group of users who want to access the analyses occasionally.

"People assume whatever reporting or BI tool they have will be expensive, and they are used to the notion that it is restricted to a certain number of users," Schanker said. "We don't want to ask our customers how many people will be using it each month. They don't want [their costs] to fluctuate because 20 more people access the channel data."