QlikTech, with its disruptive technology and business model, seems to have found a market niche in the mid-market business-to-business software segment. The big 5 market participants are now starting to offer the in-memory technology that QlikTech has built its business upon. In the light of the traditional vendors’ encroachment, can QlikTech’s growth be sustained?

Xerox has been developing and implementing knowledge management (KM) systems since 1996 and has continued to do so despite the company's hard times and KM's tarnished image following the dotcom bust. Xerox wagered that 'knowledge' was the natural, higher role for 'the document' in the workplace, and the bet is paying off.