Over the years, organizations have made significant investments to automate their business processes - today's challenge is to leverage the stored information and optimize process performance and decision making," said Andreas Bitterer, Vice President of Research at Gartner. "Business intelligence enables organizations to improve their business results, and organizations need to find ways to deploy large scale business intelligence platforms at a lower cost, more quickly, and that are easy to use. The shift to 64-bit computing and its elimination of current memory constraints signifies a big step towards a real-time approach to business analysis and enables users to rapidly examine large amounts of data with virtually no limit.
QlikView 8 System Requirements

32-Bit QlikView Platform
Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Pentium 4 or higher recommended
Depending on size of applications; 512 MB or more recommended
150 MB total required to install
64-Bit QlikView Platform
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Intel and AMD x64 compatible processors
Depending on size of applications; 2 GB or higher recommended
150 MB total required to install

32-Bit QlikView Server
For instances of: Analyzer for IE, QlikView Analyzer Java, QlikView Analyzer AJAX, Zero-footprint instances
Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Pentium 4 or higher recommended
Depending on size of applications; 1 GB or more recommended
200 MB total required to install
MS IIS* to act as a web server
64-bit QlikView Server
For instances of: Analyzer for IE, QlikView Analyzer Java, QlikView Analyzer AJAX, Zero-footprint instances
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Intel and AMD x64 compatible processors
Depending on size of applications; 4 GB or higher recommended
200 MB total required to install
MS IIS* to act as a web server

32-bit QlikView Publisher
Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Pentium 4 or higher recommended
Depending on size of applications; 512 MB or more recommended
200 MB total required to install
SQL Server 2000*, SQL Server 2005*, Native XML
MS IIS to act as a web server
.NET 2.0.50727
Internet Explorer 6
64-Bit QlikView Publisher
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Intel and AMD x64 compatible processors
Depending on size of applications; 2 GB or higher recommended
200 MB total required to install
SQL Server 2000*, SQL Server 2005*, Native XML
MS IIS to act as a web server
.NET 2.0.50727
Internet Explorer 6
*Optional
