SAN RAMON, Calif., June 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Armanino McKenna (www.amllp.com/consulting) was named by QlikTech as a QlikView "Elite Partner" as a result of Q1 2012 license sales which positioned the firm as one of QlikTech's largest partners in the United States. The QlikView Business Discovery platform works with data resources companies already have, bringing a whole new level of analysis, insight and value to users at all levels within an organization and Armanino McKenna is one of its certified top partners.

"We are pleased to recognize Armanino McKenna as an elite QlikView partner," said Joe DiBartolomeo, President of QlikTech Americas." QlikView has a track record of fast growth and we're particularly excited about Armanino McKenna's success because we recognize the firm as a partner prepared to grow with us."

Through a strategic sales, marketing and development agreement, Armanino McKenna's Consulting department offers QlikView to a variety of clients, such as Autodesk, Thomson Reuters, Varian Medical, Enphase Energy and Haws Corporation. Armanino McKenna leverages QlikView to build repeatable Business Intelligence solutions for a wide variety of industries, including high tech manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, life sciences, and professional services.

Armanino McKenna is a member of QlikView's Qonsultative Marketing program and winner of the 2011 QlikTech "Teamwork for Results" award.

"In a recent survey of Bay Area CFOs, business intelligence solutions were cited as the most desired investment for growing companies," said Matt Armanino, Armanino McKenna partner and COO. "QlikView is a great solution for the dynamic business intelligence challenges of our clients. We believe in it because Armanino McKenna uses it to manage our own firm's key performance indicators and we were just named the fastest growing accounting firm in the West."

For more information on QlikTech, please visit http://www.qlikview.com/.

About Armanino Consulting

Armanino Consulting, a key division of Armanino McKenna, provides comprehensive services to the CFO organization of fast-growing companies, including Microsoft Dynamics Implementation services, CFO Advisory and Outsourcing services. Armanino Consulting's QlikView practice has more than tripled in the last year in terms of revenues and employees. The firm is the 35th-largest public accounting and business consulting firm in the nation and the fastest-growing firm on the West Coast, according to Accounting Today. In addition to its San Ramon headquarters, the company has offices in San Francisco and San Jose, California; Portland, Oregon; and Bellevue, Washington.

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