Business Information Providers

What Business Information Providers does

Business Information Providers AB (BIPAB) is a privately held, employee-owned Business Intelligence consulting firm domiciled in Sweden, operating from Mölnlycke företagspark in the Gothenburg metropolitan area. The company traces its lineage to the Finnish InfoManager group (1980s) and was established in its current form in 2005 when employees executed a buyout of the Swedish subsidiary and rebranded it, subsequently becoming one of the first Certified Implementation Partners for QlikView in Sweden. Today BIPAB delivers horizontal BI solutions — including sales follow-up, budgeting and forecasting, inventory analysis, HR follow-up, OTIF, consolidation, and profitability calculations — to cross-industry Nordic enterprises of varying sizes, with a go-to-market centered on direct consultant engagement rather than self-serve channels.

The product portfolio combines implementation services and resale of Qlik's BI platform (QlikView, Qlik Sense, Qlik Cloud) with the company's own proprietary PickinBasic software, a web-based system that collects supplementary business data (targets, bonus rates, productive hours, comments, action plans) into a centralized database to complement existing BI applications. Pre-packaged Qlik implementations ("Qlik Paketeringar") are sold as reusable templates. The revenue model rests on a one-time perpetual license for PickinBasic — unlimited internal users and databases, with no annual maintenance fees or version updates — plus professional services revenue from Qlik deployments and custom BI work. Technology is built on Qlik Sense/QlikView with PickinBasic running on Windows Server and IIS. The company has two publicly identified leaders (CEO Klas Lavenius, BI Expert Anders Lindén) and discloses no external investors, parent entity, or headcount.

Name

Business Information Providers

Legal name

Business Information Providers AB

Website

https://bipab.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Business Information Providers AB (BIPAB) is a Sweden-based, employee-owned BI consulting firm that implements Qlik solutions and sells its proprietary PickinBasic software for supplementary business data management, serving cross-industry Nordic enterprises of varying sizes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Intelligence Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Dashboarding & KPI/Performance Management (HDAEAMAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Enterprise Application Reporting, BI & Analytics Enablement (BPAEAGAK)

Keywords

• Business intelligence consulting
• Qlik implementation services
• Supplementary data management
• BI software licensing
• Data analytics deployment

Headquarters

HQ city

Göteborg

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. PickinBasic Software License: One-time license fee for PickinBasic software. Customers receive unlimited users and unlimited databases within their organization. No annual fees but also no new version updates included.
2. BI Consulting Services: Professional consulting services for Business Intelligence implementation, including Qlik Sense/QlikView deployments, custom solution development, and BI project support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Business Information Providers AB sells Business Intelligence (BI) software and consulting services based on the Qlik platform (QlikView, Qlik Sense, Qlik Cloud). Its core proprietary product is PickinBasic, a web-based system that collects supplementary business data (targets, bonus rates, productive hours, comments) into a centralized database for use within BI applications, replacing scattered Excel-based manual processes. The company also offers pre-packaged BI implementation templates and certified Qlik consulting.

Product overview

Business Information Providers offers a portfolio of Business Intelligence solutions centered on Qlik products (QlikView, Qlik Sense, Qlik Cloud) complemented by their proprietary PickinBasic software. PickinBasic is a standalone web-based data collection system that feeds supplementary business data into BI applications. The company also provides pre-packaged Qlik implementations ('Qlik Paketeringar') that offer reusable templates for faster BI project deployment. Their offerings span the full BI spectrum from data collection and consolidation to visualization and decision support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PickinBasic Proprietary web-based system that collects supplementary business data (targets, bonus rates, productive hours, comments, action plans) into a centralized database for use within BI applications. Sold as a one-time perpetual license with unlimited users and databases within the customer organization, replacing scattered Excel-based manual data management with structured database input.
• Qlik Paketeringar Pre-packaged implementations of QlikView and PickinBasic delivered as reusable starting templates for BI projects. Designed to give customers a structured foundation so they can avoid starting BI projects from a blank page, accelerating deployment and reducing cost.
• BI Consulting Services Professional consulting services covering Qlik Sense, QlikView, and Qlik Cloud implementations, custom BI solution development, BI project support, and pre-packaged implementation deployment for Nordic enterprises across use cases including budgeting, sales follow-up, profitability, inventory, HR, and consolidation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Solutions typically delivered in days or weeks instead of months/years

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• QlikcoreTechnology or IntegrationCertified Implementation Partner for QlikView (one of the first in Sweden). Company uses Qlik's products exclusively as primary tools in their consulting engagements. Transitioned from InfoManager to QlikView as main BI platform. Works with both Qlik Sense and QlikView products.
• MindcampminorOthersMindcamp.se appears to be the provider of their current office/business park location in Mölnlycke. The company has relocated operations to Mindcamp's facilities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Knowit: Nordic-headquartered digital and IT consultancy with a dedicated Business Intelligence practice. Comparable to BIPAB because both serve Swedish/Nordic mid-market and enterprise customers with BI implementation services using platforms such as Qlik, and compete for the same consulting engagements.
• Argano: Global consultancy that has built a large Qlik-focused BI practice via acquisitions of Qlik implementation partners. Comparable to BIPAB because Argano competes for the same type of Qlik-led BI implementation deals and also sells add-on IP around the Qlik platform, mirroring BIPAB's PickinBasic-plus-Qlik model.
• Devoteam: European technology consultancy with established Qlik and broader BI/digital transformation practices across the Nordics and continental Europe. Comparable to BIPAB because both position BI consulting as a core offering and target enterprise decision-support use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Accenture: Global systems integrator with a large Data & Analytics practice serving Nordic enterprises on Qlik, Tableau, and Power BI programs. Comparable to BIPAB as an incumbent competitor for enterprise BI consulting engagements in Sweden, though BI is one capability within a much broader portfolio.
• CGI Group: Large global IT and business consulting firm with significant Nordic and Swedish operations delivering BI, ERP, and data analytics services. Comparable to BIPAB as a much larger incumbent that competes for Swedish enterprise BI and Qlik-adjacent implementation work, though BI is one of many service lines.
• Qlik Technologies: Vendor of the Qlik Sense, QlikView, and Qlik Cloud platforms that BIPAB builds upon as a Certified Implementation Partner. Comparable to BIPAB because Qlik's own services organization and partner program define the ecosystem in which BIPAB competes for implementation, customization, and add-on software revenue.
• Capgemini: Global IT services firm with significant Nordic delivery centers offering BI, analytics, and data platform services to enterprise clients. Comparable to BIPAB as a broader incumbent competing for the same enterprise data/BI consulting opportunities in the Nordics.
• Deloitte (Analytics & Cognitive): Big Four advisory and consulting firm with data analytics and BI implementation practices across the Nordics. Comparable to BIPAB as a large incumbent competing for enterprise decision-support and BI transformation projects, though set within a much larger advisory portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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