Posts Tagged ‘enterprise productivity’

Debuting ReadiMetrix and 4.3 at Gartner BI Summit

April 15th, 2010

qgallivan

I traveled to Las Vegas this week with some PivotLink customers and partners to attend the Gartner BI Summit 2010. We not only debuted ReadiMetrix for Sales, Marketing and Human Capital Management to the crowd but we announced the new 4.3 release of our SaaS BI Platform. As the only pure-play SaaS BI vendor in the exhibit hall we drew a tremendous amount of traffic to the booth, where we engaged both line of business users and IT professionals in extensive demos and discussion around the New BI.

PivotLink’s vision for the New BI intends to create a business world where everyone is empowered – especially business users who are ultimately responsible for the decisions and outcomes made using enterprise data. Of the many conversations I had with attendees and analysts, several points stood out in support of our vision for the New BI:

1. Business users are yearning for tools that will allow them to explore and analyze their data independently without waiting for IT
2. IT won’t resist something that makes business users more effective while reducing their workload
3. The New BI will help build a bridge between IT and the line of business thereby driving rapid cultural changes

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The New BI…is about to get really interesting!

February 12th, 2010

qgallivan

Imagine being able to help your executive team anticipate and address hotspots in your business, spending less time chasing data and building reports and more time measuring the precise aspects that matter most to you; collaborating online with communities of experts (colleagues, customers, suppliers); discovering insights that allow you to improve profitability, capitalize on growth opportunites and innovate faster! Now you can do this quickly, cost-effectively and without burdening IT. This is the New BI – an emerging paradigm for analytics designed around the way people really work, share information and make decisions.  All powered by solutions from PivotLink and PivotLink partners.

The New BI is in the cloud and benefits from the inherent advantages of this computing model (affordable, agile, quickly deployable, high bandwidth, “always on”, extend more kinds of data to more users). Most importantly, the New BI isn’t shackled behind the four walls of an organization. It goes well beyond and helps individuals extend their network far and fast enough to get timely insights and answers to their operational and strategic questions. The New BI goes beyond analysis and reporting and ventures into the realm of true collaborative decision making. Web 2.0 social tools wrapped around the New BI have the ability to quickly collect and spread knowledge, connect people who would otherwise have remained unaware of each other, harness their collective intelligence and enhance individual decision making.

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