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
