PivotLink, the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), recently announced the immediate availability of PivotLink ReadiMetrix, a new product family targeted to business users that want to achieve quick business intelligence (BI) wins in the Cloud, on-demand. Built on the award-winning PivotLink platform, the initial suite of three ReadiMetrix analytical applications combines key performance indicators (KPIs), reports and collaborative dashboards into a single application that eliminates the cost and complexity of traditional on-premise BI systems.

PivotLink ReadiMetrix is the first SaaS BI suite that provides Sales, Marketing and Human Resources (HR) professionals with “out-of-the-box” best practice core metrics to monitor progress and correlate results to business goals. It provides everything a line of business user needs to go from data to decisions in days instead of months or years.

ReadiMetrix manifests PivotLink’s mission to move beyond the industry’s traditional business intelligence approach and usher in the new BI era. PivotLink is delivering three essential components to help its customers achieve “Insight as a Service”: an enterprise-grade SaaS BI platform; best practice KPIs and data mash-ups; and a burgeoning expert and user community.

The next generation of BI is described in a forthcoming report by analyst and author Howard Dresner, president of Dresner Advisory Services, who is widely recognized for coining the term business intelligence.

Dresner added, “My latest study shows three playing fields have formed in business intelligence: Titans, Established Pure-plays and Emerging Vendors. The early findings paint a fascinating picture about the surge of innovation happening in BI. As BI 3.0 unfolds, the market should keep a close eye on emerging companies with the potential to transform the market as we know it. Among others, PivotLink will be ranked in the study, which should be available by month’s end.”

The first three packages in the ReadiMetrix suite include:

• ReadiMetrix for Sales – improve win rates and boost revenues with metrics for sales performance, pipeline velocity, lead conversion and sales forecast accuracy;
• ReadiMetrix for Marketing – optimize your marketing mix and improve demand creation effectiveness with metrics to track prospect-to-lead, lead-to-opportunity and segmentation profiling;
• ReadiMetrix for Human Capital Management – align your workforce and improve business execution using metrics for compensation and benefits analysis, headcount attrition, span of control and performance management.
  

“ReadiMetrix is an entirely new way to think about BI applications – a new SaaS paradigm where bloated BI software, skyrocketing maintenance fees and painfully slow deployments for only a handful of users are a thing of the past,” said Quentin Gallivan, CEO, PivotLink. “Empowering business users with self-service metrics instead of waiting in a long queue for analytical reports lifts a huge burden off IT and delivers on the original vision of pervasive BI. We’re getting outstanding feedback from customers and partners and we’re proud to lead the way with a revolutionary metrics-driven and end-user friendly platform that is making the ‘New BI’ possible.”