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Press Contact: William Stickney, Horn Group, Inc., 415.905.4025, wstickney@horngroup.com PivotLink Corp. Announces PivotLink for Retail Offering based on PivotLink Framework and PivotLink Solutions architecture SEATTLE - January 14, 2008 - PivotLink Corp., formerly SeaTab Software, today announced PivotLink for Retail, a robust business intelligence solution for retailers. PivotLink for Retail provides a set of dashboards, reports, key performance indicators (KPIs), and charts that represent best practices for leading retail customers. Based on PivotLink's years of experience and broad customer base in retail, these elements form a compelling retail solution that is designed to be extended and enhanced for customers' particular business needs. PivotLink for Retail provides reporting and analytics across a wide range of retail operations, including merchandising, sales, inventory, ordering, marketing, finance, human resources, staffing, and expenses. The starting point of the user experience is a set of role-appropriate dashboards that allow all employees to access the data that they need to do their jobs on a daily basis. Beyond these dashboards, users can click through to see reports and charts that integrate data from multiple systems, including point-of-sale, ERP, and CRM. Because PivotLink for Retail does not require cubing or pre-aggregation, data can be drilled into, down to the SKU or invoice line item level. The priority on ease-of-use carries over to report creation and modification, where a drag-and-drop interface allows users to perform reporting and analytic tasks that have traditionally required IT staff. PivotLink for Retail is part of the PivotLink Solutions™ family, which are industry- or function-based business intelligence elements built on top of the PivotLink Framework™. This Framework has been developed over almost 10 years and includes a data store designed and tuned for business intelligence, an application core that provides advanced reporting and analytics, and user interface and administrative functionality that allow non-technical staff to gain insight into their business in new ways. "The PivotLink for Retail solution serves as both a jumping-off point and a collection of best practices for retail businesses, whether they are already on the leading edge of retail management or attempting to catch up with the competition in the increasingly challenging retail industry," said Jerry Parrish, director of products at PivotLink Corp. "The company will continue to innovate, directly and through partners, by introducing additional solution sets based on its years of experience. These solutions tear down the barriers of traditional business intelligence with low-risk deployments (typically under 30 days), excellent performance for a low price, and minimal IT involvement." "BI at the high end has been absorbed by the big three (Oracle, SAP & IBM), who don't have the ability to get down market where all the greenfield opportunity is," said Peter Goldmacher, managing director and senior analyst at Cowen and Company. "The right product at the right price can really open up the mid-market, which has the potential to be as big as the enterprise market." PivotLink for Retail is available immediately. About PivotLink Corp. |
