Pivotlink is a pure SaaS play for midmarket or enterprise departmental needs. They make a clear claim to target companies with BI shelfware and have a number of case studies where customer's BI needs were met with PivotLink after failures with other solutions. Pivotlink delivers data in various forms, but mostly based around the concept of a pivot table, providing ad-hoc data access across a high level of dimensionality. Interestingly, I have learned that PivotLink uses a proprietary columnar in-memory database management system. This DBMS is not sold separately. As with any columnar, there is a high compression ratio. And here you can see how the Pivotlink data model is customizable through an abstracted view. From a technology perspective, Pivotlink is interesting from its combination of in vogue approaches like columnar DBMS and SaaS. It claims access to a variety of source systems, supporting customers with billions of rows of data like REI.
Posted April 3, 2009 11:36 AM
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