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PivotLink: A Trusted Partner in the Cloud

See how PivotLink ensures 24/7 reliability, data protection, and security of customer and product data for many leading companies. PivotLink's strong three-tier security strategy incorporates physical security, encryption and role-based access.
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Claudia Imhoff: Making the Case for Moving “Just in Time” Data to Decision Makers

Learn about a new approach to BI that doesn’t require data used for analysis be fully integrated, cleaned up and loaded into its own repository. Now you can use data in its original format, eliminating the burden of full ETL and data quality processes to get to the value of data more quickly.
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The Aberdeen Group: The ABCs of Executive Analytics: A-List Performance Using BI in the C-suite

Learn the top strategies leading executives are using to take full advantage of the insight they receive from their BI systems - and turn that insight into a competitive weapon.
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PivotLink: Making Inventory Your Competitive Weapon
Learn how leading retailers are turning to SaaS BI for inventory planning to make better decisions by understanding what’s selling, what’s not and why, and extending that knowledge to partners, suppliers and distributors.
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Hurwitz and Associates: Building a Metrics-Driven Approach

Learn how to transition from the vicious cycle of creating copious amounts of reports to a metrics-based approach that provides the immediate insight you need.  
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The Aberdeen Group: Making the Case for SaaS BI

Read how SaaS BI will help your company gain greater analytical freedom - enabling faster decisions, lower IT costs and more pervasive use among business users. The white paper includes a case study of PivotLink customer Timbuk2.
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BeyeNETWORK: SaaS BI and Data Management

Industry thought leader explores why companies are looking to SaaS BI as a strategic advantage that will reduce overall costs and ensure immediate access to critical information for business analysts, executives and line of business owners.
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PivotLink: The PivotLink Business Intelligence Platform

This white paper discusses how PivotLink's unique business intelligence platform addresses the challenges of BI head-on and provides the ability for key stakeholders across your entire value chain to easily collaborate on a single, powerful analytics platform.
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TDWI: BI on a Limited Budget

Based on a comprehensive survey and in-depth interviews, this white paper uncovers the tactical BI maneuvers that can be used to cut costs and the strategic initiatives that will improve operating effectiveness.
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The Aberdeen Group: Collaborative Business Intelligence

With feedback from over 200 information workers, this white paper looks at how best-in-class companies have successfully merged BI functionality with collaborative workflows to produce substantial improvements in customer responsiveness, employee productivity and business process efficiency.
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PivotLink: Delivering Powerful Analytics to Decision Makers

Learn how PivotLink's on-demand BI solutions provide a dynamic way for line of business owners to access mission-critical analytics to gain greater insight.
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The Aberdeen Group: Pre-Built Dashboards – Delivering Value Fast

Learn why pre-built analytics dashboards can be implemented in 60% of the time required for a custom approach. The report also compares the performance of organizations using pre-built solutions to organizations with custom analytics dashboards.
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PivotLink: Insight at the Speed of Business

Every company has data sources that are critical to measuring business success. This white paper describes how PivotLink maximizes the value of these data sources to help create a sustainable competitive advantage.
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The Aberdeen Group: Pervasive Retail Business Intelligence

See how leading retailers are rethinking the role of BI in their organizations, resulting in company-wide visibility into purchasing behavior, store-level metrics and cross-channel data for improved retail performance.
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