SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 07/27/11 — , the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), today announced the appointment of Richard Nieset as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Nieset brings more than 25 years of senior-level experience in marketing, sales and development of technology products and solutions spanning business intelligence, data warehousing and analytic applications.
In this role, Nieset oversees PivotLink-s direct sales, channel sales and marketing organizations and leads PivotLink-s efforts to deliver Cloud analytic solutions to enterprise business users.
“Rich is a tremendous addition to our team, with a proven track record building winning sales organizations and capitalizing on high growth market opportunities,” said Bruce Armstrong, CEO, PivotLink. “He brings a deep understanding of the analytic solutions business users need to improve profitability and maintain competitive advantage, and we-re excited to benefit from his insights as we accelerate PivotLink-s growth.”
Nieset added, “It-s a terrific opportunity to join a fast-growing company that leads the SaaS BI market with ReadiMetrix solutions and robust platform capabilities that solve pressing business analytics challenges. PivotLink-s momentum in segments like retail reflects the company-s strength in improving merchandising decisions and helping retailers increase their agility in a dynamic business environment. This is an exciting time to leverage PivotLink-s technology and substantial subject matter expertise to deliver high value BI applications to customers.”
Most recently, Nieset was CEO and chairman of FusionOps, a SaaS BI company specializing in Supply Chain Analytics for SAP Manufacturing users. Nieset previously served as vice president of sales and marketing at Kickfire, a data warehouse appliance company that was acquired by Teradata in 2010. He also held senior sales, services and marketing positions at Helpstream, a developer of community-driven service and support management solutions, and KNOVA, a service resolution software provider he helped grow from a startup to a publicly-traded company. Nieset joined KNOVA from Agile Software, where he developed go-to-market strategies that fueled its leadership in the Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) category.
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PivotLink is the leader in on-demand business intelligence, serving customers such as: REI; Novell; Party City; CamelBak Products; Car Toys; Guardian Home Care Holdings, Inc; Rossignol; Shaklee; Taleo and Zones. PivotLink-s platform powers roughly 2,000,000 ad hoc reports and dashboards for more than 15,000 PivotLink users each month. Delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, PivotLink-s award-winning solutions put affordable, secure and easy-to-use analytic tools into the hands of line of business users. PivotLink is a privately held company backed by Trident Capital, Emergence Capital Partners and StarVest Partners. Visit .
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