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Websense Chooses Pentalogic Technology to Deliver Dynamic Marketing Dashboards

By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor

Websense, a provider of unified content security, choose Pentalogic Technology's innovative PivotPoint webpart for SharePoint to deliver dynamic marketing dashboards.

According to company officials, PivotPoint is the only SharePoint webpart on the market that allows users to apply a pivot view directly to SharePoint list data.

Robin Bolton, program manager, of Websense (News - Alert) Intranet, said, “We have long been a user of Pentalogic's SharePoint Planner webpart too, so I knew Pentalogic could turn things around quickly if it came to the crunch. So that's why I choose PivotPoint.”

According to company officials, when Websense started to move their Excel data into SharePoint they had some very specific dashboarding requirements. They wanted to be able to dynamically slice and dice their data with a pivot view. Nothing they had, either with SharePoint out of the box, or 3rd party solutions, could give them that functionality.

Ryan Wheeler, CTO and founder of  Pentalogic, said, “We were really pleased to be able to put together this case study with Websense. PivotPoint is perhaps the least understood of our products, but maybe one of the most useful.”

According to Wheeler, accountants and statisticians get the concept of a pivot view instantly as they have grown up with pivot tables and cross tabulations. The concept can be a bit tricky to grasp in the abstract.

Wheeler, said, “It's only when you see it applied to your list data: instantly presenting insights and summaries that might otherwise have taken you hours to uncover, that you really understand how it can help you.”

PivotPoint gives users the ability to create meaningful dashboards from raw list data in moments, and dashboards are dynamic; they are updated as the list data changes.

Wheeler, said, “Because the benefits of PivotPoint can be difficult to see the abstract it's great to get this real-world example of the product being used.”

According to Wheeler, Websense case study will give other organizations insights into how they might use PivotPoint to extract business intelligence from their SharePoint list data.

PivotPoint is one among a range of SharePoint tools and webparts designed by Pentalogic Technology.

Pentalogic's SharePoint tools are used by organizations around the world to enhance the functionality of SharePoint.

In August Pentalogic announced the launch of its SharePoint Staff Vacation Planning Toolkit that enables the effective management of staff absence planning, TMCnet reported.