Is this good? Well,what’s not to be excited about getting insightful and useful answers concerning meaningful and relevant business facts . Answers that when put into action, could help significantly save customers, revenues and profits. And most importantly, getting these things with a smaller impact to the calendar and checkbook. With the normal admonitions about making sure you understand just what will be delivered in these solutions (how broad, how deep, what’s excluded) and how reliable the data will be, SaaS BI solutions offer an exciting alternative to the relatively long and expensive custom built approaches that have historically been utilized.
Today, Claudia Imhoff and Colin White (2 well respected industry experts) published an exerpt of a soon-to-be-released research paper on SaaS business intelligence entitled “Pay as You Go: SaaS Business Intelligence and Data Management.” This entry highlights a few of the solutions and Saas vendors covered in their broader report (including Blink Logic, Host Analytics, Kognitio, PivotLink and SAP Business Objects).
For those who have visited this blog previously, you are no doubt aware that we enjoy focusing on the “business” of business intelligence. I particularly enjoyed the articles’ summary highlighting just how many survey respondents (60%) are either already or are planning to utilize SaaS-based BI solutions. What’s more, their respondents claimed they appreciated the faster implementation cycles and lower cost not to mention the business focus (vs.IT focus) and easier maintenance.
