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 What Does Software as a Service Mean for Business Intelligence?
May 22nd, 2006
By Colin White
As companies move toward the use of software as a service, they must carefully evaluate the impact of this on the overall enterprise business intelligence system.
Several new business intelligence vendors specializing specifically in SaaS have appeared in the marketplace. Oco Inc., for example, offers its Oco Majik service for producing product, sales and customer analytics. Another example is Host Analytics that provides a Web-based service for business performance management in budgeting, planning, forecasting and financial consolidation.
In summary, there is a clear market direction toward the use of SaaS for providing on-demand application services. This is especially true in the SMB marketplace. This direction is encouraging BI vendors to join the SaaS movement by either supplementing application service vendor offerings, or by producing their own SaaS BI solutions. Regardless, as companies move toward the use of SaaS, they must carefully evaluate the impact of this on the overall enterprise business intelligence system.
(This article was originally published on www.b-eye-network.com) |
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