On-Demand BI Momentum Growing

In the last few days I’ve seen more and more articles and blog posts about the market shift to software-as-a-service BI. Here are a few that are worth reading:

• On-Demand Business Intelligence - A blogger I had not read before cites some useful Gartner SaaS research and points to the rise of “vertical-focused solutions.”
• It’s Been a Most Interesting Year - Claudia Imhoff hightlights “SaaS coming to BI” as a 2007 highlight and points to “the pressures of reducing the costs of BI enviroments” as a driver.
• Business Intelligence 2K8 - summarizes many of the predictions that have been put forward for 2008 following the LucidEra list from earlier this month.
• Getting Smart is Getting Cheaper - eWeek article cites JupiterResearch prediction that “35 percent of small and mid-sized businesses would deploy a Web analytics-based solution within the next 12 months.”

Clearly on-demand BI momentum is growing as more and more organizations are getting value from business analytics as a service. (BAaaS is better than just AaaS, right?).

posted by Darren Cunningham at 4:14 pm

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