Aberdeen Research: A Snapshot of the State of SaaS BI for BI Deployment [RESEARCH]
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Aberdeen Research are one of the research firms that have been following the SaaS Business Intelligence trend for a while now. They recently published a paper which recognizes the fact that the increased adoption of SaaS in the business intelligence field validates that it is increasingly becoming a viable option for BI deployment in all types of organizations. Read on for some interesting stats.
read moreSelf-Service Business Intelligence: Empowering Users to Generate Insights [RESEARCH]
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TDWI define self-service BI as the facilities within the BI environment that enable BI users to become more self-reliant and less dependent on the IT organization. These facilities focus on four main objectives: easy access to source data for reporting and analysis, easy-to-use BI tools and improved support for data analysis, fast-to-deploy and easy-to-manage data warehouse options such as appliances and cloud computing, and simpler and customizable end-user interfaces. Read the TDWI report for more details.
read moreBoris Evelson: An Advocate For SaaS BI
"BI is hot. All of the leading management consultancies and systems integrators are putting BI at the top of their priority lists..." - Boris Evelson explains a couple of reasons why SaaS BI in particular is kicking off.
read moreSurveys Reveal SaaS BI Market Growth
According to a study by the Aberdeen Group, there has been increasing interest in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business intelligence over the past years, with twice as many organizations using this deployment approach as one year ago - 15% in 2009 compared to 7% in 2008.
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