The vendors say: just turn on the tap and ‘drink intelligence’ – BI in the cloud a hype?

A lot of business intelligence vendors are selling their cloud offerings, which seems like ‘heaven on earth’ to us. It’s cheaper, faster, more scalable and more reliable they say. But can true business intelligence be in the cloud? Can we draw parallels between water from the tap and BI in the cloud?

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Business Intelligence Teams Up With SaaS

Now that both established vendors and upstarts offer BI applications as on-demand services, more customers are saying yes to SaaS – gaining faster deployment, and speedier access to reporting data.

Ask Dennis Hernreich, COO and CFO of Casual Male Retail Group, what his life was like before he switched to an on-demand business intelligence reporting application, and he remembers the frustration all too easily.

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