Business Intelligence gets Cloudy

June 6, 2008 · Filed Under BI, Web 2.0

Cloud computing is a great IT buzzword for this year, and sure enough, there are some BI vendors hitching themselves to this bandwagon. However, beyond the hype, there are some real benefits to hosting BI applications outside the organization’s own data center and “in the cloud”, as explained in this InfoWorld article:

The client interface is web based - End users are already familiar with the web browser, and increasingly, they are at ease with using web applications.
The IT department’s role is simplified - There is no additional server infrastructure to maintain, and there are no desktop applications to roll out, troubleshoot and keep updated.

While there are other issues to address, I think the weight of these two arguments, which both reduce the overall cost of BI implementations, will continue to drive more BI software into a cloud computing model.

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