Comments on: How the Cloud Is Putting the Sizzle Back Into Business Intelligence

By: Cloud BI Architect

Cloud BI Architect — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:57:23 +0000

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By: Barbara Lewis

Barbara Lewis — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:56:04 +0000

Birst is a multi-tenant solution and always has been. It is for this reason that we have the most SaaS BI customers out of all current vendors. We are trusted by Citrix, RBC Wealth Management, and one of the largest regional YMCA’s in the United States, among others.

For our featured customers and to read more: http://www.birst.com/stories/index.shtml

Birst also offers a full, end-to-end BI solution – enterprise class functionality for an SMB price. This is unlike our competition, who can only handle limited BI situations.

By: Sanjay Poonen

Sanjay Poonen — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:55:02 +0000

[Will first caveat, with full disclosure, I run our Analytics business at SAP...]

Everyone describes the big BI vendors – SAP-BusinessObjects, IBM and Oracle – as dinosaurs without innovation in the SaaS BI area. But that “David and Goliath story” doesn’t hunt. Here’s why…

1) Go to http://www.ondemand.com, and you can setup your own BI SaaS account and start analytics with BusinessObjects On-Demand. We have 260K subscribers and growing rapidly, the undisputed leader in SaaS-BI / Cloud-Analytics.

2) We have more brand-name customers using our SaaS BI, than any large or small vendor (the large vendors don’t have a any SaaS BI offerings at all, and the small vendors have mostly SMB customers)

3) We supplement SaaS BI with mobile analytics (equally important in an untethered world), and that investment got bigger with the acquisition of Sybase (its mobile platform is the leader in the industry)

4) We believe the future is not SaaS BI tools, but analytic apps built on-demand, and tied to business processes. You are not going to get such business process knowledge from startup tools vendors, but APPLICATIONS vendors.

By: Roman Stanek

Roman Stanek — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:50:03 +0000

Andy,

I am the founder and CEO of GoodData and I would like to invite you to watch GoodData customer testimonials here: http://www.gooddata.com/about/good-data-tv/customer-testimonials/
Our users tackle very sophisticated enterprise-class BI challenges at a fraction of the cost of on-premise BI solution or single-tenant hosted BI solutions such as Oco or Birst…

-Roman

By: Aravind

Aravind — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:38:27 +0000

Nice post, Gary. SAAS BI is indeed making its mark. SMBs who were using the spreadsheet as their BI tool, now have a worthy option in the form of SAAS BI.

Zoho's comprehensive suite of online web apps includes Zoho Reports, an affordable business intelligence & reporting solution.

By: Barbara Lewis

Barbara Lewis — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:38:26 +0000

Another company for your consideration is Birst (www.birst.com), which offers full-featured BI on-demand. Birst has leading customers like Citrix, RBC Wealth Management,the YMCA, and Securian - proving that SaaS BI is for the enterprise, too, not just for midsize and smaller companies.

Birst also won the prestigious TDWI Best Practices Award in 2009, demonstrating that its solutions deliver real results.

By: Alison Benson

Alison Benson — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:17:31 +0000

Good article, and I agree there's a lot of sizzle. But I'm surprised it's missing a mention of SAP's BI OnDemand

By: Hubert Palan

Hubert Palan — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:32:22 +0000

Gary, thanks for your post and thanks for using GoodData as an example. You are right that the market is being disrupted. BI was traditionally in the realm of IT and that is now changing. What is your opinion on readiness of purely business users for this change? Do you see business users adopting the new SaaS BI tools?

What about other fellow readers here, what do you think?

Thanks, Hubert