Software as a Service and Business Intelligence
With companies like Microsoft towards the concept of Software as a service[SaaS] or on-demand application services, how does this scope for Business Intelligence. If you start thinking about it by now, even by evening or by tomorrow morning you would arrive at a conclusion, that software as a service could not be applied for Business Intelligence. Atleast not effectively.
At first sight, SaaS 2.0 appears to be another version of the application service provider (ASP) model that failed miserably after the dot-com bust. There are, however, some important differences between the two models. The first is that the ASP model focused primarily on giving an organization the ability to move certain application processing workloads to a third-party managed server. Unlike SaaS, ASPs were not necessarily concerned about providing shared services to multiple tenants. Also, most ASPs did not have a significant amount of application and business domain knowledge about the applications they were running. SaaS providers, on the other hand, usually have a large amount of domain expertise.
It was until I read this column by Colin White, last month. Colin’s business reasons on how BI can effectively use Saas, clears out the confused mind. Ofcourse it was probably just me who thought he could have dived deeper into the reasons on why he says comapnies should carefully measure the impact on their enterprise BI systems.
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