Companies eyeing the Cloud to improve business intelligence efforts
Posted by Rachel Fielding in Customer experience on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 02:03
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One in three organisations will move to the cloud to enhance their business intelligence capabilities in the next 12 months, analyst Gartner has said.
A survey of 1,364 IT managers and business users of BI platforms conducted by the analyst found that only 17% of organisations have replaced or plan to replace parts of their core BI functions with Cloud/SaaS offerings. However, almost a third already use or plan to use Cloud/SaaS options to augment their BI capabilities for specific lines of business or subject areas in the next 12 months.
Gartner says frustration at deployment cycles, costs and complicated upgrade processes, was driving the trend. The use of SaaS BI may lead to faster deployment, insight and value, particularly where IT is constrained by existing work and/or limited budget so that it cannot respond to demands for information and analysis as quickly as the business requires.
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