BI In The Cloud? Yes, And On The Ground, Too

Air Date: Friday, March 12, 2010

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Business Process professionals

Description:

Slowly but surely, with lots of criticism and skepticism, the business intelligence (BI) software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is gaining ground. It's a road full of peril — at least two BI SaaS startups have failed this year — but what software market segment hasn't seen its share of failures? Although Forrester does not see a stampede to replace traditional BI applications with SaaS alternatives in the near future, BI SaaS does have a few legitimate use cases even today, such as complementary BI, in coexistence with traditional BI; BI workspaces; and BI for small and some medium-size businesses. Forrester provides Business Process & Applications (BP&A) professionals and Information & Knowledge Management (I&KM) professionals with a structured approach to analyze the current cloud BI SaaS offerings and match them to the business requirements. Finally, best practices will help to define the right BI architecture and get the most out of traditional tools and a cloud subscription as a combination or as an alternative to traditional BI software.

Agenda:

• Gaps in the BI market from the buyer perspective
• What is BI SaaS? Or more importantly: What is it not?
• When and why would you use BI SaaS?
• BI SaaS landscape

Vendors mentioned: 1010data, Acsellerate Solutions, Actuate, Analytix On Demand, Bime, Birst, Cloud9 Analytics, FusionOps, GoodData, IBM, iDashboards, In2Clouds, Indicee, Information Builders, Jaspersoft, Kognitio, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, myDIALS, NetSuite, Oco, Oracle, Panorama Software, Pentaho, PivotLink, QlikView, Rosslyn Analytics, salesforce.com, SAP, SAS Institute, SpatialKey, SRC, TIBCO, Youcalc, and ZOHO

Related Research:

BI In The Cloud? Yes, And On The Ground, Too

by Boris Evelson, January 26, 2010

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