SaaS-based Business Intelligence Firms Get a Piece of the Pie

Market confidence in SaaS-based Business Intelligence (BI) or analytics was validated in a Gartner Survey last quarter. An article in GigaOM shares how the results of this survey showed that there is a significant percentage of IT managers who have already switched to or planning to use SaaS-based BI the following year. While some firms are still using on-premises options, increased presence of SaaS-based companies is undeniable. A supporting material on the continued rise in the valuations of this new technology was also made reference to in the article. Some SaaS-Based BI firms cited were:

• Birst
• Jaspersoft
• Cloud9Analytics

Simply put, the cloud-based BI offers a more cost-efficient, faster and easier to implement solution. To read the rest of the article and see how the author compares on-premises and SaaS-based BI, visit GigaOM.  

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