How to Compare Business Intelligence Cloud Costs and Features

Grazed from SmartDataCollective. Author: Jason Bowden.

As an IT provider, I am overwhelmed with all the options for Business Intelligence in the cloud and very confused by how to compare service offerings in order to effective provide the best solutions. In the article we will discuss some of the different offerings on the market and why all business are racing toward the cloud for Business Intelligence Solutions. I like to think of BI in generally two layers the visualization tools and the back end process tools. So let’s start there for WHY BI in the Cloud makes sense.

Presentation and Data Visualization

Data visualization in the cloud offers an intelligent solution for businesses to access data with better convenience and enhanced productivity. Business Intelligence (BI) cloud computing offers a more plug and play method to try new tools sets with an ease of implementation for a stand-up perspective. The tools are evolving quickly and as a solution you may want to not get tied to closely to a single solution…

Also, many of the new tools are tailored to specific verticals. Among these pioneers in turning cloud computing as a powerful source of business intelligence are Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Using BI cloud computing technology, these companies successfully demonstrated that the cloud (internet) has a strong capability of storing data without the use of costly hardware and other physical computing devices…

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