Software-as-a-service solutions ‘make analytics easier’

Software-as-a-service tools make it easier for businesses to conduct analytics assignments on important data.

This is the view of SmartData Collective contributor John Jordan, who explained that analytics allows companies to gain business insights by sorting through data sets to discover previously unseen patterns.

He said that there has been an upturn in interest in the process recently, something that can be partially attributed to the development of software-as-a-service offerings that aid such work.

"Software-as-a-service puts analytics into the hands of people who lack the data sets, the computational processing power and the rich technical training formerly required for hardcore number-crunching," Mr Jordan explained.

In a recent article for Forbes, columnist Dan Woods explained that software-as-a-service tools are having a broader impact in the IT industry.

He stated that the applications are helping to simplify the component parts of IT, making it easier for workers to get on with the job of "conquer[ing] complexity".