How SaaS Changes the Relationship of Business Users to BI


	How SaaS Changes the Relationship of Business Users to BI

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6-24-2009 1:43 AM

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The Data Warehouse Institute published a wide-ranging interview with LucidEra founder Ken Rudin today that focuses on the impact of SaaS and Cloud Computing on the business intelligence market.

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What’s the difference between software-as-a-service (<A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaaS" title="SaaS">SaaS</A>) and <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing" title="Cloud Computing">cloud computin</A>g?</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Why do business intelligence vendors and practitioners seem to focus so much on implementation rather than functions such as <A target="_blank" href="http://www.lucidera.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/10/modern-approaches-to-data-visualization/" title="data visualization">data visualization</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.lucidera.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/02/what-is-your-data-actually-telling-you/" title="data interpretation">interpretation</A>, which is presumably what they really want to do?</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">How does <A target="_blank" href="http://www.lucidera.com/application/demand_analytics.php" title="SaaS business intelligence">SaaS BI</A> solve this issue?</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What role does IT play in a SaaS implementation?</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What role does the business side play? What role does the business side play?</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">How has the role of <A target="_blank" href="http://www.slideshare.net/dcunni07/death-of-the-enterprise-buying-cycle" title="Death of the Enterprise Software Buying Cycle">software buyer</A> changed with SaaS?</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What is <A target="_blank" href="http://www.lucidera.com/index.php" title="LucidEra">LucidEra</A>’s approach to SaaS and BI?</LI>
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