These days, it’s pretty darn tough to find an ‘ERP vendor.’ But you can find a ‘Cloud ERP’ vendor under very rock. Is the same thing happening in BI?
Beyond speedy proof of concepts, the reality of cloud BI has never been as sexy as the idea. Historically, most of the data intended to provide ‘intelligence’ lives in centralized data warehouses, and those warehouses don’t live in the cloud. Enter the fun of data latency and integration.
But is the market for cloud BI changing? And if so – why? I went looking for some satisfying answers.