BI and Software-As-A-Service (BI SaaS)
May 3, 2010
Who moved my cheese…again???
Economy challenges always seem to prompt new business models and productivity increases. Remember 10 years ago and the dot.com bomb?? Prior to 1999, websites were being developed in great numbers but there was no revenue model to support it. Those companies failed…others, that found a way to take a seemingly free service and get paid for it thrived. Additionally, with the fall off in the economy, people had to find a way to deliver the same services their customers were used to but do it for less. Voila! Off-shore resources!!
In the last several years though, even off-shore resources are expensive. Seasoned IT professionals (baby boomers) are retiring and taking valuable company info along with them. Profit margins for most companies continue to erode as spending has slowed. DASD has gotten significantly less expensive and bandwidth has quadrupled (or more?)! Those “free” websites now charge fees, but they aren’t outrageous. Given these changes, it makes sense that more and more applications are moving into the Cloud.
As you know, here at LUCRUM, “we do BI”. Respoinding to our customers, we implemented Agile BI concepts long before it was fashionable. We are able to get BI projects up and running in significantly less time than our “big 6″ competitors (and do it for less!). As we continue to investigate ways to get data to our customers faster, we have become fascinated with the Cloud. Certainly there has to be a way to take all of these company assets, secure them in the Cloud and give users better/faster access to their data.
We’ve investigated a few companies that are doing this today: Good Data, OCO, BIRST, and PivotLink. What’s interesting about each of these companies is that they’ve taken the common business problems – Sales and Finance – and created models to support them. I was fortunate to participate in a meeting with Good Data last week. I’m excited to learn more about each of these companies and even more excited to see how LUCRUM can support BI in the Cloud!
Stay tuned!
- Jodie
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Nice post, we are pleased to see more buzz about this growing space.
In addition to the vendors mentioned, just wanted to let you and your readers know that 1010data is active here as well, and we write about it regularly on our blog The Future of Data
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