SaaS BI: SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTION FOR SMB’S

In the wake of the economic slowdown, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to do more with the same resources; articulate differently- to make every penny, input and contribution count. In such situations, technologies like Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence (BI) are becoming increasingly important in gaining and maintaining a competitive edge. These technologies when combined enable a variety of new analytic data management projects and business possibilities. Cloud computing will change the economics of BI by making available the hardware, networking, security and software needed to create data marts and data warehouses on demand with a pay-as-you-go approach to usage and licensing. This paper focused on the need of BI in SMB’s. It also state the problems associated with traditional BI tools and proposed a SaaS BI model for handling the problems. Finally the paper outline the benefits of SaaS BI tools