How the Cloud is Transforming Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence has traditionally been delivered as a set of tools that required a complex IT infrastructure of data warehouse and related tools, middleware, ERP integration and professional services and consulting expertise to identify and define appropriate metrics and determine the source of the data lying in the maze of ERP tables. The complexity of the entire business intelligence food chain coupled with the difficulty in creating new metrics and analyzing information from a business perspective has kept the adoption rate for business intelligence low and a top priority for CIOs for the past five years, according to Gartner Research.