Cloud computing is ushering in a new era of analytic data management for business intelligence (BI) by enabling organizations to analyze terabytes of data faster and more economically than ever before.
As a new alternative to traditional, in-house data analytics infrastructure, the Cloud will transform the economics of BI and open up many new possibilities for organizations of all sizes. Cloudbased analytics should be expected to impact BI in the following five ways:
- Lines of business will have the flexibility to fund more data mart projects
- Organizations will conduct more short-term ad-hoc analysis
- Data warehousing will increase within medium-size businesses
- The analytic SaaS market will develop faster
- New BI technology adoption will accelerate