E-MailViability of the Cloud Model Still Up in the Air
Back in June, I discussed how, after almost four years, BI software as a service (SaaS) provider LucidEra was considering calling it quits (see "As SaaS Provider Quits, What Happens to Its Data?" 30 June 2009). Just to refresh your memory, LucidEra, founded in 2005, offers a number of on-demand BI applications, including those for customer lead insight and pipeline and order analysis. But unable to secure new funding, LucidEra reached the point where company officers began looking to sell off its intellectual property. It appears that, to some extent, this has now happened, as commercial open source BI provider Pentaho Corporation has acquired LucidEra's ClearView reporting tool technology. Pentaho plans to repackage the LucidEra tool and offer it as a front end friendly to business users for Pentaho's on-site open source BI platform and for use with SaaS deployments.
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