Top Users for On-Demand/Cloud-Based BI and DW

by Curt Hall

One question people keep asking is: where are organizations using on-demand -- software as as service (SaaS) -- and cloud-based BI and date warehousing solutions? A survey we conducted last July that asked 79 end-user organizations about their various BI and data warehousing efforts helps provide some insight into this question. Specifically, survey participants were asked to indicate the functional domains or application areas in which their organizations are using or planning to use on-demand and cloud-based BI and data warehousing solutions. The results found that the main leading application areas for BI and data warehousing solutions in the cloud are (1) reporting and (2) hosted data warehouses and data marts. Tied for third are customer data analysis and data integration, replication, and synchronization.