Mark Cunningham has reunited some of the team that built Crystal Reports (now part of SAP Business Objects) and launched Indicee,
a SaaS-based BI reporting play that is pointed squarely at the
continuing difficulty of extending BI beyond its seemingly permanent
minority usage model. 
It's commonly understood that users continue to fend for themselves
manually, moving data to spreadsheets for analytic manipulation because
IT is unable to respond quickly enough to their needs. Indicee tackles
this by re-using existing report and spreadsheet content (not
surprisingly, Crystal reports lead the source list), moving it to the
cloud for data mart-based interaction, and innovating a different
approach to user interaction. It's worth a look, and a free download
for trial use sweetens the deal.
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