Hypatia Research, LLC recently released a report entitled “Business Intelligence: Connectivity Options & Evaluation Criteria” outlining best practices, vendor solutions and selection criteria for deploying SaaS-based business intelligence solutions.

Hypatia’s analysts determined that the popularity of SaaS-based business intelligence represents the inflection point of two separate trends in business: the increasing importance of gaining insight into all manner of business events, and increasing interest in the idea of leasing rather than buying a software application, and accessing it over the Internet.

“One of the most striking elements we uncovered in this research is the number of vendors who are licensing their business intelligence software engines to other application vendors. This means that companies looking for business intelligence capabilities have even more options for accessing insight,” said co-author and senior editor Howard Baldwin.

Software providers evaluated include: Business Objects, Cognos, SAS, Acxiom, Birst, Experian, Lucidera, Oco, SRC, 1010Data, Jaspersoft, Pentaho and QlikView.

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SOURCE: Hypatia Report Outlines Best Practices, Vendor Solutions and Selection Criteria for Deploying SaaS-Based Business Intelligence Solutions