The Case for Software-as-a-Service Analytics

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has many advantages over traditional "on-premise" enterprise software, causing companies increasingly to consider SaaS solutions. Compared to most Business Intelligence options, managers and business analysts are finding SaaS solutions to be less expensive and easier to deploy and use. Today's newest analytics technologies are available as SaaS offerings, enabling a fundamentally new approach to delivering business analytics solutions. This white paper explains why business analytics, more than other enterprise applications, benefits from new cloud computing-based SaaS infrastructures.