Business Intelligence 2.0: SaaS, Social and iPad

How the Business Intelligence systems will look like in the Enterprise 2.0 world? Major market players are confident that these should be SaaS solutions. Because Business Intelligence requires a lot of computing resources to process the huge amounts of data, and the most effective way to get these resources - is to rent them from the "cloud". Even SAP, which historically doesn't like SaaS, recently released SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand. But simply delivering BI from a cloud - is not so cool, thinks RoamBI. Business Intelligence 2.0 should be beautiful. In order to satisfy executives when they investigate the "health" of the company and want to demonstrate the business results to investors in the most exciting way. That's why RoamBI created mobile apps for iPhone and iPad, which allow to effectively visualize the data from SAP BusinessObjects BI and other BI systems.


But that's not all. Because today Social Web is an integral part of any business. And if you carry out  business analysis, not to take into account what what your customers say about your company in social networks - is stupid. That's why SAS (the business intelligence giant) recently released the on-demand service SAS Social Media Analytics, which is specifically designed for the social web analysis. This intelligent system collects data from the Internet, process statistics and visualizes what people say about your company and products and where they do it (in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube ...).