Everyone wins when business teams can conduct most of their own analysis.
Business teams require far fewer IT resources to integrate data, configure the system, or generate templates. IT can, in turn, provide greater service to business teams by being able to help them faster without significantly impacting IT resources. Because SaaS BI solutions can be set up in a fraction of the time of traditional solutions, the time and resources required by IT to deploy a finished solution are dramatically reduced. Since SaaS BI (or on-demand BI) vendors maintain and upgrade the system and hosting servers, IT is also freed from much of the normal on-going workload associated with traditional enterprise software.
Scalability
Easily scale from group to enterprise level solutions.
Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are designed to support a large number of customers simultaneously, with capacity to spare. This means that any individual customer can quickly expand their on-demand BI solution by simply requesting a larger account size or more users.
Unlike on-premise solutions, customers can expand their on-demand BI solution without having to buy and deploy more hardware or install different, larger software servers. Since the vendor is the one responsible for capacity, organizations can begin with a small number of users and a small set of data, easily scaling to an enterprise level platform, or anything in between.
Flexibility
Quickly adapt to changing business needs.
Unlike traditional solutions, SaaS BI solutions can be changed easily, so non-technical users can quickly add new reports and dashboards, new data sources, and new analyses. With traditional BI solutions, such changes could take weeks or months, and involve significant IT resources.
