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Debate over BI in the Cloud continues

Posted by Jon Wilcox in Infrastructure on Wed, 03/02/2010 - 15:25
Although business intelligence (BI) Software-as-a-Service sales will grow at three times the rate of on premise equivalents over the next few years, analysts have mixed views over how long such offerings will take to make a real market impact.
 
A new report from researchers IDC predicted that BI SaaS purchasing would grow at a compound annual rate of 22.4 per cent until the end of 2013, although actual revenue totals would remain a small part of the overall market.
 
Moreover, in a ‘most-likely-to-buy-from-the-cloud&rsq
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