After attending this year’s All About the Cloud, Abdullah Mashuk shared a summary about the Business Intelligence in the Cloud Presentation.
Moderator: Phil Wainewright, Procullux Ventures
Speakers: David Abramson (LogiXML), Eileen Boerger (CorSource Technology Group, Inc.), Vincent Lam (Information Builders), Roman Stanek (GoodData)
Discussion Points:
- There are benefits to the cloud and there are benefits to on-premise
- Cloud is not a zero sum game. If you go to cloud you do not have to lose out on-premise
- Cloud offers a new paradigm and there is an audience for Business Intelligence in the cloud, on the flip side there is an audience for Business Intelligence for on-premise.
- At the end of the both Cloud and on-premise here to stay. The challenge will be to how to make both cloud and on-premise to work together
- Roman disagrees with Vincent think it is zero sum game and he build his company with that notion and IT is generally moving in towards the cloud direction.
- How cloud is different:
- Cloud based services can scale better and faster than the on premise services
- Additionally cloud services can easily extend to different types of devices (mobile devices, laptops etc)
- Enable collaboration
- Cloud provides real time data and Business Intelligence that was not easily available for on-premise system. For on-premise systems real time BI was available in the form of real time warehouse
- Cloud enables BI accessible to other members of the organization, not just the Business Analyst. BI is not just for the analyst.
- Two solutions to cloud BI:
- If data is to tell story, it cannot be isolated, it has to be visual and cloud enable that. Standardizations are happening around data visualization so user can easily understand that data at various time spent.
- Data should be measurable.
- Users are becoming data savvy and also consumerization of BI is happening.
- Important words to related to cloud BI Deployment:
- Agility
- Adoption
- Planning and understanding
- Success