PETEREVANSBI

The fact that the Cloud can support BI is not at question here the requirement is that it supports major corporation's BI needs. I believe that the ability to provide a pay as you compute infrastructure will provide new data warehouse storage options and provide the possibility of unlimited scalability within your corporate environment. However these major plus points must be tempered with a realisation that BI in the cloud is still in its infancy. Major consideration must be given to security, data transfer rates and the chosen vendors risk within the market place. If your company can perform due diligence to satisfy themselves that these possible stumbling blocks can be offset then there is the ability for the cloud to satisfy the most demanding of companies. I believe that the main users of cloud BI as a main source of BI for their companies will be SMEs and that larger corporations will utilise the cloud as a sandbox for pre-deployment development and testing... Peter Evans, MBCS,..