How SaaS Changes the Relationship of Business Users to BI

The Data Warehouse Institute published a wide-ranging interview with LucidEra founder Ken Rudin today that focuses on the impact of SaaS and Cloud Computing on the business intelligence market. Questions asked include:

• What’s the difference between software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing?
• Why do business intelligence vendors and practitioners seem to focus so much on implementation rather than functions such as data visualization and interpretation, which is presumably what they really want to do?
• How does SaaS BI solve this issue?
• What role does IT play in a SaaS implementation?
• What role does the business side play? What role does the business side play?
• How has the role of software buyer changed with SaaS?
• What is LucidEra’s approach to SaaS and BI?