How the cloud is simplifying business analytics for SAP

By Valerie Preston On January 27, 2012 · View Comments

The Cloud revolution is here. Are you still wondering what it means for you and your business? FusionOps is using the Cloud to drastically simplify the requirements for delivering working business analytics to end users, while at the same time, improving the usability, speed and value of BI. With cloud BI, all of the BI infrastructure and reporting capabilities are included. There is no software to install or update and no code to write. But the benefits of the Cloud go beyond just cost savings by allowing end users to access to the deeper insight and quicker decision.

Benefits of Cloud BI

A manufacturing company frustrated with the cost, complexity, and poor usability of its traditional on-premise BI applications, evaluated several on-premise applications and corresponding cloud equivalents for its HR, IT problem resolution, and CRM systems.

The multiple benefits of cloud applications are:

25 percent lower investment than with traditional applications
70 percent fewer resources to administer/run the application versus traditional applications
25 percent lower TCO (total cost of ownership) over a five- to seven year time frame compared to the on-premise application.
40 percent cost and time savings with PaaS pilot project
Impressive improvements in usability, simplicity, performance, and speed of implementation
Security concerns addressed with totally encrypted database plus point-to-point security and access

Source: Sand Hill Group cloud Computing Survey 2011

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