OCO Business Analytics http://www.oco-inc.com/, is interesting company, they have created product which makes BI available on cloud as SaaS. I always thought that most of the reporting, OLAP and BI needs can be better delivered on the web.
This reminds me of 2000, when some of the companies created a category of applications/market called ASP ( Application Service Providers), they were right in their overall vision, but at that time, some of the developments in hardware and software not there to make them “SaaS” or “cloud” applications.
There 3 technological changes that have enabled this kind of widespread transformation from ASP to Saas/Cloud:
1. Hardware advanced in virtualisation
2. Provisioning technologies
3. Software development productivities, by way of crashing of software development cycles.
BI on Cloud/Saas will increase its adoption in the coming years and we will see more and more BI applications coming from cloud.
