- Functionality
- Subscription based service, offered on a cloud for full integration, reporting and analytical capabilities
- Built on Teradata hardware and technology
- Leverages open-source reporting and ETL tools
- Establish the service to deploy to customers in as little as 6 weeks |
- Benefits
- No initial investment in purchasing the hardware and the software tools to build a complete solution.
- Organizations with limited IS staff, constrained by skills and budgets do not have to recruit, retain and manage large teams of data warehousing, ETL, integration and reports development personnel.
- The solution is right-sized for the organization based on whether the reporting needs are departmental (smaller scale and scope) or enterprise wide (larger scale and scope) immediately upon inception.
- Companies can start off the initiative with small cash outlays for establishing the solutions (at a departmental data mart, for instance) and build upon this to cover greater scope and functions.
- Adding additional capacity and performing enhancements to the solution is serviced on-demand by the SaaS BI provider. Customers only pay for the hardware and software being used, as opposed to making large-scale technology investments and waiting for a certain time elapse before realizing returns.
- Service providers often engage with the clients to perform enhancements to existing reports and data warehouses as part of the offering.
- The company utilizing SaaS BI does not have the overhead of hiring, training or retaining the required skilled personnel for this initiative. The implementation project is often fast-tracked by skipping the entire mobilization phase of a project, resulting in faster time to deliver the solution.
- The users can focus on the core data to manage and grow the business by have intelligence delivered to them - instead of engaging in an IT initiative to implement a reporting solution.
- The management and the maintenance of the solution is the responsibility of the service provider.
- Routine maintenance of the databases (archiving, purging, performance management etc) is done by a certified database administrator on the payroll of the service provider. |
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