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Why Choose SaaS BI?

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What is SaaS?

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A way of delivering solutions over the Internet—as a service. Instead of installing and maintaining software at your own organization, you simply access the solution online.

SaaS

– Provider manages application access, including security, availability, and performance.

– All solution updates happen automatically.– Sometimes called on-demand or Web-based software.

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How do you know if it’s really SaaS?A lot of companies claim that they have a SaaS solution. How do you know if they really do or not?

• Multitenant ArchitectureAll users and solutions share a single, common infrastructure that is centrally maintained. Because of this, vendors can both innovate more quickly and lower the overall cost of your solution – a savings that is passed on to you.

• Easy CustomizationUsers can easily customize solutions to fit their business needs without affecting the common infrastructure. Customizations are unique to each company or user and are preserved with each upgrade. This means that upgrades can occur more often, with less risk and lower adoption cost.

• Better Access – from anywhere with an internet connectionAccess to data from any networked device. It’s also easy to manage privileges, monitor data use, and ensure that everyone can have access to the most updated information.

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Why Choose SaaS?

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What are the benefits of SaaS?

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• Lower Initial and Ongoing Costs – No big upfront software and hardware costs– Subscription based – costs are predictably spread over life of

subscription– Lower demands on your IT organization

SaaS Cost Profile Traditional Software Cost Profile

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What are the benefits of SaaS?

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• The Most Recent Version for Everyone, Automatically Delivered

– All updates and upgrades managed for you; no patches to install– Availability managed for you - no need to add hardware, software, or

bandwidth as user base grows

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What are the benefits of SaaS?

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Users Data VolumeIntegration with Key Systems

• High Scalability and Seamless Integration – True multitenant architectures: scales to meet customer demand– APIs for integration to other business systems

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What are the benefits of SaaS?

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• High Adoption, by More Users– Available from any internet-connected computer or any device– Built for ease of use - high adoption rates, with a lower learning curve.

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What’s different about SaaS?• No Vendor Lock-in

Subscription based, with low IT demands. • Affordable to get started and scale

No hardware or software to buy, no huge upfront costs. Buy small, prove it out, and easily expand.

• Maintenance hassles are handled for you.One platform, automatically updated.

 • Fast learning curve and high adoption.

Built for ease of use by a wide range of users.

• Always up to date.Rapid innovation cycles, automatically delivered.

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Why Choose SaaS BI?

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Traditional On-Premise BI is powerful but it’s…

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complex resource

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Average implementation is 17 months, with low success rate.

• Average implementation time is too long1:

– 17 months in total; 5 months to deploy the first usable analytic application

• Mean annual cost of BI software is high2:

– $1.1 million for companies with >1,000 employees

• Project success rate is low1:– 31% success rate, at best

• Not getting right data to the right people2:

– Only 36% are confident that reports and dashboards deliver the right data, to the right person, at the right time

1 DM Review & IDC Business Intelligence Survey, October 2006, 2004 (Material on implementation time not available in 2006 survey)2 InfoWorld & IDC Business Intelligence Survey, October 2007

57% of deployments take over a year!

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It’s very painful. Here’s why.

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Traditional BI 3-year Cost Dis-tribution

Annual Staffing

37%

Initial Build13%

Hardware15%

Software25%

Down-time10%

Source: IDC

Software and hardware are only 40% of costs – the rest is people cost and downtime cost.

Environment Acquisition, Set-up, Maintenance & Downtime

Data Movement, Logical Modeling and Ongoing Enhancements & Maintenance

Report Building & Maintenance and End User Support

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No wonder more companies are turning to SaaS BI.

The SaaS BI market will experience triple the growth of the overall market, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 22.4% through 2013.

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Source: IDG News Service, February 1, 2010

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And here’s why:

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Top Reasons Companies Pursue On-Demand BI

BI maintenance workload prevents widespread deployment

Budget reductions for IT

BI Projects take too long, too resource hungry

Need to provide BI to many small workgroups with diverse needs

Conventional BI tools too complex for some users

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%Percentage of Respondents

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Fundamentally Better: The SaaS BI Core Value Proposition

• The Power You Need– A comprehensive solution– Scales to fit your business– Heavyweight BI, not “light” BI

• When You Need It– Typically deploys within days, not years

• For All of Your Users– Easy enough for business users, powerful enough for IT

• Everywhere– Anywhere you have an internet connection, including

mobile

• At a Cost You Can Afford – now and in the future

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Learn more about SaaS BI

www.SaaSBusinessIntelligence.com

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