Research Brief: Big Data and the Cloud

Business analytics are increasingly critical to organizations’ decision support processes. However, as new sources of data are made available and volumes continue to grow, traditional business analytics implementations often plateau in their ability to scale in a practical or cost-effective manner. Organizations may find that leveraging next generation data analytics platforms delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model can potentially mitigate the costs and risks associated with buying and implementing on-premises solutions.