New BI Models Driving Pervasive BI
June 5, 2008 9:50 am BI SolutionsFor BI to be pervasive, it has to be affordable.
Conventional BI licensing models have high per-user costs—typically over $1,000 per user. This is providing opportunity for some BI solution vendors to be more creative in their pricing models.
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Bundling – Microsoft’s entry into the BI market has driven down pricing by bundling BI capabilities at low [~$195 per user] with the PerformancePoint Server.
- Active User Only Licence Models – Information Builders – does not require report users to have a license, licences are only required for core server and report developers. By using Ajax to deliver its Active Reports with a high degree of interactivity without requiring a connection back to a BI server makes BI affordable to deploy.
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Open source BI – vendors such as Pentaho and JasperSoft are providing information to a greater number of users without per user licence fees. For instance, JasperSofts FlightStats’ program is available to travellers as well as airlines, making traditional licence models impracticable.
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Software as a Service [SaaS] models – are slashing BI deployment and staffing costs. This model is becoming widely adopted by both established and new vendors. Business Objects CrystalReports.com provides online infrastructure for publishing and sharing reports. Specialty BI SaaS vendors such as LucidEra, PivotLink, and Oco offer pre-built, hosted applications.
BI is still a relatively immature market, and as more onDemand business solutions are becoming popular with large corporates as well as SMB, one can expect to see more radical changes in all software licencing models.
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