Why Web-based Business Intelligence Software?
In the last few years, there has been a race towards web-based business intelligence software. Legacy BI companies that had started out with desktop applications started to slowly adapt their product to the web, while numerous upstart BI companies popped up whose mission was to provide the market with web-based BI solutions built from scratch. Is there a reason why desktop BI applications became near-obsolete in favor of web-based solutions? There are several, but with a few caveats. First of all, there is the issue of accessibility. With a web-based BI solution, users are not tied to their office PC or even to their laptop computer. With the better web-based solutions on the market, all users need to access their reports is a device featuring Internet connection. This frees them to move around, travel, visit clients, etc., while having complete access to real-time data. Then, a web-based solution has easy, familiar navigation. Unless your users have lived in a cave for the past ten or
