Affecto Oyj : Get Your Head Out of the Cloud—Move Your BI There Instead

A major part of your business operations is most likely already in the cloud, including the data. It's only natural to move your BI to the cloud as well.

Cloud-based BI solution makes it possible to share insights with people working outside the organisation network; Not only customers but also employees and partners on business trips.

With cloud-based analytics, you can give your network access to internal resources securely but without a complex security infrastructure. And this is only one of the many benefits why you should consider moving your BI to the cloud.

The cloud solution will cut costs of hosting on internal servers, infrastructure and maintenance. All updates will be applied automatically by the cloud vendor, which means there's no need for expensive and time-consuming upgrading projects. Instead, you'll always have the most recent and secure version in use.

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Pay for what you need, not for what you might need

The licensing model for cloud-based BI solution is much more flexible compared to on-premise solutions. You can purchase exactly the licenses you need on a monthly or yearly basis, which means you only pay for what you need, nothing more. You can say goodbye to slow and sluggish systems as the system performance is taken care of by the vendor.

Thanks to the smart synchronisation, self-service tools can be used in the cloud without uploading the data to the cloud. The collaboration and sharing with colleagues and business partners will get easier; Long gone are the days when we kept sending the same files back and forth until at least one of the users lost track of the most up-to-date version and messed up the whole file.

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'Within a few years, 92% percent of workloads will be processed by cloud data centers; versus only eight percent being processed by traditional data centers.' -Joe McKendrick, Forbes tech contributor

Cloud-based BI enables real time collaboration and sharing through meeting rooms located in the cloud. Having your BI environment in the cloud allows you to make decisions through digital boardrooms where you can invite the people involved.

Today, even the smallest companies can go global, and the collaboration between different regions and time zones only keep increasing. Cloud-based solution allows you to collaborate when the time and place is right for you, wherever in the world you are at the time.

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You don't have to give up on on-premise

Cloud-based BI has a considerably better scalability compared to on-premise solutions. However, moving your BI to the cloud doesn't mean you need to give up on the on-premise solution you've already invested in. A hybrid solution is most often the way to go with many organisations. You can choose which functionalities stay on-prem, which ones are more beneficial in the cloud, or go for the cloud completely.

Even if the aim was to move all BI into the cloud eventually, you could start little by little. Rome wasn't built in a day, remember?

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Cloud-based BI environment allows having different business areas in one solution offering a full-blown view of your operations. The cloud solution can and will grow at the same pace with your business. Getting started is easy and effortless; Setting up a trial doesn't take more than five minutes, and you're ready to go and fly high in the clouds.

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