Business Intelligence and the Cloud: Strategic Implementation Guide

How to measure cloud computing options and benefits to impact business intelligence infrastructure

This book is a guide for managers and others involved in using cloud computing to create business value. It starts with a discussion of the media hype around cloud computing and attempt to pull together what industry experts are saying in order to create a unified definition. Once this foundation is created assisting the reader’s understanding of what cloud computing is the discussion moves to getting business benefits from cloud computing. Lastly, the discussion focuses on examples of cloud computing, public clouds, private clouds, and virtualization. The book emphasizes how these technologies can be used to create business value and how they can be integrated into an organizations business intelligence system. It helps the user make a business case for cloud computing applications applications that are used to gather/create data, which in turn are used to generate business intelligence.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Foundation
Chapter 1: A History of How We Got to Cloud Computing
Chapter 2: Characteristics and Service Models
Chapter 3: Deployment Models

Part 2: Cloud Economics
Chapter 4: Strategic Measurement: TCO, ROI, OPEX/CAPEX
Chapter 5: Cloud Adoption: Are Your Organization and Its Stakeholders Ready to Adopt Cloud Computing?
Chapter 6: Service Level Agreements

Part 3: Business Intelligence and the Cloud
Chapter 7: Business Intelligence: The Interaction of Business Intelligence and Cloud Computing
Chapter 8: Big Data’s Effects on BI Efforts in the Cloud
Chapter 9: Mobile Computing Intersection: The Intersection of Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, and Business Intelligence