In what is probably not a shocker, new research shows more companies are turning to SaaS-based business intelligence over traditional on-premises BI. Business intelligence, or analytics software from such companies as SAP(s SAP) (which bought BusinessObjects for this purpose), MicroStrategy (s mstr) or Oracle(s orcl) (which bought Hyperion) helps companies make sense of their data — to visualize what’s happening with sales or marketing pushes, for example, and to make sales forecasts. But now those …
