Oracle BI Cloud Services (BICS)

BI cloud applications seem to be finally grabbing some acceptance in corporate environments as cloud ERP and other online applications are allowing business to be conducted off premise with the same control and security that CIO’s and IT would have with an on premise solution.  Most of us have been making purchases online, doing taxes online, and been getting so wrapped up in the social media scene that the evolution to Cloud based corporate environments has finally caught up.  Using a solution like Oracle BI Cloud Services (BICS) allows organizations to have a quick, up and running analytics solution that can they utilize against their on premise ERP system without having to go through an ERP upgrade and/or migration to Cloud ERP.  BICS just needs access to the data, and with its wizard-driven data import utility, it lessens the IT development time.  The interactive interface let’s business users and management get right to the issue of answering their data driven questions.