The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model is disrupting traditional approaches to business analytics. The long deployment cycles, high costs, complicated upgrade processes and IT infrastructure required of traditional on-premise business intelligence solutions are no longer acceptable in the era of on demand.
For my money, Stephen Few is the best source of data visualization expertise. And as a blogger, he is unfiltered and never afraid to tell you what he really thinks. With that in mind, I wanted to dip my toe into the data visualization waters to provide LucidEra customers with a few high-level guidelines to help you determine what type of gadget visualization to consider for your Spring '09 SaaS BI dashboards.