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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.

To succeed in your job, you make decisions every day based on your grasp and outlook for your business. In today's difficult economic climate, if something goes wrong, saying "I didn't know" is not a good excuse. To maximize your success you need good visibility into your business.