Business Intelligence as a service in a cloud environment

Business Intellligence should be described as a way of managing our company more than a set of functionalities in a computer software. Acquiring a real profit requires enterprise management to understand the value of the data and the way data describe business processes. Being aware of the business and measuring its performance we are able to improve the processes and make whole the business more effective. To achieve business improvement we require efficient Business Intelligence system as a combination of a software, hardware, the communication infrastructure and services regarding data preparation, integration and delivery to the system. In this paper author considers if the service oriented approach and cloud computing can make BI implementation more efficient.