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Everywhere you turn these days the cloud is being talked about. This ambiguous term
seems to encompass almost everything about us. While the cloud is just a metaphor Designing Charts and Graphs: How
for the internet, cloud computing is what people are really talking about these days. to Choose the Right Data
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data. Data visualization is drawing a picture
with your data instead of leaving it in a
spreadsheet or table. Technically, any
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The capabilities and breadth of cloud computing are enormous. The IT industry broke it read more
into three categories to help better dene use cases.
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a) Software as a Service (SaaS) software is owned, delivered and managed remotely
by one or more providers. To start, Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, is a popular way of
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Though the opportunities are great, the cloud computing explosion hasnt come without
challenges. We discussed already some of these cloud computing challenges when
comparing cloud and on premise BI strategies. Now lets go over more of those
challenges organizations are facing, and how they are being addressed.
Below, we have expanded upon some of their ndings and provided additional cloud
computing problemsthat businesses may need to address.
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1. Lack of resources/expertise
For the longest time, security was the number one voiced cloud challenge. In
2016however, lack of resources/expertise inched ahead. Organizations are increasingly
placing more workloads in the cloud while cloud technologies continue to rapidly
advance. Due to these factors organizations are having a hard time keeping up with the
tools. Also, the need for expertise continues to grow. These challenges can be
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2. Security issues
Resource/expertise concerns slightly passed security cloud computing problems in
2016. We already mentioned the hot debate around data security in our BI trends for
2017, andsecurity has indeed been a primary, and valid, concern from the start of cloud
computing technology: you are unable to see the exact location where your data is
stored or being processed. Headlines highlighting data breaches, compromised
credentials and broken authentication, hacked interfaces and APIs, account hijacking
havent helped alleviate concerns. All of this makes trusting sensitive and proprietary
data to a third party hard to stomach for some. Luckily as cloud providers and users,
mature security capabilities are constantly improving. To ensure your organizations
privacy and security is intact, verify the SaaS provider has secure user identity
management, authentication and access control mechanisms in place. Also, check
whichdata security and privacy laws they are subject to.
While you are auditing a providers security and privacy laws, make sure to also conrm
the third biggest issue is taken care of: compliance. Your organization needs to be able
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to comply with regulations and standards, no matter where your data is stored.
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Speaking of storage, also ensure the provider has strict data recovery policies in place.
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3. Cost management and containment
For the most part cloud computing can save businesses money. In the cloud, an
organization can easily ramp up its processing capabilities without making large
investments in new hardware. Businesses can instead access extra processing through
pay-as-you go models from public cloud providers. However, the on-demand and
scalable nature of cloud computing services makes it some times dicult to dene and
project quantities and costs. Luckily there are several ways to keep cloud costs in check
including.
4. Governance/Control
Proper IT governance should ensure IT assets are implemented and used according to
agreed-upon policies and procedures; ensure that these assets are properly controlled
and maintained; and ensure that these assets are supporting your organizations
strategy and business goals. In todays cloud based world, IT does not always have full
control over the provisioning, de-provisioning and operations of infrastructure. This has
increased the diculty for IT to provide the governance, compliance and risk
management required. To mitigate the various risks and uncertainties in transitioning to
the cloud, IT must adapt its traditional IT governance and control processes to include
the cloud. To this effect the role of central IT teams in cloud has been evolving over the
last few years. Along with business units, central IT is increasingly playing a role in
selecting, brokering, and governing cloud services. On top of this third party cloud
computing/management providers are progressively providing governance support and
best practices.
5. Performance
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5. Performance
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When a business moves to the cloud it becomes dependent on the service providers.
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This partnership often provides businesses with innovative technologies they wouldnt
otherwise be able to access. On the other hand the performance of the organizations
BI and other cloud based systems is also tied to the performance of the cloud provider
when it falters. When your provider is down, you are also down.
This isnt uncommon, over the past couple of years all the big cloud players have
experienced outages. Make sure your provider has the right processes in place and
that they will alert you if there is ever an issue.
For the data driven organization real time data is imperative. With an inherent lack of
control that comes with cloud computing, companies may run into real time monitoring
issues. Make sure your SaaS provider has real time monitoring policies in place to help
mitigate these issues.
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In fact, a recent survey by IDC of 6,159 executives found that just 3% of respondents
dene their cloud strategies as optimised. Luckily, centralized IT, strong governance
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While cloud computing challenges do exist, if properly addressed these 6 issues dont
mean your IT roadmap has to remain anchored on-premise. Business intelligence (BI)
and cloud computing are an ideal match, as the rst oneprovides the right information
to the right people while the latteris an agile way to access BI applications. To make the
best out ofit, you should takea strategic iterative approach to implementation, explore
hybrid cloud solutions, involve business and IT teams, invest in a CIO, and choosethe
right BISaaS partner. All this will ensure that the benets of cloud business intelligence
will far outway thechallenges.
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