As business becomes ever more complex, there is a corresponding push to find solutions which help to filter the noise and to make sense of all of the huge amount of data that organizations are increasingly presented with.

In the cloudy world, this is fundamentally a different problem from what has gone before. Whereas in the past business intelligence consisted of big standalone stacks, large data warehouses and information that is generated after the fact, in the cloudy world it is all about real time and clear visualizations.