In the piece, Darya Nehaychik, technology observer at Itransition, analyses 4 layers in business intelligence delivery process including; physical hosting layer; data storage layer; extract, load, transform (ELT) layer and visualisation layer

The business world experiences a growing demand for near real-time insights into the various aspects of business performance. This means that traditional BI solutions, along with their long deployment cycles, heavy capital expenditures, and the constant reliance on IT to generate reports are rapidly giving way to cloud-hosted solutions.

Source: information-age.com