ISV/SaaS vendors typically face a dilemma and if they don't make the right decision they may decline or die.
Should they continue to develop their own analytics or OEM and white label a specialists technology? Assailed by mobile apps on the one hand, apps developed on the salesforce.com platform on the other, and struggling to develop their own IPR from nimble competitors. Life's a bitch!
If you do decide to OEM & white label there are stings in the tail to many a choice. They are well highlighted in the linked content to yurbi below. An ISV or SaaS solutions provider has:-
- Multiple & disparate databases for each customer
- To manage custom database schemas per customer
- Establish multi-tier reporting & analytics
- To deploy SaaS and On-Premise dashboards, analytics and self-service BI
Yurbi has answers and you'll also find them from Logi Analytics. Depending on the complexity and ambition of your strategy either of these deliver viable solutions. Information Builders, Jaspersoft and Pentaho are other options when fully embedding BI and Analytics.
Read the Gartner Critical Capabilities Report for BI and Analytics before engaging with any one vendor.
When you think about SaaS or web application databases, many would conclude that all of the vendor’s data is stored in a single multi-tenant database within the cloud. We find this model to be less common than expected. Many of the SaaS and web-based application vendors who have approached us have multiple databases, designed for each customer. This type of situation can be challenging from a white label or OEM analytics perspective, both in technology and pricing.
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