An notable announcement was made in the BI space yesterday as Business Objects introduced its first BI virtual appliance, a flexible and high-value solution designed to radically change how companies evaluate, deploy and manage their business intelligence solutions, making it even faster and easier to transform their businesses through intelligent information. The company is leveraging its relationship with VMware to offer the virtual BI appliance, which is planned to be available in the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace, as well as directly from Business Objects. This solution could be seen as a step in the direction of on-demand software as this solution delivers a pre-installed and pre-configured solution that dramatically reduces installation, configuration, and deployment time. The other foot is firmly rooted on providing the lowering the total cost of ownership, the virtual appliance is an interesting way to offer more flexibility to the customers BI purchase. This is certainly a trend we could continue to see as the strong growth of the virtualization market continues, just take a look at the last 30 days of stock performance by VMware, Jim Cramer must be screaming “Buo-Yah” somewhere.
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