Towards a Business Intelligence Cloud

The requirements for Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting instruments are increasing since many years. Reporting instruments must be proactive, integrated, flexible and always available. They have to offer self-service functions and deal with the growing amount of data. In view of these requirements, the characteristics of cloud computing show a revolutionary character. First 'BI Cloud' offers are already available on the mar-ket. However, the lack of a standardized architecture as well as the lack of understanding of the features and advantages of analytical applications in the cloud causes that currently only a few companies use BI in the Cloud. To support the standardization and development of analytical applications delivered as a cloud service the University of Anonymous designed a reference model for BI in the Cloud in an ongoing research project. From this research project this position paper reports: The topics cloud computing and BI are merged, the resulting benefit of BI in the cloud is shown and our ap-proach for standardization is presented.