One of the biggest changes facing buyers, users, and implementers of business analytics software is the shift to cloud solutions. This trend is not only about lowering technology and related maintenance and administration costs, although that is one of the key decision variables for today’s technology purchasers. This IDC whitepaper describes the current and emerging states of business analytics deployments. The broad shift from on-premises to cloud deployments has begun. In this whitepaper, you’ll discuss drivers, some of the roadblocks of cloud-based business analytics solution deployments, and highlights of the offerings from SAP in this market.