There's been much press on this lately. We've long held that whilst there's a future in cloud computing and software-as-a-service, the current limitations in reliability and privacy mean a pure-play cloud solution is unlikely to ever be truly viable....

I'm a little tardy picking this one up... http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/business_intell_2.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL ... but I love stories like this. BI is very much a productivity exercise.  In this case it's more about...