Cloud technologies can change the way organizations do analytics. The cloud enables organizations to move quickly and utilize best-of-breed technologies. Traditionally, data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) projects were considered a serious investment and took years to build. They required a solid team of business intelligence, data warehouse, and data integration developers and architects. Moreover, they required significant investments, IT support, and hardware and resource purchases. Even if you had the team, budget, and hardware in place, there was still a chance you would fail.