TY - CHAP AU - Abello, A. AU - Romero, O. T2 - Business intelligence SP - 156 EP - 185 PB - Springer Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-642-27357-5 DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-27358-2 UR - http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-27358-2/page/1 AB - The traditional way to manage Information Technologies (IT) in the companies is having a data center, and licensing monolithic applications based on the number of CPUs, allowed connections, etc. This also holds for Business Intelligence environments. Nevertheless, technologies have evolved and today other approaches are possible. Specifically, the service paradigm allows to outsource hardware as well as software in a pay-as-you-go model. TI - Service-oriented business intelligence ER -