Business intelligence as a technology service is following the growing trend of being offered as a cloud-based application (as opposed to an internally managed resource for an organization).

The goal of this discussion is to explore the trend to move BI services onto the cloud and how that shift might impact any (or all) of the following:

• Data security
• Ethics and Privacy
• Employment, hiring, and professional development
• Growth of BI in general
• Other impacts omitted above