This document discusses the benefits of software as a service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) over traditional on-premise BI solutions. SaaS BI offers lower costs, faster deployment times, automatic updates, scalability, ease of use, and mobile access. It explains that SaaS BI solutions have a multitenant architecture and allow for easy customization without affecting the common infrastructure. Traditional on-premise BI implementations can take over 17 months on average and have a low success rate, while SaaS BI typically deploys within days.