The story of 2009? Enterprise disruption?

December 2008 from Scobleizer.com - “…So, why did this catch my eye? First, they are taking something very expensive, Business Intelligence charting and dashboarding, and making it free. That alone is pretty disruptive. When Microsoft is charging $a few hundred a seat (and Microsoft is disrupting lots of other players in the market who charge a lot more than that) you know there’s disruption when some new player comes along and under prices everyone.

But don’t focus on that disruption.

Instead, look at the bigger picture. Here they are using Google spreadsheets to bring you live, collaborative, business intelligence. Watch the second video to see how different this is from most of the “old-school” approaches that haven’t yet built on a platform designed for the web from the start.

See that’s the real disruption: there’s a new platform being built. Right now it’s ugly and incomplete. But every year it gets better and better. Will 2009 be the year when lots of you try out a web-based collaboration suite like the ones from Zoho or Google?...”

180 View – It’s still early days for free BI over the internet. Once the kinks are ironed out, Google/Panorama need to overcome the resistance of many companies to let their data reside on someone else’s server (in the clouds). Second, the majority of business analysts will be reluctant to drop their beloved Excel.