One week into the release of our BI platform-as-a-service, a few of our Early Access Customers are starting to do amazing things. What’s stunning is the diversity of usage that we are already seeing. Here are a few highlights.

• A hot new SaaS provider wants to provide marketing analytics to help 100s of their customers justify the spend on their service. They don’t have the internal expertise or time to roll their own BI. They looked at some open source tools, but it was way too much work to get to basic reports and dashboards for their customers. GoodData BI PaaS lets them create custom dashboards for their customers - all with a shared data model - and automate the process to boot.
• A BI consulting company wants to get out of the BI plumbing business. They spend way too much time today procuring and provisioning infrastructure as opposed to providing higher-value consulting services. Accessing GoodData together with their ETL tool of choice turns out to be the key to getting them productive in Cloud BI.
• An existing GoodData customer wants to automate the regular loading of data from a few internal databases into GoodData, and be able to change metrics, add data sources, and link data together without hitting the dreaded BI project reset button. They’re pretty confident BI PaaS is going to save them tons of time on prepping and loading data for their dashboards.

What do you want to do with BI PaaS? Join us for a live demo on July 13 and learn if it’s a good fit for you.