Push-down query capabilities: Five questions to ask your cloud BI provider

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers many benefits, including but not limited to elasticity: the ability to shrink and grow storage and compute resources on demand. Clients of most leading enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms enjoy this cloud elasticity benefit but at a cost. Ultimately, elasticity requires both application and data components (compute and store) to be elastic, and therefore, cloud-native BI platforms require that on-premises data be ingested into the cloud platform before it can be analyzed. But not all organizations are ready to let go of their data from inside their firewalls, and they are not ready to commit to a single cloud provider -- most are opting for a hybrid on-premises and multicloud environment. Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves.