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In contrast to the customary BI solutions the perfect BI architecture should

• have short latency periods - offer real time access (Real Time BI)
• need no Data Warehouse - work without additional servers (Server-less Technology)
• need no ETL-interlayer - directly access the different systems and databases (Multiple Source Simple Output, abbr. MSSO)
• allow the evaluation and also the data mutation in the source systems (Multiple Source Simple Input, abbr. MSSI)
• run secure and with high performance on the Internet
• be implemented simply and be administered and served intuitively
• be integratable and able to integrate existing system environments
• be inexpensive in realisation and operation
• support the processing of Binary & Character Large Objects (abbr. BLOB, CLOB e.g., picture-, audio-, video-data, document-files)
• actively initiate and integrate workflow and communication processes (mailing, messaging, video conference, telephony)
• support personalised central applications
  

With such a BI system (Business Intelligence 2.0) the error risk would be a close zero and the data would be highly actual (latency periods in the range from seconds to minutes). The efficiency would be extremely high because the MSSI/O functionality (Multiple Source Simple Input/Output) realised direct evaluation and manipulation of data in the source systems. Besides, data flow would be multidirectional across domain barriers and would run on a real-time basis.

What may now sound like a naive list of wishes to many IT experts has become reality in April, 2008. The company cyFlex has developed a BI architecture which fulfils all dots listed on top. Launching their product cySystem, complex BI applications can be built up in few hours and run on the Internet, only with the help of a text editor and skills in SQL.