Strict SLAs for Operational Business Intelligence

Today, SLAs for SaaS business applications usually lack stringent service level objectives and significant penalties. Moreover, Operational Business Intelligence features of modern business applications, like analytic dashboards, result in mixed workloads which make it even more difficult to predict execution times accurately due to resource contention. In contrast to the traditional three-tier architecture, an architecture for SaaS business applications should combine application and database layer to allow for processing business transactions and queries according to a queuing approach which enables strict SLAs with stringent response time and throughput guarantees. With stricter SLAs it would be easier to compare different cloud offerings with on-premise solutions and thus cloud computing could become more attractive for potential customers.