In the period from November to December 2016 we conducted a market study on the subject BI as a Service in cooperation with Heilbronn University. The study, attended by 350 experts, deals with the status quo of use of enterprise resource planning (ERP)and business intelligence (BI) applications, as well as with the benefit and needs of BI applications. In addition, reasons for purchase of BI as a Service (BIaaS) as well as advantages of and reservations against BIaaS are highlighted. The detailed study and a summary of the results are available here.