IT benefits from big vendor’s slow on-demand plays. Indeed, in Ephraim Schwartz’s words, “hesitations and nascent efforts from the big players open the floodgates for a deluge of even more vendors.”By “big players” Schwartz means the likes of SAP and Microsoft, while a host of startups is emerging to offer what the old guard cannot. Take PivotLink. This SaaS BI vendor makes it easier than, say, SAP because PivotLink customers can send a simple flat file which PivotLink then analyzes and processes in memory for a real-time response. “What might be bad news for SAP is good news for companies that want choice and flexibility without tying up their budgets for the next year or two,” Schwarts writes in this week’s Reality Check. Software Development