BI Belt Tightening In A Tough economic Climate

While having multiple options and alternatives is always a good thing, don’t get too excited about lower initial costs. Based on our ongoing client interactions, Forrester stimates that at least 80% of any BI effort lies in data sourcing, data integration, data cleansing, and modeling — steps that do not offer a cheap and quick work-around. So while lower-cost BI alternatives will save you some dollars in building reports and dashboards, that’s only 20% of your cost and effort. When your BI projects grow large, complex, and recurring, consider new innovative vendors that automate some of the data discovery and end-to-end BI life-cycle management (BIReady).