6 ways Infoflow recovers the cost of your investment

Infoflow does two things - it saves money by reducing costs - and it makes you money by making your organisation more competitive.

First things first - this is how it reduces costs.

The OLAP Report stated that "Business Intelligence information remains too expensive to deploy across the entire organisation."

To back up that assertion, Guy Creese in DM Review wrote, "Only 10 to 20 per cent of an enterprise's workforce regularly uses a BI tool."

The primary reason for this is that, up until now, every time an organisation added more users to the system they had to pay for further licences.

This applied to every reporting system they had, regardless of how little information a user may require from each system.

Quite sensibly, most companies limited access to information to the power users within their organisation.

Infoflow reduces additional licensing costs

Using Infoflow to extract the information that individuals want - analyzing and storing it - and then distributing it according to need - can have a dramatic effect upon costs.

  1. Early indications are that it reduces the direct cost of additional licences by 59%.
  2. Support and training costs are also reduced. In one instance, this looked likely to be by 78% in a full year.
  3. Business Intelligence deployment costs also come down. Here, our estimate is by as much as a third.
  4. There are also savings to be made through the reduced need for handling user reporting requests.
  5. Finally, indications also show significant reductions in collation and distribution costs. For large organisations, this could be as much as two days of a person's time per department per week.

Increased competitiveness also brings financial benefits

Infoflow isn't simply about moving information around an organisation more cheaply, though.

Its major benefit is the manner in which it makes all of your staff more knowledgeable.

  1. So, although cost savings are important, it is the greater use of Business Intelligence by more people which will be the biggest financial benefit you will enjoy.