Infoflow Total Cost of Ownership
Disparate systems, multiple tools and the cost of deployment are all barriers to timely access and effective use of information to help in day to day operational decision making. Users would prefer one mechanism to deliver or make available only the reports they need at the time convenient to them, in the form they require, from all the disparate reporting systems in use. Organisations would prefer to rationalise their applications and reduce costs in order to deliver this information as effectively and efficiently as possible.
The complexity of too many tools and too many reports that are not visible across the enterprise can be significant. The first of these is that users cannot see what reports exist across all the tools in the enterprise to identify what might be relevant to their jobs and what reports might help them become more effective if they had access to them. The result is that users:
- Do not get the information they need at the time they need it in the format that they require.
- Spend large amounts of time being unproductive simply looking for information.
- Re-invent reports on the tools they know how to use if the data they need is available.
- Spend time emailing colleagues distracting them from their jobs in order to get them to run reports on their behalf and to email them the output. They then cut and paste this information into the tools they know how to use without any knowledge of whether or not the data has been manipulated before it was sent to them.
- Make business decisions 'flying blind' and hoping that 'experience' will guide them, rather than opting for an alternative that they believe would mean spending hours trying to get at all the information they need. This kind of decision making could have major bottom line consequences.
- Rely on a 'power user' in their department to try to get the information they need.
Infoflow manages and processes reports from multiple disparate systems and makes them accessible and available to users without them having to log in or use the technology that created them.
According to Gartner around 80% of user's only want to read, prompt and re-query information, so why deploy an expensive business intelligence licence with functionality they don't need?
Infoflow enables organisations to make better and more effective use of their business information at a much reduced cost.
Organisations often fail to achieve a suitable return on their investments in business intelligence technology because the cost of licences and support prevents them from being deployed more widely. This problem is exacerbated for organisations that use multiple reporting technologies.
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