Forrester Total Economic Impact Study

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If you didn't get a chance to watch this mornings launch keynote, check it out here: www.the2010event.com



Stephen Elop started the keynote with a Forrester study that talks about the total time and cost savings that a sample company might gain from implementing Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010. The study took into account the use of Excel with PowerPivot for data analysis and sharing KPIs using dashboards and scorecards, and includes a section devoted to cost savings from deploying BI.



Economic Impact Excerpts for Microsoft Business Intelligence:



Page 19 – “Improved reporting - incorporating, analyzing, and sharing of data. By using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, particularly the tools available in Excel and PowerPivot, some of the customers interviewed noted that heavy BI-users within their organizations could reduce the time it took to prepare reports. One BI analyst interviewed noted, -Productivity reports used to take me 8 to 9 hours to complete. Now with tools like PowerPivot, I can build the initial report in 1 to 2 hours. Then even more savings come into play because PowerPivot pulls from live data sources, automatically making adjustments that were time consuming in the past.? Another customer estimated that with implementing SharePoint 2010, using PowerPivot with pre-prepared tables and -one point of entry? for BI, their users could reduce report production time and increase productivity for these users by an hour a day.”



Page 22 -”The composite organization has also reduced BI architect demand of 4,000 hours annually by 50% at a cost of $200 an hour. Total cost avoidance savings for the organization is $1,479,300 over three years.”



The paper is available here:



· TEI of Implementing Microsoft’s Productivity Platform









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