Product Reviews
IntelliVIEW - an enterprise wide reporting solution
Justify your investment
-James F. Koopmann (Database Expert), 21 Jan 2005
When talking about the benefits or ROI that a product or solution will provide we must turn to the fundamentals of reduction in time and effort that it would take to produce the same results if the product or solution was not used. This is a great place to start and you will definitely recognize a benefit here. Below are a few other fine points or questions you need to answer for determining ROI. Synaptris' customers have experienced a reduction in manpower costs by 25% and report generation time by 30%!
Easily quantitative questions to determine ROI
- Total number of employees
- Number of Users requiring information for reports
- Growth rate of the information needed
- Number of employees in IT needed to generate and maintain reports
- Number of hours these IT employees needed to support information collaboration
- Number of saved man hours by using the Synaptris suite
- Savings in costs by using the Synaptris' IntelliVIEW suite
The Synaptris suite is more than just a reporting tool; it is a method for collaboration and dissemination of information throughout your organization. This aspect is very important when determining the benefits gained by the product. Sure, man-hour savings are important but sometimes the most important question to ask yourself is to whether this is a viable solution. This comes down to the gains achieved by allowing complete information flow to all corners of the company. The benefits will not be seen until you actually implement the system and experience down the road, what you have accomplished. You will then ask yourself how you could have gotten to the place you are at without the implemented solution and your new found ability to make proper decisions with timely information. Here are just a few of the non-quantitative gains you will experience. Track them well if you can.
Non-quantitative gains
- IT hours spent on more productive projects
- Business users having reliable information
- Reduction in analysis time for business users
- Improved decision-making
- Improved efficiencies and streamlined operations
- Improved relationships with customers, suppliers and partners
- Improved cross-functional relationships between business & IT
Synaptris has just put out a new version of their Report Analyzer product.
What better time to go evaluate this product yourself and see the savings to be gained.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/solutions/archives/justify-your-investment-2860
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