Tag archive for ‘Forrester Research’
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Estimating the cost of Business Intelligence
How much does a single Business Intelligence report cost a company? Well, obviously there is no single answer- but Boris Evelson of Forrester took a shot at it recently in a blog post. Even when it's not an easy question, it is worth pursuing, and Boris lays out a useful discussion. $150 000 is the [...]
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Business Intelligence Workspaces and in memory self serve analysis
In the classical Business Intelligence architecture, users sit at their computers, requesting reports and analysis, and huge central servers churn through the numbers. The dual-core machine on the desk with 2Gb of RAM is asked to do almost nothing. As machines get faster and faster, new tools that use memory are going to create functionality and speed that just hasn't been [...]
