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Complete Enterprise Intelligence Platforms Lower Total Cost of Ownership

A study researching costs of implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) solution shows that organizations that deploy complete BI platforms show lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than those that use solutions from multiple vendors. The TCO concept involves costs related to the acquisition of a BI solution, its deployment and the ongoing use. Responses from executives at 109 companies indicate that SAS customers have the lowest costs associated with their BI solution. The companies surveyed have deployed at least one BI solution from Business Objects, Cognos, SAP or SAS.

"When evaluating vendor offerings, it is important that organizations take not only initial software costs into consideration, but also the costs for maintaining and operating a solution, such as incremental consulting charges, the functionalities of each vendor's platform and their ability to scale," explained Professor Jean Loup Ardoin, the academic guide to the MBA students of HEC School of Management in Paris who conducted the survey. "Of the four vendors evaluated, the student project group concluded that SAS shows the lowest TCO in the substantial IT projects."

"The study endorses our strategy of offering an end-to-end and fully integrated BI platform to lower total cost of ownership," said Tonny Dierckx, Practice Head of Manufacturing at SAS International. The average enterprise has 12 or more different BI tools deployed to address specific requirements of various departments, which leads to duplication of spending and support. Cyrille Broilliard, Director of the Decisional Computing System at CNAF, the French national social services program that allocates 50 billion Euros per year to over 10 million beneficiaries, said that the integration capabilities provided by the SAS platform allowed cost optimisations in terms of internal resources, maintenance and capability that allowed CNAF to extend the project throughout the organization, spanning 123 agencies.


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