BI Effort And Price Estimation Model

July 10th, 2013

Boris Evelson Vice President, Principal Analyst

Martha Bennett VP, Principal Analyst

With contributors:

Holger Kisker, Ph.D. , Nasry Angel

Summary

Initial business intelligence deployment efforts are often difficult to predict and may dwarf the investment you made in BI platform software. The effort and costs associated with professional services, whether you use internal staff or hire contractors, depend not only on the complexity of business requirements like metrics, measures, reports, dashboards, and alerts, but also on the number of data sources you are integrating, the complexity of your data integration processes, and logical and physical data modeling. Forrester recommends using this BI deployment effort estimation tool to improve the accuracy of your BI budget planning and forecasting.

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