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This strategy is not without its detractors. For companies that typically consider
only a few capital-intensive IT budget requests annually, the smaller incremental
requests to fund phased deployments may disrupt the established budgetary process.
Secondly, departmental infighting may engender a “not built here” sentiment that acts
as a roadblock to a wider rollout regardless of demonstrated initial success. Finally,
customers who have an urgent need for an enterprise-wide solution may not require the
incremental approach to prove value. They are acutely aware of their needs and they
need a BI solution “yesterday”.
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DI’s unique approach to report development DI’s focus on self-sufficiency coupled with its
means that no SQL code or other cumbersome unique technology also places significantly
scripting language is required to build fewer demands on internal IT departments,
sophisticated reports and graphical data allowing end-users to rapidly deploy their
displays. Simple point and click functionality own BI-based project initiatives without
ensures that even novice users can automate IT intervention. Self service reporting
the reports needed to perform their jobs ensures that IT help desks will not be
more efficiently. A rich suite of customization logging requests for report creation, while
options allow users to develop visually database independence frees IT personnel
impactful reports, all without coding. from the associated maintenance overhead.
Likewise, role-based report and content These factors contribute to DI’s ability
dissemination is a straightforward task thanks to successfully and rapidly deploy BI
to DI’s Broadcast component. applications at the project level and then
transition to providing enterprise-wide BI as
A third factor contributing to DI’s rapid
the organization’s information requirements
deployment capabilities hinges on The
and needs evolve.
Diver Solution’s unique technology. Unlike
conventional OLAP tools, Diver does not flexible licensing and seamless scalability
rapidly expand BI coverage to additional DI’s tiered licensing plan offers attractive of automating
report creation
departments in a cost effective manner. per-seat pricing for the large population of
Other aspects of The Diver Solution that casual users that can derive significant and
are highly valued by customers include the rapid productivity benefits from role-based
extensive and detailed documentation base self-service reporting.
and DI’s maintenance program. According
As the phased deployment strategy delivers
to Aberdeen Group’s February 2008 TCO
its initial success stories, budgetary and
survey, 89% of customers surveyed benefit
capacity constraints may bottleneck further
from DI’s annual software maintenance
inter-departmental expansion initiatives. DI
program compared to only 80% of best-in-
mitigates these constraints in several ways:
class organizations.
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• Flexible-timeframe software lease options gain the benefits of pervasive bi using
“dimensional insight has also achieved an that can be tailored to cover additional phased deployment Let Dimensional Insight’s
average value delivered score, rivaling and user licenses until the next budget cycle experienced team of consultants show you
slightly beating the scores of some very
or even longer. how our proven phased deployment strategy
large competitors. the company’s focus
can make pervasive business intelligence
on developing industry-focused solutions • InterReport, a secure, hosted, browser-
has resulted in a very dedicated and loyal a reality for your company. Empower your
accessible reporting and analytics platform
following. many customers have been employees with The Diver Solution’s user-
that presents The Diver Solution’s familiar
working with the company for a decade centric approach to self-service reporting
user interface and functionality at a low
or more.” and analytics, while deriving rapid ROI from
monthly subscription rate.
your early successes without having to break
aberdeen group
• For customers with on-premise your budget. Find out more by visiting us at
installations, DI has a proven hardware www.dimins.com or calling 920.436.8299.
scalability roadmap that describes how
to seamlessly expand existing server
capacity to accommodate anywhere from
dozens to hundreds or even thousands of
additional users.
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