1. Forrester Consulting’s TEI Study Parameters
Goal:
To better understand the potential
ROI that companies may realize after
implementing SAP BusinessObjects
Analytics
Assessment method:
Based on interview responses, Forrester Consulting aggregated the results and created a
composite organization that employs 10,000 workers including 4,000 data developers,
managers, and consumers.
Analytics solutions studied:
Interviewed:
Four companies from around the world
with multiple years of experience that
use SAP BusinessObjects Analytics
Planning Business intelligence Predictive analytics
Predictive analytics provided the insight necessary to proactively avoid dangerous incidents and reduce risk, leading to:
Risk and Incident Reduction
Lower annual costs
through risk avoidance
Fewer incidents
$3.2 million 30%
Reduction in
employee turnover
5%
Calculating the Economic
Impact of Analytics
SAP® BusinessObjects™ Analytics solutions help customers gain the full
value of their business data
That’s why SAP offers the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Analytics
portfolio. These solutions help you increase your bottom line by:
Improving business
processes
Healthcare Software and services Transportation Consulting services
SAP commissioned the independent firm Forrester Consulting to assess the financial impact of our analytics
solutions on companies across four different industry segments:
Based on in-depth customer interviews, Forrester Consulting produced the study,“The Total Economic Impact™ Of
SAP BusinessObjects Analytics,” which detailed how customers are using analytics from SAP to:
Enabling predictive
scenarios
Supporting self-service
data discovery
Analytics solutions can reveal answers to important questions about your business. Yet, too
many tools are slow, inflexible, and difficult to use. What good is a historical view of your business,
when you need real-time insight and the ability to model and forecast the future?
Self-service visualization for faster insights
Save money Reduce risk Gain insight faster
Self-service tools made it easier for workers to create and manage reports, delivering benefits of:
Rethink Analytics
Learn More
Your business data contains answers to questions about how you can run your enterprise
more effectively, efficiently, and profitably. Deployed on premise or in the cloud, SAP
solutions can help you better understand your business, simplify the enterprise, and
transform your future. Reimagine your business with SAP BusinessObjects Analytics.
Read the full, commissioned October 2016 study, “The Total Economic Impact™ Of SAP BusinessObjects
Analytics,” conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of SAP, at www.sap.com/analytics-tei.
Time required for
report creation Additional annual savings
From 65 hours
to 1 hour
$376,000–
$752,400
Savings from ease of report
creation
Up to 28,800
hours
Based on risk-adjusted financial results over a three-year period, measured improvements were as high as
US$6.76 million each year, resulting in total benefits of:
SAP BusinessObjects Analytics helped identify cost-effective best practices to drive process improvement and
standardization, yielding:
Net present value ROI
Financial Benefits
Business Process Improvements
$10.24 million 171%
Annual savings in
process costs
Reduction in process
or task costs
$2.4 million
Cost savings
for each task
$6,000 60%
with a
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