I'm working on a presentation to out IT managers in prep for a CE implementation. No news, but the biggest topic in all new efforts is ROI. Does anyone have any hard facts/really convincing lies <g> that show the ROI achievable from implementing CE? How did others of you justify the expenditure?
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ROI Justification
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If you own Crystal Reports 9 Pro, you get RAS 9 for free which includes 3 user licenses. There is no investment cost for that. Or, if you pay $1900US, you can purchase Crystal Adv 9, which comes with CE Standard 9 (which gives you 5 concurrent users).
It depends on how much you want to spend to determine the ROI. Crystal Reports is THE reporting tool and CE will allow you to deploy these over the web, no client needed.
It depends on how much you want to spend to determine the ROI. Crystal Reports is THE reporting tool and CE will allow you to deploy these over the web, no client needed.
synapsevampire
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Hard to say as determining the ROI would be based on your business model, reporting requirements, cost of implementation, current costs, etc.
Crystal has some worksheets that they sometimes share with certain customers to help determine costs of implementation, and you can calculate cost of acquisition and ownership relatively easily, but you'd need to know what your current costs or projected costs are for the same services to be able to use ROI effectively.
For the most part ROI is a buzz word these days and in my estimate, rarely accurately used.
The biz babble behind, Crystal (BO...) has numerous licensing types, and they will work with you to tailor something if they see $ coming in.
Contact Crystal and ask for their help, they'll send out a sales person with a demo, etc.
-k
Crystal has some worksheets that they sometimes share with certain customers to help determine costs of implementation, and you can calculate cost of acquisition and ownership relatively easily, but you'd need to know what your current costs or projected costs are for the same services to be able to use ROI effectively.
For the most part ROI is a buzz word these days and in my estimate, rarely accurately used.
The biz babble behind, Crystal (BO...) has numerous licensing types, and they will work with you to tailor something if they see $ coming in.
Contact Crystal and ask for their help, they'll send out a sales person with a demo, etc.
-k
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