Over on the Forrester Blog, Boris Evelson has written an interesting post about the real cost of creating a single BI report in the enterprise. He estimates a price tag of between $1,840 and $20K per report after one factors in expenditures on software, services, salaries, hardware etc.
He suggests four general approaches to lowering BI costs, and PowerPivot neatly enables at least two of the four strategies.
Is PowerPivot a BI panacea? Nah, of course not. But intelligently leveraged, I believe the tool will drive down costs associated with creating BI reports.
