The document is a case study report on the total economic impact of implementing Beckon, a marketing intelligence platform. It finds that Beckon provides organizations with benefits such as 12.7% average improvement in return on marketing spend, over $9 million in improved marketing investment performance, and over $1 million in reduced reporting costs. It also reduces marketing analytics headcount needs. The report estimates a composite organization would see a 513% return on investment from Beckon with over $8.5 million in benefits and a payback period of 7 months.
Heap provides a platform for customer data infrastructure and analytics that enables such digital intelligence, allowing organizations to gather customer behavioral data from many sources, analyze it in the platform,and automatically load the data into third-party data stores for specialized
storage, analysis and activation — helping organizations improve offerings
with speed and agility. Heap commissioned Forrester Consulting to
conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Heap.
This survey of over 70 finance executives examined current trends and best practices in budgeting and planning. Key findings include:
- Larger companies (over $50M revenue) tend to use corporate performance management tools instead of spreadsheets for more complex needs.
- Using rolling forecasts (frequent updates) reduces the effort for finance teams and budget managers compared to annual budgets.
- Simplifying the budgeting process by focusing on key metrics and reducing unnecessary line items can significantly improve efficiency.
- Enabling scenario analysis and "what if" modeling improves budgeting efficiency and makes budgets more useful management tools.
Tei partner opportunity for microsoft 365 business july 2018Allessandra Negri
The document provides an analysis of the business opportunities and potential revenue models for Microsoft partners in establishing a practice focused on Microsoft 365 Business. It finds that partners can generate average revenue of $1,284 per user over three years, with average gross profits of $413 per user. Key revenue opportunities for partners include reselling Microsoft 365 Business licenses, professional services, managed services, and resale of proprietary intellectual property solutions. The analysis provides estimates of the revenue and profits partners may generate through various models and investments needed to establish and scale a Microsoft 365 Business practice.
Organizations use a combination of tools and policies to track procurement costs, but spend analytics software provides a more strategic approach. Spend analytics software aggregates data from various systems to analyze purchasing patterns and identify cost savings opportunities. It also enhances traditional cost tracking by adding important operational and supplier context. Vendors are expanding performance management solutions to include spend analytics applications that support both cost management and strategic decision making for procurement.
Wr bap program success metrics 28-june-2019 smc jc (v3)Jaime Brown
The document proposes metrics to measure the success of a new Business Administration Platform (BAP) program. It identifies six primary metrics: effort, support, adoption, not-in-good-order (NIGO) rates, cycle time, and sales. Secondary and tertiary metrics are also outlined to provide more granular data and serve as leading indicators. Baselines must be set before BAP deployment to enable tracking of improvements. A scorecard will be developed and updated weekly to monitor progress and trends. Feedback from upcoming field office visits may influence further refinement of the metrics.
Best practices in spending analysis - cure for a corporate epidemicNaman Verma
Best practices in spending analysis - cure for a corporate epidemic, this will help users on the learning of Spend Analysis and key factors affecting spend of any organization
Do you have the right tools to measure your financial performance? Do you know what elements are necessary to guide your business? Based on last year's rave reviews, Autotask's own Chief Financial Officer, Vince Zumbo, will return to lay out the fundamentals of planning and monitoring your financials for success. Vince will be aided by Autotask Product Manager Joe Rourke who will demonstrate how you can apply what you've learned by leveraging Autotask to support your business' optimal financial health. This session is full of tips, templates and insights that are used by financial professionals today and can be used by organizations of all sizes.
[Presenters: Vince Zumbo & Patrick Burns, Autotask]
The document is a Forrester Consulting study on the total economic impact of Microsoft Power BI. It includes:
1) Interviews with six existing Power BI customers that found benefits including decreased wasted end user time, reduced reporting iterations, improved product development cycles, and redeployed BI developers.
2) A financial analysis of a composite organization that found a 625% return on investment, $2.4 million in annual benefits per 3,000 users, and a three-year net present value of $18.5 million from costs of $3 million and benefits of $21.4 million.
3) Costs included Power BI licensing, data preparation, and user training while benefits included increased productivity,
Heap provides a platform for customer data infrastructure and analytics that enables such digital intelligence, allowing organizations to gather customer behavioral data from many sources, analyze it in the platform,and automatically load the data into third-party data stores for specialized
storage, analysis and activation — helping organizations improve offerings
with speed and agility. Heap commissioned Forrester Consulting to
conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Heap.
This survey of over 70 finance executives examined current trends and best practices in budgeting and planning. Key findings include:
- Larger companies (over $50M revenue) tend to use corporate performance management tools instead of spreadsheets for more complex needs.
- Using rolling forecasts (frequent updates) reduces the effort for finance teams and budget managers compared to annual budgets.
- Simplifying the budgeting process by focusing on key metrics and reducing unnecessary line items can significantly improve efficiency.
- Enabling scenario analysis and "what if" modeling improves budgeting efficiency and makes budgets more useful management tools.
Tei partner opportunity for microsoft 365 business july 2018Allessandra Negri
The document provides an analysis of the business opportunities and potential revenue models for Microsoft partners in establishing a practice focused on Microsoft 365 Business. It finds that partners can generate average revenue of $1,284 per user over three years, with average gross profits of $413 per user. Key revenue opportunities for partners include reselling Microsoft 365 Business licenses, professional services, managed services, and resale of proprietary intellectual property solutions. The analysis provides estimates of the revenue and profits partners may generate through various models and investments needed to establish and scale a Microsoft 365 Business practice.
Organizations use a combination of tools and policies to track procurement costs, but spend analytics software provides a more strategic approach. Spend analytics software aggregates data from various systems to analyze purchasing patterns and identify cost savings opportunities. It also enhances traditional cost tracking by adding important operational and supplier context. Vendors are expanding performance management solutions to include spend analytics applications that support both cost management and strategic decision making for procurement.
Wr bap program success metrics 28-june-2019 smc jc (v3)Jaime Brown
The document proposes metrics to measure the success of a new Business Administration Platform (BAP) program. It identifies six primary metrics: effort, support, adoption, not-in-good-order (NIGO) rates, cycle time, and sales. Secondary and tertiary metrics are also outlined to provide more granular data and serve as leading indicators. Baselines must be set before BAP deployment to enable tracking of improvements. A scorecard will be developed and updated weekly to monitor progress and trends. Feedback from upcoming field office visits may influence further refinement of the metrics.
Best practices in spending analysis - cure for a corporate epidemicNaman Verma
Best practices in spending analysis - cure for a corporate epidemic, this will help users on the learning of Spend Analysis and key factors affecting spend of any organization
Do you have the right tools to measure your financial performance? Do you know what elements are necessary to guide your business? Based on last year's rave reviews, Autotask's own Chief Financial Officer, Vince Zumbo, will return to lay out the fundamentals of planning and monitoring your financials for success. Vince will be aided by Autotask Product Manager Joe Rourke who will demonstrate how you can apply what you've learned by leveraging Autotask to support your business' optimal financial health. This session is full of tips, templates and insights that are used by financial professionals today and can be used by organizations of all sizes.
[Presenters: Vince Zumbo & Patrick Burns, Autotask]
The document is a Forrester Consulting study on the total economic impact of Microsoft Power BI. It includes:
1) Interviews with six existing Power BI customers that found benefits including decreased wasted end user time, reduced reporting iterations, improved product development cycles, and redeployed BI developers.
2) A financial analysis of a composite organization that found a 625% return on investment, $2.4 million in annual benefits per 3,000 users, and a three-year net present value of $18.5 million from costs of $3 million and benefits of $21.4 million.
3) Costs included Power BI licensing, data preparation, and user training while benefits included increased productivity,
Most organizations have moved toward or plan to move toward centralized and standardized business intelligence technologies. While over 40% rate the success of their BI implementations positively, many are still in the early lifecycle stages. The top benefit cited is using real-time data to make better decisions. However, the greatest challenges are the cost of relevant software and licenses as well as a lack of end-user training.
Business Performance Solutions Clash Of The Titans The Market Remains Vibrant...Cezar Cursaru
This document provides an executive summary of a Forrester Research report on the business performance solutions (BPS) software market. It finds that the BPS market has seen significant growth and vendor consolidation in recent years. Forrester expects BPS software revenues to grow 12.7% through 2012 to $3.2 billion, despite temporary slowing due to the recession. The market is dominated by six large vendors, but also includes smaller BI, ERP, and pure-play BPS vendors. The report provides an overview of the BPS software category and functional elements.
401(k) Advisors service model starts with a Fiduciary Fitness program, Including a Fiduciary Investment and plan review and providor benchmarking analysis. Our RFP and provider search process is second to none where we gather over 300 data points on each provider and provide a detailed breakdown of Fees, Fund performance, and service. Our propriatery investment scorecard system takes in to account, Investment style, risk, peer group ranking, and qualitative analysis to help plan sponsors provide the necessary investment due dilligence to satisfy their fiduciary compliance obligations.
This document discusses various types of financial statement analytics used in accounting. Descriptive analytics include ratio analysis to evaluate relationships between financial items and assess a company's performance. Vertical analysis shows financial statement items as a percentage of a base figure. Horizontal analysis compares historical financial data year-over-year. Diagnostic analytics use benchmarks to provide context for a company's performance relative to competitors. Predictive analytics aim to forecast future performance. XBRL facilitates computer-readable financial reporting and supports timely financial analysis.
1) The document outlines best practices and potential pitfalls for using business intelligence (BI) dashboards based on the presenter's experience implementing BI initiatives.
2) It discusses how to effectively design dashboards to communicate key metrics to stakeholders, avoid common implementation pitfalls, and reviews an example dashboard from a top US wireless operator.
3) The presentation emphasizes the importance of data quality, integration standards, and aligning dashboard metrics with organizational strategy for successful long-term dashboard use.
Ben Chamberlain, UMT360: PPM + Financial Intelligence = Greater ROIUMT
Ben Chamberlain, UMT360 gave this presentation at Microsoft and UMT event Project Portfolio Management Exchange at Microsoft San Francisco office on January 14, 2014.
Is SPIL a right choice for FOXCONN to acquire in the packaging industry?Ta-Wei (David) Huang
This is the final project when I was a junior member in BizPro. In this project I conducted strategic researches about the semi-conductor packaging industry, and then built valuation models using comparable analysis and discounted cashflow valuation.
Acquire, grow and retain customers with IBM Big Data & Analytics - Client Exa...IBM Analytics
Are you effectively converting your audience insights into added value for your consumers? 80% of CEOs believe they deliver a superior customer experience, but only 8% of their customers agree. With IBM Big Data & Analytics solutions you can acquire, grow, and retain customers by improving customer interaction, building long term relationships and realizing value from customer sentiment.
Acquire, grow and retain customers with IBM Big Data & Analytics - Client Exa...David Pittman
Are you effectively converting your audience insights into added value for your consumers? 80% of CEOs believe they deliver a superior customer experience, but only 8% of their customers agree. With IBM Big Data & Analytics solutions you can acquire, grow, and retain customers by improving customer interaction, building long term relationships and realizing value from customer sentiment.
The business case for long-term incentive 23Jan2018James Sillery
This webinar provides four case studies on how business needs have driven long-term incentive plan design and how the resulting programs impacted business performance
Closing Complexity and Integration GapsDean Sorensen
This document discusses how integrating financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and treasury processes can increase profits by 5% of sales by reducing complexity gaps. It identifies four key capabilities needed for fully integrated business planning and performance management: 1) integrated scenarios to evaluate financial and operational impacts, 2) cross-functional governance through process ownership, 3) connecting outcomes and tradeoffs, and 4) concurrent instead of sequential processes. Legacy software tools create complexity gaps by lacking these capabilities, but newer technologies can achieve full integration through a single planning process across functions.
Finance is the lifeblood and lifeline of any business entity either commercial or non-commercial. The
Survival, Stability and Sustainability of a firm is highly associated with its financial wellness. It can be observed through its ability to pay(re) short-term as well as long term liabilities, meeting the regular financial obligations, to increase the value of firm and ability to generate profit. Financial analysis, evaluation, and assessment help in determines the financial position and financial strength of a firm. Among the plenty of methods and tolls available for financial performance, ratio analysis is more useful and meaningful. These ratios make it possible to analyze the evolution of the financial situation of a firm (trend analysis), cross-sectional analysis and comparative analysis.
The document discusses insightful controllership, which aims to provide strategic insight beyond basic financial functions. It argues controllership should provide understanding to support strategic decision making, not just compliance. This requires understanding business operations and gaining strategic insights from financial data. An outsourced controllership model is proposed to focus on decision support and compliance over number crunching, freeing up 20-30% of time for strategic activities. Dedicated teams would provide timely, actionable insights to executives to facilitate strategic decisions.
Achieving Better Outcomes with Data Driven Decision-MakingDelaney Turner
What are the aspects of Smarter Government? Learn how Business Analytics solutions from IBM help government agencies improve outcomes and optimize results.
Tricks of the Transformation Trade: Disruptive Disintermediation, Agility Age...UMT
A vast majority of U.S multinational firms – 93% in fact, according to a recent survey – are at some stage
of undergoing or preparing for business transformation initiatives. This is being driven by an unprecedented
confluence of changes in customer behavior, disruptive technology and domestic competition, among other
key triggers. It’s constantly “transform or wither” in today’s volatile global business, and
agility is the executive imperative of the day, albeit an elusive one. An organization’s long term success or failure
depends on its capacity to consistently identify opportunities and risks and renew itself faster than rivals do.
Business leaders need to be more efficient and effective at updating and implementing strategies than ever
before. If wielded correctly, an important weapon in their agility war chest is a new style of enterprise program
management office (PMO) that is more comprehensive than in the past.
Owens Corning presented at various investor events in Q1 2017 to discuss their focus on shareholder value. The presentation included information on their three business segments (insulation, roofing, composites), financial results for 2016, and their investment thesis of having market leading businesses, improved portfolio/earnings/cash flow, and attractive macroeconomic drivers. It also included details on strategies around capital allocation, portfolio improvement enhancing margins, and financial profiles of the business segments.
Building a Holistic Capital Management FrameworkCognizant
For banks, capital management strategy is a complex process that must take into account a vast range of regulatory and financial factors. Adopting the holistic approach detailed here will enable banks to provide sustainable value to their clients.
This document lists the Fruit of the Spirit which are qualities of a Spirit-filled life including love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It concludes that life is a continuous journey filled with hope.
Global Keyless Vehicle Access Control Systems IndustryReportLinker.com
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Keyless Vehicle Access Control Systems in Thousand Units by the following product segments: Remote Keyless Entry Systems, and Passive Keyless Entry Systems. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for North America, Europe, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2009 through 2017. Also, a six-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. The report profiles 74 companies including many key and niche players such as Aisin Seiki, Alps Automotive, Inc., Alps Automotive, Inc., Atmel
Bombardier Transportation produces several types of rolling stock including the Electrostar EMU commuter trains for the UK, Flexity Swift trams for Karlsruhe Germany, LRT trains for the Kelana Jaya line in Kuala Lumpur, Innovia 300 monorails for Sao Paulo, Movia metro trains for the Shanghai Metro Line 12 and New Delhi Metro, Regina EMUs for Sweden, Flexity trams for Toronto, Zefiro 380 high speed trains for China, Movia 346 trains for the Bucharest Metro, South Africa's high speed Gautrain, and Phoenix Airport APM 200 trains. The document appears to be advertising Bombardier's rolling
Most organizations have moved toward or plan to move toward centralized and standardized business intelligence technologies. While over 40% rate the success of their BI implementations positively, many are still in the early lifecycle stages. The top benefit cited is using real-time data to make better decisions. However, the greatest challenges are the cost of relevant software and licenses as well as a lack of end-user training.
Business Performance Solutions Clash Of The Titans The Market Remains Vibrant...Cezar Cursaru
This document provides an executive summary of a Forrester Research report on the business performance solutions (BPS) software market. It finds that the BPS market has seen significant growth and vendor consolidation in recent years. Forrester expects BPS software revenues to grow 12.7% through 2012 to $3.2 billion, despite temporary slowing due to the recession. The market is dominated by six large vendors, but also includes smaller BI, ERP, and pure-play BPS vendors. The report provides an overview of the BPS software category and functional elements.
401(k) Advisors service model starts with a Fiduciary Fitness program, Including a Fiduciary Investment and plan review and providor benchmarking analysis. Our RFP and provider search process is second to none where we gather over 300 data points on each provider and provide a detailed breakdown of Fees, Fund performance, and service. Our propriatery investment scorecard system takes in to account, Investment style, risk, peer group ranking, and qualitative analysis to help plan sponsors provide the necessary investment due dilligence to satisfy their fiduciary compliance obligations.
This document discusses various types of financial statement analytics used in accounting. Descriptive analytics include ratio analysis to evaluate relationships between financial items and assess a company's performance. Vertical analysis shows financial statement items as a percentage of a base figure. Horizontal analysis compares historical financial data year-over-year. Diagnostic analytics use benchmarks to provide context for a company's performance relative to competitors. Predictive analytics aim to forecast future performance. XBRL facilitates computer-readable financial reporting and supports timely financial analysis.
1) The document outlines best practices and potential pitfalls for using business intelligence (BI) dashboards based on the presenter's experience implementing BI initiatives.
2) It discusses how to effectively design dashboards to communicate key metrics to stakeholders, avoid common implementation pitfalls, and reviews an example dashboard from a top US wireless operator.
3) The presentation emphasizes the importance of data quality, integration standards, and aligning dashboard metrics with organizational strategy for successful long-term dashboard use.
Ben Chamberlain, UMT360: PPM + Financial Intelligence = Greater ROIUMT
Ben Chamberlain, UMT360 gave this presentation at Microsoft and UMT event Project Portfolio Management Exchange at Microsoft San Francisco office on January 14, 2014.
Is SPIL a right choice for FOXCONN to acquire in the packaging industry?Ta-Wei (David) Huang
This is the final project when I was a junior member in BizPro. In this project I conducted strategic researches about the semi-conductor packaging industry, and then built valuation models using comparable analysis and discounted cashflow valuation.
Acquire, grow and retain customers with IBM Big Data & Analytics - Client Exa...IBM Analytics
Are you effectively converting your audience insights into added value for your consumers? 80% of CEOs believe they deliver a superior customer experience, but only 8% of their customers agree. With IBM Big Data & Analytics solutions you can acquire, grow, and retain customers by improving customer interaction, building long term relationships and realizing value from customer sentiment.
Acquire, grow and retain customers with IBM Big Data & Analytics - Client Exa...David Pittman
Are you effectively converting your audience insights into added value for your consumers? 80% of CEOs believe they deliver a superior customer experience, but only 8% of their customers agree. With IBM Big Data & Analytics solutions you can acquire, grow, and retain customers by improving customer interaction, building long term relationships and realizing value from customer sentiment.
The business case for long-term incentive 23Jan2018James Sillery
This webinar provides four case studies on how business needs have driven long-term incentive plan design and how the resulting programs impacted business performance
Closing Complexity and Integration GapsDean Sorensen
This document discusses how integrating financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and treasury processes can increase profits by 5% of sales by reducing complexity gaps. It identifies four key capabilities needed for fully integrated business planning and performance management: 1) integrated scenarios to evaluate financial and operational impacts, 2) cross-functional governance through process ownership, 3) connecting outcomes and tradeoffs, and 4) concurrent instead of sequential processes. Legacy software tools create complexity gaps by lacking these capabilities, but newer technologies can achieve full integration through a single planning process across functions.
Finance is the lifeblood and lifeline of any business entity either commercial or non-commercial. The
Survival, Stability and Sustainability of a firm is highly associated with its financial wellness. It can be observed through its ability to pay(re) short-term as well as long term liabilities, meeting the regular financial obligations, to increase the value of firm and ability to generate profit. Financial analysis, evaluation, and assessment help in determines the financial position and financial strength of a firm. Among the plenty of methods and tolls available for financial performance, ratio analysis is more useful and meaningful. These ratios make it possible to analyze the evolution of the financial situation of a firm (trend analysis), cross-sectional analysis and comparative analysis.
The document discusses insightful controllership, which aims to provide strategic insight beyond basic financial functions. It argues controllership should provide understanding to support strategic decision making, not just compliance. This requires understanding business operations and gaining strategic insights from financial data. An outsourced controllership model is proposed to focus on decision support and compliance over number crunching, freeing up 20-30% of time for strategic activities. Dedicated teams would provide timely, actionable insights to executives to facilitate strategic decisions.
Achieving Better Outcomes with Data Driven Decision-MakingDelaney Turner
What are the aspects of Smarter Government? Learn how Business Analytics solutions from IBM help government agencies improve outcomes and optimize results.
Tricks of the Transformation Trade: Disruptive Disintermediation, Agility Age...UMT
A vast majority of U.S multinational firms – 93% in fact, according to a recent survey – are at some stage
of undergoing or preparing for business transformation initiatives. This is being driven by an unprecedented
confluence of changes in customer behavior, disruptive technology and domestic competition, among other
key triggers. It’s constantly “transform or wither” in today’s volatile global business, and
agility is the executive imperative of the day, albeit an elusive one. An organization’s long term success or failure
depends on its capacity to consistently identify opportunities and risks and renew itself faster than rivals do.
Business leaders need to be more efficient and effective at updating and implementing strategies than ever
before. If wielded correctly, an important weapon in their agility war chest is a new style of enterprise program
management office (PMO) that is more comprehensive than in the past.
Owens Corning presented at various investor events in Q1 2017 to discuss their focus on shareholder value. The presentation included information on their three business segments (insulation, roofing, composites), financial results for 2016, and their investment thesis of having market leading businesses, improved portfolio/earnings/cash flow, and attractive macroeconomic drivers. It also included details on strategies around capital allocation, portfolio improvement enhancing margins, and financial profiles of the business segments.
Building a Holistic Capital Management FrameworkCognizant
For banks, capital management strategy is a complex process that must take into account a vast range of regulatory and financial factors. Adopting the holistic approach detailed here will enable banks to provide sustainable value to their clients.
This document lists the Fruit of the Spirit which are qualities of a Spirit-filled life including love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It concludes that life is a continuous journey filled with hope.
Global Keyless Vehicle Access Control Systems IndustryReportLinker.com
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Keyless Vehicle Access Control Systems in Thousand Units by the following product segments: Remote Keyless Entry Systems, and Passive Keyless Entry Systems. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for North America, Europe, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2009 through 2017. Also, a six-year historic analysis is provided for these markets. The report profiles 74 companies including many key and niche players such as Aisin Seiki, Alps Automotive, Inc., Alps Automotive, Inc., Atmel
Bombardier Transportation produces several types of rolling stock including the Electrostar EMU commuter trains for the UK, Flexity Swift trams for Karlsruhe Germany, LRT trains for the Kelana Jaya line in Kuala Lumpur, Innovia 300 monorails for Sao Paulo, Movia metro trains for the Shanghai Metro Line 12 and New Delhi Metro, Regina EMUs for Sweden, Flexity trams for Toronto, Zefiro 380 high speed trains for China, Movia 346 trains for the Bucharest Metro, South Africa's high speed Gautrain, and Phoenix Airport APM 200 trains. The document appears to be advertising Bombardier's rolling
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Este documento describe un estudio realizado por el restaurant La Napolitana en Macas, Ecuador. El restaurante había experimentado una disminución en las ventas debido a la competencia desleal y los nuevos precios más bajos de otros restaurantes. Para solucionar este problema, el estudio analizó los platos preferidos de los clientes y los precios de la competencia para crear un nuevo menú y estrategia de precios que permita recuperar el mercado.
O documento discute os efeitos negativos do tabagismo para a saúde, incluindo mais de 4.000 substâncias tóxicas em cada cigarro, como nicotina e monóxido de carbono, e as consequências como doenças e redução da esperança de vida em até 10 anos. O tabagismo causa cerca de 1,2 milhões de mortes anuais na Europa. Deixar de fumar traz benefícios à saúde após poucas horas ou anos, como melhoria da circulação, redução de riscos de câncer e
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Este documento discute a violência contra as mulheres no contexto de relacionamentos de namoro. Apresenta as causas mais comuns da violência neste contexto, como perda de controle emocional e ciúmes, e as razões pelas quais as vítimas muitas vezes não rompem o relacionamento, como medo e esperança de mudança. Enfatiza que o amor não justifica a violência e que a violência doméstica pode ser psicológica também. Fornece estatísticas sobre a violência doméstica em Portugal.
The document discusses four types of industrial pollution: air, water, soil, and noise. It defines industrial pollution as the introduction of contaminants into the environment from industrial processes that harm ecosystems. It then provides details on the causes and effects of each type of pollution, as well as the role industries can play in managing pollution, such as treating effluents before release and using noise-proof equipment.
The document discusses financial analysis tasks including developing income and expense profiles, analyzing financial statements, and performing financial diagnosis. It also mentions that reports must be submitted and should be read, and that notes should be taken.
Forrester Study about Total Economic Impact of BI AppsMiguel Garcia
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- The projects increased online closure rates by 1% and average deal sizes. A follow-up campaign lifted conversion rates by 1% compared to a control group. These produced over $54 million and $41 million in additional revenue respectively over 3 years.
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Webinar featuring Forrester TEI study: Driving 496% ROI with Tasktop VizTasktop
Business and IT leaders are under constant pressure to deliver outstanding customer experiences, fueled by technology and innovation, at the speed of the market and at a competitive cost.
To better understand how Tasktop Viz™ can connect enterprise transformation initiatives with financial benefits, Tasktop commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential ROI enterprises may benefit from by deploying the Tasktop Viz value stream management solution. What the study found was significant, with Tasktop Viz users experiencing up to 496% ROI over three years.
In this on-demand webinar, Tasktop CPO, Nicole Bryan, and guest speaker, Forrester Senior Consultant, Sam Conway, discuss the findings of the TEI study and what implementing Tasktop Viz could mean for your business.
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Hear how Kelly Battles, CFO of Host Analytics, works with her finance team to track key financial and operating metrics data to drive performance and keep the company on track to deliver growth in 2011. In addition, Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine will present key software industry benchmarks from OPEXEngine’s comprehensive financial and operating benchmarking report, developed in partnership with the SIIA. Join us for this informative webinar to learn more about how the benefits of metrics-driven, fact based decision making can help you drive better performance and efficiency within your own organization.
Presenters:
Lauren Kelley, CEO & Founder, OPEXEngine
Kelly Battles, CFO, Host Analytics
About the presenters:
Lauren Kelley is CEO and founder of OPEXEngine, the leading publisher of software financial and operating benchmarks. Ms. Kelley brings 25 years of successful experience in tech company management to OPEXEngine, as well as 6 years as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce’s Office of Computers early in her career, after entering Federal service through the prestigious Presidential Management Intern program. Prior to building OPEXEngine, she worked 2 years as an executive-in-residence at Grand Banks Capital, a venture fund focused on East Coast technology companies, evaluating potential investments. She has worked and lived extensively in Europe. She was previously Senior VP of WW Sales at ATG, including establishing field operations throughout Europe and Asia/Pacific, and was a General Manager for approximately 20 countries at Borland out of Paris in the early ’90s. Ms. Kelley also helped build Compaq’s Central and East European operations, based in Munich. Ms. Kelley is currently based in London, where she lives with her husband and two children.
Kelly Bodnar Battles is the CFO of Host Analytics, inc., the only provider of a CPM (Corporate Performance Management) suite of products delivered via software as a service.
Prior to Host Analytics, Kelly was VP, Finance at IronPort Systems where she was the first finance hire and was responsible for building and leading the finance, accounting, administrative and various operational functions during her six years there. During her tenure at IronPort, the company grew from $2M to $250M in annual bookings and was sold to Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO).
Before IronPort, Kelly was a Director in HP’s Strategy and Corporate Development group, a Strategy Consultant with McKinsey and Company, and a Corporate Finance Associate at J.P. Morgan. Kelly graduated with a B.S.E. from Princeton and M.B.A. from Harvard, both with honors. Kelly lives in the Bay Area with her husband, and their 2 children, labrador retriever and rescue cat.
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When you’re in charge of sales for a large enterprise, chances are that your sales teams are dispersed.
They’re managing a diverse portfolio of products and services. And they’re trying their hardest to stay ahead of an increasing field of competition.
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Get insights into the potential cost savings and benefits of SAP Cloud for Sales, today’s modern sales application.
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THE TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT™ OF BECKON
1. A Forrester Total Economic
Impact™ Study
Commissioned By
Beckon
Project Director:
Liz Witherspoon
April 2016
The Total Economic
Impact™ Of Beckon
Cost Savings And Business Benefits
Enabled By Beckon
3. 3
Executive Summary
Beckon commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a
Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the
potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize
by deploying Beckon, a marketing intelligence platform. The
purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to
evaluate the potential financial impact of Beckon on their
organizations to optimize their marketing budgets, reallocate
their investments more frequently to maximize financial
impact, and gain a single source of truth for marketing
performance data through easy-to-use dashboards,
scorecards, and analytics tools.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated
with a Beckon implementation, Forrester interviewed and
surveyed 11 customers with multiple years of experience
using Beckon. Beckon is a SaaS-based platform that brings
together marketing spend and performance data in one place
from all channels for analysis. It’s an integrated data hub that
enables omnichannel marketing insight, real-time decision
support, and analytics and reporting for marketing leaders.
Prior to Beckon, customers had no single system of record for
marketing performance data that was continuously updated for real-time analysis and optimization. Typically, organizations
analyzed marketing performance in hindsight, for example, after a campaign had been completed, which allowed no room for
optimization. Furthermore, the process of collecting marketing performance data across siloes in the organization was a
painful, lengthy process. It left no time to make proactive changes in investment because the collection, normalization, and
tagging process was difficult — if not impossible — to do in time to make adjustments that had an impact on the
organization’s return on marketing spend. Beckon automates the reporting process, provides real-time dashboards of
marketing performance, and provides insights that can lead to optimization improvements. In this way, marketing leadership
can get data insights that help them optimize discretionary marketing spend and, throughout the month, reallocate marketing
funds to drive marketing investment performance. Said one managing director of digital marketing of a bank: “Beckon is a
foundational platform that enables my department to use data to optimize and manage marketing spend. I don’t think you’d
be taken seriously in a digital marketing enterprise without a tool like this. Even those who don’t understand the
fundamentals intrinsically understand that in digital marketing, you should be able to measure every breath you take.”
BECKON ENABLES MARKETING BUDGET OPTIMIZATION WHILE REDUCING COSTS
Our interviews and surveys with 11 existing customers and subsequent financial analysis found that a composite
organization based on these interviewed organizations experienced the risk-adjusted ROI, and benefits, shown in Figure 1.
1
The composite organization analysis points to benefits of $8,503,341 versus a total cost of ownership of $1,386,420, adding
up to a net present value (NPV) of $7,116,921. These estimates are based on a composite of the interviewed organizations
and are intended to represent an organization with a marketing budget of $100 million annually. Organizations with smaller
marketing budgets or fewer data streams would have a lower total cost of ownership for Beckon.
With Beckon, marketing budget optimization improvements averaged 12.7% and were reported to be as high as 20%,
resulting in over $9 million in improved return on marketing investment (ROMI). The composite organization experienced
additional savings in the cost to create reports and for marketing analytics headcount.
Beckon drives marketing optimization decisions
that maximize the effectiveness of marketing
spend, improving return on marketing spend by
up to 12.7% on average.
The customers surveyed and interviewed for this
study reported:
Benefits of over $8.5 million over three
years.
On average, 12.7% marketing budget
optimization improvement as a result of
Beckon, and as high as 20% reported.
The ability to optimize or reallocate
marketing budgets more frequently based
on performance results, typically moving
from quarterly to monthly.
A $1 million reduction in reporting costs.
4. 4
FIGURE 1
Financial Summary Showing Three-Year Risk-Adjusted Results
ROI:
513%
Benefits over
three years:
> $8.5 million
Payback:
7 months
Return on
marketing
spend:
12.7%
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
5. 5
› Benefits. The composite organization experienced the following risk-adjusted benefits that represent those experienced by
the interviewed and surveyed companies:
• Return on marketing spend increased by an average of 12.7%, resulting in $9 million of improvements. The
average return on marketing spend improved by 12.7% as a result of using Beckon. Marketing leaders could review
performance data more frequently, gather insights, and make investment changes to optimize the budget. Before
Beckon, they would have not been able to collect the data insights quickly enough to reallocate across their
performance categories (such as channels, regions, and agencies) to maximize their investments.
• Reduced costs to create marketing reports by over $364,000 per year. Without a reporting, dashboard, and
analytics tool, the marketing team spent, on average, almost 7 hours a week creating reports. This involved a team
member or several members pulling data from different systems and sources, cleaning the data up and preparing it
to be presentation-ready. The process of report creation was automated by Beckon, reducing the time spent by
marketers to almost zero.
• Reduction in marketing data analytics headcount, resulting in savings of around $54,000 per year.
Organizations using Beckon reported a .75 reduction in full-time equivalents (FTEs) because they had automated
the process of collecting data from different internal siloes, normalizing it, and creating reports for analysis. Some
organizations had up to 30 marketing analytics team members creating reports and dashboards and producing
insights with no consistent tool or process. Others had very few to no internal resources dedicated to reporting and
analytics and spent hours preparing presentations for management.
› Costs. The composite organization experienced the following risk-adjusted costs:
• Data source loading and ongoing customer support costs of $400,000 per year. These annually recurring fees
are $10,000 per data source and are paid to Beckon. The composite organization loaded 40 data sources into the
system. The fee includes:
o Automation of data source ingestion.
o Automation of data cleaning and normalization.
o Continuous monitoring and maintenance of all data feeds.
o Unlimited access to robust data visualization and reporting tools.
o Access to Beckon's customer success team for marketing data strategy guidance and support and
ongoing education.
• Internal labor cost to support Beckon of $150,000 per year. This annual, recurring internal labor fee is a cost
incurred by the composite organization for assigning a resource (or part of a team) to the implementation and
ongoing management of the tool. This resource frequently plays the role of deriving insights from the tool to inform
investment decisions.
Disclosures
The reader should be aware of the following:
› The study is commissioned by Beckon and delivered by Forrester Consulting. It is not meant to be used as a competitive
analysis.
› Forrester makes no assumptions as to the potential ROI that other organizations will receive. Forrester strongly advises
that readers use their own estimates within the framework provided in the report to determine the appropriateness of an
investment in Beckon.
6. 6
› Beckon reviewed and provided feedback to Forrester, but Forrester maintains editorial control over the study and its
findings and does not accept changes to the study that contradict Forrester's findings or obscure the meaning of the study.
› Beckon provided the customer names for the interviews but did not participate in the interviews.
7. 7
TEI Framework And Methodology
INTRODUCTION
From the information provided in the interviews, Forrester has constructed a Total Economic Impact (TEI) framework for
those organizations considering implementing Beckon. The objective of the framework is to identify the cost, benefit,
flexibility, and risk factors that affect the investment decision, to help organizations understand how to take advantage of
specific benefits, reduce costs, and improve the overall business goals of winning, serving, and retaining customers.
APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
Forrester took a multistep approach to evaluate the impact that Beckon can have on an organization (see Figure 2).
Specifically, we:
› Interviewed Beckon marketing, sales, and consulting personnel, along with Forrester analysts, to gather data relative to
Beckon and the marketplace for Beckon.
› Interviewed and surveyed 11 organizations currently using Beckon to obtain data with respect to costs, benefits, and risks.
› Designed a composite organization based on characteristics of the interviewed organizations.
› Constructed a financial model representative of the interviews using the TEI methodology. The financial model is
populated with the cost and benefit data obtained from the interviews as applied to the composite organization.
› Risk-adjusted the financial model based on issues and concerns the interviewed organizations highlighted in interviews.
Risk adjustment is a key part of the TEI methodology. While interviewed organizations provided cost and benefit
estimates, some categories included a broad range of responses or had a number of outside forces that might have
affected the results. For that reason, some cost and benefit totals have been risk-adjusted and are detailed in each
relevant section.
Forrester employed four fundamental elements of TEI in modeling Beckon’s platform: benefits, costs, flexibility, and risks.
Given the increasing sophistication that enterprises have regarding ROI analyses related to IT investments, Forrester’s TEI
methodology serves to provide a complete picture of the total economic impact of purchase decisions. Please see Appendix
A for additional information on the TEI methodology.
FIGURE 2
TEI Approach
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Perform
due diligence
Conduct
customer
interviews
Design
composite
organization
Construct
financial
model using
TEI framework
Write
case study
8. 8
Analysis
COMPOSITE ORGANIZATION
For this study, Forrester surveyed customers and conducted in-depth interviews with representatives from the following
companies, which are Beckon customers from the United States and the UK (this is a sampling of those interviewed for the
study):
› A British multinational hotels company headquartered in the UK with over $8.5 billion in revenue. It has over 710,000
rooms and 4,800 hotels across nearly 100 countries. It has large amounts of marketing performance data flowing through
Beckon that is optimized on a frequent basis.
› A homebuilding company based in the United States, with over
$2.4 billion in revenue. It is one of the largest and most
recognized homebuilders in the United States and an industry
leader in sustainability, building innovative and highly energy-
and water-efficient new homes. The marketing organization uses
Beckon for marketing optimization and analyzes marketing data
weekly through the platform.
› An American full-service bank with 398 branches in California,
Washington, and Oregon that also has commercial branches in
Dallas, Houston, New York City, and Chicago, as well as two
international offices. It is a subsidiary of a holding company with
$113 billion in assets. The marketing organization submits daily
data for analysis.
› A British telecommunications company that serves the United
Kingdom, providing television and broadband Internet services
and fixed-line telephone services to consumers and businesses
in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest pay-TV broadcaster,
with 11 million customers. The marketing organization uses
Beckon to track and optimize spend.
› An American shoe company with a production output that
primarily consists of sportswear and lifestyle brand footwear. The
company sells other items globally through retailers in over 160
countries and through approximately 75 company-owned retail
stores across the US. With Beckon, the marketing organization
moved from annual “hindsight” reporting to in-flight optimization
of campaigns, all based on the data flowing into Beckon.
› A leading technology provider of modern communication and collaboration solutions for businesses, with over $170 million
in revenue. The company’s technology products help employees, partners, and customers work better together. They flow
marketing performance data weekly into Beckon, analyze it daily, and optimize campaigns in flight.
Based on the interviews, Forrester constructed a TEI framework, a composite company, and an associated ROI analysis that
illustrates the areas financially affected. The composite organization that Forrester synthesized from these results represents
an organization with the following characteristics:
› The composite organization is a traditional, brand-focused business-to-consumer (B2C) organization with over $100 million
in annual marketing budget to spend across channels.
“We had the challenge of
having a substantive amount
of data and marketing activity
but no correlational
relationship between them. We
evaluated the competitors, and
the general data model behind
Beckon is better than any
other. Every single part of our
marketing spend should be
positively impacted by
Beckon.”
~ CMO, open source software company
9. 9
› The organization has five lines of business, dozens of products, and as many verticals into which it sells.
› The organization has 40 data sources for its marketing performance data from which it generates reports, 40% of which
are system-generated and 60% of which are custom, manually generated reports.
› The organization had around 30 marketers throughout the organization creating reports on a weekly basis to share the
results with marketing management.
The organization went through the following steps to select a marketing performance data provider:
› The organization discussed internally with its IT department some of the possibilities for creating analysis-ready reports,
but it didn’t speak the same language around data. The existing BI solutions in place were much broader-scale and not
specific to the marketers’ needs. This led the organization to seek an alternative solution.
› It then researched vendors and providers for selection. It priced out the creation of a custom system and saw that it would
cost $1 million plus maintenance. The team considered broader BI tools, but they were not specific enough to marketing.
Beckon was an emerging company that solved these challenges and caught the eye of the marketing leader.
› The organization evaluated the handful of companies that provided specific marketing performance tools to marketers. It
selected Beckon for its data model, ease of use, and customer support. Once it made its decision to work with Beckon, the
composite had to determine how many channels of data to pull into the system.
The organization went through the following steps to get started with the Beckon platform and create its marketing data
strategy:
› The organization worked closely with the Beckon customer success team through facilitated working sessions to define the
criteria and taxonomy of the data. The taxonomy informed the presentation of the data and how queries would be run. The
process included customer design sessions where they discussed how to set up and organize the data (e.g., by line of
business, products offered, and geography). Based on the agreed upon taxonomy, the Beckon team applied those
decisions to the software, and the system was ready for use within one month.
› Once data was actively flowing into the Beckon system, the marketing organization continued to collaborate with Beckon
on its marketing data strategy. In addition to providing full access to Beckon dashboards, scorecards, and data
visualization tools, Beckon guided marketers from the organization through the creation of its entire measurement and
reporting program. Through trainings, general account support, and ongoing education, the marketing team had access to
data analysis and platform optimization help, as well as best practices for KPIs, metric prioritization, and marketing data
frameworks.
INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
The implementation of Beckon led to a transformation in the collection of marketing performance data and enabled the more
frequent use of it for the good of the organization.
Situation
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budgets and tactics at the beginning of the year. However, this approach was not keeping pace with the fluidity of the digital
marketing tactics and all of the data that was now readily available to them. Since marketing is expected to drive future
growth, maximizing the budget devoted to it is expected to yield strong results. Yet marketing leaders were having difficulty
collecting and using all of the available data in a timely fashion to optimize both their spend and campaign performance and
link marketing activities to business outcomes. Offline and online performance and spend data, brand tracking data, and
business outcome data from sources such as media spend reports, Google Analytics, Omniture, ExactTarget, Facebook,
Twitter, DoubleClick Campaign Manager, internal sales reports, brand tracker reports, and others abounded, but they were
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viewed and managed in siloes by the marketing managers
responsible for those channels. Before Beckon, the process of
collecting marketing performance data across siloes in the
organization was a painful, lengthy process that left no time to
make proactive changes in investment because the collection,
normalization, and tagging process was difficult — if not impossible
— to do on a timely basis.
While individual marketing channel owners were able to view
performance data in their silos, management-level reporting to
bring together the big picture in real time was difficult. There was no
single system of record for that data that could be continuously
updated for real-time analysis and optimization. The organization
relied on outside agency partners to supply critical reports monthly
or quarterly, but this process was expensive and riddled with
potential errors and conflicts of interest. Reports created internally
were often outdated by the time the data could be collected and
analyzed. The organization wanted to optimize its discretionary
marketing spend and, throughout the month, reallocate and
optimize marketing funds as needed. Marketing leadership decided
to find a tool that automates the reporting process, provides real-
time dashboards and scorecards of marketing performance, and
provides insights that can lead to optimization improvements. In this
way, they can proactively provide reports and data insights to drive
marketing investment performance.
The marketing analytics organization provides monthly reports to
four lines of business and ad hoc reports to other areas of the
business. In the past, creating reports spanning data sources or “on
a moment’s notice” would have been difficult, expensive, and time-
consuming. With Beckon, those reports can be run easily once the
data sources are loaded and KPIs established. With Beckon, the
composite organization has the following goals:
› Create a single “source of truth” for marketing performance data
that is updated continuously.
› Enable marketing leaders to manage the effectiveness of their marketing programs across online and offline channels.
› Provide “marketer-ready” insights in a dashboard configuration and with data storytelling features that can be enabled.
› Respond to requests from different business units about the performance of marketing tactics.
Solution
The composite organization selected Beckon for its strong underlying data model, its easy-to-use interface, and the very
supportive implementation team who assists in defining taxonomies, normalizing data, receiving ongoing updates to those
data streams, and advising on KPI selection and best-practice dashboard and scorecard design.
“Our challenge is
management-level reporting
and bringing together the big
picture in a timely way.
Marketing people are not data
people, and marketing is
diffused. The value that
Beckon brings begins with
their ability to help you build
the taxonomy, which makes
the visualization more
manageable. Beckon is a
dashboard and a centralized
repository, and they
understand what matters to
marketers.”
~ Director of marketing analytics, hospitality
industry
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Results
The interview revealed:
› An increase in the frequency of analyzing marketing performance data, enabling an “agile marketing” approach.
Fifty-eight percent of Beckon customers surveyed for this study were able to monitor their performance monthly — as
opposed to quarterly — since their implementation of the technology. These senior-level marketers were able to monitor
campaigns, channels, markets, regions, and agency performance more frequently, which is an important step in adopting
an “agile” approach to marketing. Their campaign and channel managers were able to monitor weekly or even daily to gain
insights that could have an impact on their allocation and investment decisions. Said one CMO from a technology
company: “I see my managers and me reviewing the data at a minimum of every one to two weeks. That weekly cadence
for the leadership team enables us to have proactive communication with the executive team in which we can share pieces
of performance data that is available because of Beckon. Every month, I would like to do a reallocation of funds.”
› On average, a 12.7% improvement in the return on marketing spend, totaling over $9 million in ROMI. With a shift
toward more frequent monitoring of marketing performance data and weekly or monthly shifts in digital investment dollars,
the composite organization saw an increase in its return on marketing spend. Customers reported average optimization
improvements of 10.1% for campaigns, 6.2% for channels, 4.7% for markets, 3.4% for regions, and 2.3% for agencies.
Furthermore, they identified a 3% to 20% improvement in their overall return on marketing spend, averaging about 12.7%.
› A reduction in costs by providing a system of record and “one source of truth” for marketing performance data.
The composite organization reported spending hundreds of hours of time — imagine 30 marketers across the enterprise
spending over 6 hours weekly on report creation — collecting data and creating reports. Marketing managers and
marketing analytics professionals had to spend hours collecting data from various sources and preparing it for analysis by
combining it with other data sources and creating PowerPoints
to tell the data story behind the numbers. This took time and
resources. After Beckon, marketer-ready insights and reports
were automated, and the visual storytelling could be done by
Beckon’s dashboard and scorecard features. In addition to the
report creation time savings, the organization estimated that it
could reduce headcount by a half to a full-time equivalent.
Said one director of marketing analytics from the hospitality
industry: “Our challenge is management-level reporting and
bringing together the big picture in a timely way. We’ve been
doing a lot of things in Excel, but a lot of compromises are
made around granularity, file size, and speed. We have lots of
different data sources and many vendors to consider — 64
programs in total. Pulling that data together is a challenge, and
we can’t keep up with the volume.”
› The removal of the “fox from the henhouse” when it
comes to evaluating agency performance. The composite
organization described a situation common to many
marketers: It relies heavily on its agency partners to provide
reporting and analytics to the organization. This has long been
the case, but it is riddled with complexities. The agency is
often responsible for allocating and executing the tactics that
marketers wish to gather marketing performance data around.
It has a vested interest in showing positive performance.
Frequently, the agency owns the performance data, and the
marketing organization cannot access it readily. So, when
reports were requested throughout the organization —
“We spent $100,000 for every
custom report we had the
agency create. There were
about 200 of these reports
being requested from across
the company. Not only was
this expensive, but having our
agency create the reports on
their own performance was
like letting the fox in the
henhouse.”
~ IT professional serving marketing, consumer
products company
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reported by one large consumer products company to be as many as 200 times per year — the agency was paid to create
reports on its own performance. Or, if the company changed agencies, the data typically remained under agency
ownership rather than with the internal organization. The composite organization cited Beckon as a means of bringing
marketing performance data ownership back within its control. It also gave the organization a means to save on the often
exorbitant fees it paid to have custom reports created. In some cases, it needed a full-time resource assigned to its
account from the agency for report creation but could avoid that cost with Beckon.
› A data center of excellence mindset to the organization. When the organization began using Beckon, it was the first
time that it brought together the people and the disparate data sources that were siloed throughout the organization. The
process of collecting that data, meeting internally with the help of the Beckon customer support team to define taxonomies,
and making decisions on marketing KPIs had never been done before and aligned the team on their marketing strategy.
Beckon brought a “data center of excellence” mindset to the organization through the process of marketing performance
data collection, integration, and normalization. Said one managing director of digital marketing of a bank: “When I started,
there was no digital marketing function and no reporting or analytics to measure and manage digital marketing
performance. We were going to disparate sources of data to capture, format, and create a 10-page PowerPoint. Now, the
data is in Beckon, and we can go in there and run queries where you define the time range, and the possibilities are
infinite. We want to use what is there to inform optimization and future spend. Beckon was generous on the amount of
hours and professional services they provided to set it up.”
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BENEFITS
The composite organization experienced a number of quantified benefits in this case study:
› Marketing budget optimization improvements.
› Reduced cost to create marketing reports.
› Reduced marketing personnel expense devoted to report creation.
Another important benefit mentioned by the composite organization was that the process of readying data streams for
Beckon provided an opportunity for the organization to agree on key performance indicators. The process of creating a
global taxonomy for the data improved the overall data quality and consistency for these customers. It furthered them in the
process of creating a marketing “data center of excellence” mindset in the organization. It also provided them ample tools for
data visualization and storytelling, which are both important capabilities for presenting data insights to company leadership.
Customers also cited the ease of use of Beckon as a key benefit of the product, along with the very responsive and
knowledgeable customer care team behind the tool.
Marketing Budget Optimization Improvements
The composite organization indicated that a key benefit from the Beckon implementation was a 12.7% increase
in return on marketing spend (on average) due to marketing leadership’s ability to optimize marketing
investments on a more frequent basis. Prior to Beckon, the marketing leadership of the composite organization
planned the marketing budget annually, reviewed its performance quarterly, and made less frequent updates to
marketing investments. While campaign and channel managers could review performance data on a more
frequent basis, they were relying on the individual marketing technologies, such as ad servers and agency
partners, to provide the reporting and analytics and then made investment decisions in a silo. As a result, the
composite organization’s marketing leadership did not have the ability to get a comprehensive management view
of the performance of the 40-plus simultaneous marketing data sources to make informed decisions across those
investments.
Following the Beckon implementation, the composite organization improved its return on marketing spend by a
range of 3% to 20%, averaging 12.7%. This is because the marketing leadership was able to increase the
frequency of marketing performance monitoring from quarterly (on average) to monthly (and often even more
frequently). Armed with more accessible and better data across campaigns, channels, regions, and agencies, the
marketing leadership could discuss insights and advise changes in investments. The majority of customers
interviewed for this study increased the frequency of their budget allocations. The organization, which has a $100
million dollar marketing budget, found that the majority of that spend, 68%, was optimizable if the data streams
from disparate marketing technologies and tactics could be brought into one location. Assuming an average
return on marketing investment of 5:1, the organization saw an increase of 12.7% on that return. For this model,
a conservative estimate of 6% improvement on return on marketing spend was used, but individual
improvements were reported to be as high as 20%. As a result, with a budget of $68 million that can be
optimized, the organization recognized over $4 million in improvements every year. In Year 1, the optimization
improvement was calculated after six months, assuming the implementation process for Beckon requires a few
months for an organization to hold design workshops, determine a global taxonomy, and establish a systematic
process for reviewing marketing performance data. Furthermore, Beckon is an enabling technology that provides
the data and tools for marketers to make decisions, but the insights and investment decisions depend on a
person to make effective changes. To account for this, Forrester Research attributes 20% of the marketing return
on spend improvement to Beckon as the enabling technology. The total benefit resulting from marketing budget
optimization improvements over the three years was $10.2 million, or about $255,000 per marketing data stream
loaded into Beckon.
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Interviewed organizations provided a broad range of percentage improvements on marketing spend and varying
average return on marketing spend, since every campaign and tactic can have a different ROMI. To compensate,
this benefit was risk-adjusted and reduced by 10%. The risk-adjusted total benefit resulting from marketing
budget optimization improvements over the three years was $9.18 million, or about $229,500 per marketing data
stream loaded into Beckon. See the section on Risks for more detail.
TABLE 1
Marketing Budget Optimization Improvements
Ref. Metric Calculation Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
A1 Marketing budget $100,000,000 $100,000,000 $100,000,000
A2
Percent of budget than can
be optimized
68%
Source: Forrester
Research
$68,000,000 $68,000,000 $68,000,000
A3
Return on marketing spend
before Beckon
For every $1 spent,
$5 return $340,000,000 $340,000,000 $340,000,000
A4 Optimization improvement
For every $1 spent,
$5.30 return Note:
3%-20% reported
increase in return
on marketing
spend; 12.7%
average; 6% used
as conservative
estimate
$20,400,000 $20,400,000 $20,400,000
A5
Percent improvement
attributed to use of Beckon
technology
20% 20% 20% 20%
At
Marketing budget
optimization improvements
A3*0.06*A5
Year 1 calculated
benefits for 6 mos.
$0 $2,040,000 $4,080,000 $4,080,000
Risk adjustment ↓10%
Atr
Marketing budget
optimization
improvements (risk-
adjusted)
$0 $1,836,000 $3,672,000 $3,672,000
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Reduced Cost To Create Marketing Reports
Beckon customers cited the reduction in time to create marketing reports as one of the key benefits provided by
the platform. Prior to Beckon, marketers from across the organization — as many as 30-plus in the composite
organization — were responsible for creating their own marketing performance reports to provide marketing
leadership. While the technology used for their specific channel or campaign may have provided data and
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reports, they had to bring together year-over-year data for analysis, create PowerPoints painstakingly, or request
the data from agency partners. The process of report creation was complex and frequently riddled with errors.
Furthermore, marketers across the organization had no consistent taxonomy for labeling and tracking
performance across marketing efforts. This meant that even if they could report back on results, those results
were only relevant within the context of the individual marketing execution tool but not available side by side with
other data sources. Marketing professionals across the organization were spending over 6 hours per week
assembling reports prior to Beckon, or they were paying an agency to create custom reports for them. Customers
reported a minimum cost of $120,000 annually and as much as $2 million when they had to rely on those
partners. In the case where they did use agencies for reporting, there was frequent staff turnover on the agency
side, as retaining marketing data analytics professionals was difficult, and the quality and objectivity of the data
were called into question at times. Agencies owning company marketing performance data and reporting on their
own performance was viewed as the “fox in the henhouse” dilemma: They had a financial incentive to represent
themselves in the best possible light. After implementing Beckon and loading marketing data sources, the
process of report creation was automated. Marketers across the company saved hundreds of hours per year.
The total benefit resulting from the reduced cost to create marketing reports over the three years was
$1,214,951, or about $40,498 per marketer who created reports.
Interviewed organizations provided a broad range of hours saved in the creation of reports, and the size of their
marketing teams varied depending on the industry and focus of the organization. Furthermore, salaries for
marketers vary depending on industry and region. To compensate, this benefit was risk-adjusted and reduced by
10%. The risk-adjusted total benefit resulting from the reduced cost to create marketing reports over the three
years was $1,093,456, or about $36,449 per marketer creating reports. See the section on Risks for more detail.
TABLE 2
Reduced Cost To Create Marketing Reports
Ref. Metric Calculation Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
B1
Number of people creating
reports
30 30 30 30
B2
Time spent creating reports
weekly
6.75 hrs. 6.75 6.75 6.75
B3 Weeks per year 52 52 52
B4
Time spent creating reports
after Beckon
Automated
B5 Hourly salary
Based on $80,000
annual fully loaded
salary assumption
$38.46 $38.46 $38.46
Bt
Reduced cost to create
marketing reports
B1*B2*B3*B5 $0 $404,984 $404,984 $404,984
Risk adjustment ↓10%
Btr
Reduced cost to create
marketing reports (risk-
adjusted)
$0 $364,485 $364,485 $364,485
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
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Reduced Marketing Personnel Expense Devoted To Report Creation
The composite organization indicated that a key benefit from the Beckon implementation was a reduction in
marketing personnel expense devoted to report creation. In some cases, the customers interviewed for this
research paid an agency up to $120,000 per year as a dedicated resource for report creation. Other customers
reported that they were able to reduce their marketing headcount by about one person because they now had an
automated way to create reports using Beckon. Several customers had central marketing analytics teams with up
to 30 people on them working to create the dashboards and reports that Beckon creates automatically. Although
a resource may be required to manage Beckon internally, to oversee its implementation and the ongoing
management of data streams (see the Costs section for more detail), the customer was able to offset that cost by
reducing the headcount for personnel dedicated to creating marketing reports. Prior to Beckon, the composite
organization needed a dedicated resource who was either internal or outsourced to an agency, to keep up with
the demand for report creation. For this model, a conservative estimate of a 0.75 personnel cost for marketing
resources was used to quantify this benefit. In a large B2C organization that is marketing-driven, that reduction
would likely be higher. After the Beckon implementation, this cost could be reduced or allocated to a different
internal demand, such as managing the technology implementation. The total benefit resulting from reduced
marketing personnel expenses over the three years was $180,000.
Interviewed organizations provided a range when asked about the number of resources that were reduced as a
result of having analysis-ready marketing performance data available to them. Furthermore, salaries for
marketers vary depending on industry and region. To compensate, this benefit was risk-adjusted and reduced by
10%. The risk-adjusted total benefit resulting from reduced marketing personnel expense devoted to report
creation over the three years was $162,000.
TABLE 3
Reduced Marketing Personnel Expense Devoted To Report Creation
Ref. Metric Calculation Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
C1
Salary of marketing analytics
manager, fully loaded
$80,000 $80,000 $80,000 $80,000
C2 Reduction due to Beckon 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.75
Ct
Reduced marketing personnel
expense devoted to report
creation
C1*C2 $0 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000
Risk adjustment ↓10%
Ctr
Reduced marketing
personnel expense devoted
to report creation (risk-
adjusted)
$0 $54,000 $54,000 $54,000
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
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Total Benefits
Table 4 shows the total of all benefits across the three areas listed above, as well as present values (PVs) discounted at
10%. Over three years, the composite organization expects risk-adjusted total benefits to be a PV of more than $8.5 million,
or $212,500 per marketing data source loaded into the system.
TABLE 4
Total Benefits (Risk-Adjusted)
Ref. Benefit Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Present
Value
Atr
Marketing budget
optimization
improvements
$0 $1,836,000 $3,672,000 $3,672,000 $9,180,000 $7,462,630
Btr
Reduced cost to
create marketing
reports
$0 $364,485 $364,485 $364,485 $1,093,456 $906,421
Ctr
Reduced marketing
personnel expense
devoted to report
creation
$0 $54,000 $54,000 $54,000 $162,000 $134,290
Total benefits (risk-
adjusted)
$0 $2,254,485 $4,090,485 $4,090,485 $10,435,456 $8,503,341
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
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COSTS
The composite organization experienced a number of costs associated with the Beckon solution:
› Data source loading, normalizing, and management fees.
› Internal labor cost to support Beckon.
These represent the mix of internal and external costs experienced by the composite organization for initial planning,
implementation, and ongoing maintenance associated with the solution.
Data Source Loading, Normalizing, And Management Fees
For every marketing data source that the composite organization loaded into Beckon — whether automated or
manual — the organization paid a $10,000 annually recurring data source loading and management fee. The
composite organization loaded 40 data sources into the system. The fee includes:
o Automation of data source ingestion.
o Automation of data cleaning and normalization.
o Continuous monitoring and maintenance of all data feeds.
o Unlimited access to robust data visualization and reporting tools.
o Access to Beckon's customer success team for marketing data strategy guidance and support and
ongoing education.
This price encompasses the initial setup process for bringing data sources into Beckon, including data design
meetings, taxonomy creation, data normalization and cleansing, and loading fees. In addition, Beckon updates
those data sources on a frequent basis as the organization amends or expands on the original data structure and
monitors them on an ongoing basis to ensure a consistent, accurate, and timely flow of data. The fee also
includes all reporting and visualization functionality, as well as access to Beckon’s customer success team of
marketing data experts. The data source loading, normalizing, and management fees are paid annually. The
composite organization incurred data source fees for its 40 marketing data streams, for a total of $1,200,000 in
data source loading, normalizing, and management fees.
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TABLE 5
Data Source Loading, Normalizing, And Management Fees
Ref. Metric Calculation Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
D1
Number of marketing data
sources
40 40 40 40
D2 Price per data source $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000
Dt
Data source loading,
normalizing, and management
fees
D1*D2 $400,000 $400,000 $400,000
Risk adjustment 0%
Dtr
Data source loading,
normalizing, and
management fees (risk-
adjusted)
$0 $400,000 $400,000 $400,000
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Internal Labor Cost To Support Beckon
The composite organization, in order to maximize the value of Beckon, dedicates a resource or part of the team
to managing the Beckon implementation and generating insights from the tool. This cost is estimated at $150,000
annually and is offset by the reduction in costs of personnel devoted to managing reporting (see Benefit 3 in the
benefits section). Over three years, the total costs associated with internal labor to support Beckon are $450,000.
The labor costs to support Beckon may vary by company, geography, and the number of data sources loaded in
the system. To compensate, this cost was risk-adjusted up by 5%. The risk-adjusted cost of annual labor to
support Beckon over the three years was $472,500. See the section on Risks for more detail.
TABLE 6
Internal Labor Cost To Support Beckon
Ref. Metric Calculation Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
E1
Salary of marketing resource to
support Beckon
$150,000 $150,000 $150,000
Et
Internal labor cost to support
Beckon
$150,000 $150,000 $150,000
Risk adjustment ↑5%
Etr
Internal labor cost to support
Beckon (risk-adjusted)
$0 $157,500 $157,500 $157,500
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
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Total Costs
Table 7 shows the total of all costs as well as associated present values, discounted at 10%. Over three years, the
composite organization expects costs to total a net present value of a little more than $1.38 million.
TABLE 7
Total Costs (Risk-Adjusted)
Ref. Cost Category Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Present
Value
Dtr
Data source loading, normalizing,
and management fees
$400,000 $400,000 $400,000 $1,200,000 $994,741
Etr
Internal labor cost to support
Beckon
$157,500 $157,500 $157,500 $472,500 $391,679
Total costs (risk-adjusted) $557,500 $557,500 $557,500 $1,672,500 $1,386,420
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
FLEXIBILITY
Flexibility, as defined by TEI, represents an investment in additional capacity or capability that could be turned into business
benefit for some future additional investment. This provides an organization with the “right” or the ability to engage in future
initiatives but not the obligation to do so. There are multiple scenarios in which a customer might choose to implement
Beckon and later realize additional uses and business opportunities. Flexibility would also be quantified when evaluated as
part of a specific project.
Beckon provides flexible and highly visual dashboard, scorecard, and analytics tools. As organizations using Beckon get
over the initial hurdle of collecting all of the data sources across the company for analysis and agree to the KPIs and
measures that matter for the business, the power of these tools to drive insights increases.
RISKS
Forrester defines two types of risk associated with this analysis: “implementation risk” and “impact risk.” Implementation risk
is the risk that a proposed investment in Beckon may deviate from the original or expected requirements, resulting in higher
costs than anticipated. Impact risk refers to the risk that the business or technology needs of the organization may not be
met by the investment in Beckon, resulting in lower overall total benefits. The greater the uncertainty, the wider the potential
range of outcomes for cost and benefit estimates.
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TABLE 8
Benefit And Cost Risk Adjustments
Benefits Adjustment
Marketing budget optimization improvements 10%
Reduced cost to create marketing reports 10%
Reduced marketing personnel expense devoted to report creation 10%
Costs Adjustment
Internal labor cost to support Beckon 5%
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Quantitatively capturing implementation risk and impact risk by directly adjusting the financial estimates results provides
more meaningful and accurate estimates and a more accurate projection of the ROI. In general, risks affect costs by raising
the original estimates, and they affect benefits by reducing the original estimates. The risk-adjusted numbers should be taken
as “realistic” expectations since they represent the expected values considering risk.
The following impact risks that affect benefits are identified as part of the analysis:
› Interviewed organizations provided a broad range of percentage improvements on marketing spend and varying average
return on marketing spend, since every campaign and tactic can have a different ROMI. To compensate, this benefit was
risk-adjusted and reduced by 10%.
› Interviewed organizations provided a broad range of hours saved in the creation of reports, and the size of their marketing
teams varied depending on the industry and focus of the organization. Furthermore, salaries for marketers vary depending
on industry and region. To compensate, this benefit was risk-adjusted and reduced by 10%.
› Interviewed organizations provided a range when asked about the number of resources that were reduced as a result of
having analysis-ready marketing performance data available to them. Furthermore, salaries for marketers vary depending
on industry and region. To compensate, this benefit was risk-adjusted and reduced by 10%.
The following implementation risk that affects costs is identified as part of this analysis:
› The labor costs to support Beckon may vary by company, geography, and the number of data sources loaded in the
system. To compensate, this cost was risk-adjusted up by 5%.
Other risks that could have an impact on the benefits provided by Beckon that are not included in the financial model include:
› Data ownership. There may be politics around the collection of marketing performance data, including who can access it
and how publicly it may be shared.
› Cultural transformation. The Beckon tool is most valuable within an organization that values the insights provided by
marketing and wants to act on that data. Organizations that will value Beckon value access to analysis-ready data and
want to increase the frequency of reporting and spend optimization.
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› The key internal stakeholder. Because Beckon is a management-level reporting tool, the marketing leader who invests in it
and is the internal champion may leave the organization before the tool has rooted itself deeply enough to survive that
leader’s departure.
› The people. Data insights come from people, not tools. The expertise on gathering insight from data and analysis doesn’t
come with a software package or tool. It must be “rented” or “bought” or built out internally, and the organization must have
a culture that values marketing insights.
Table 8 shows the values used to adjust for risk and uncertainty in the cost and benefit estimates for the composite
organization. Readers are urged to apply their own risk ranges based on their own degree of confidence in the cost and
benefit estimates.
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Financial Summary
The financial results calculated in the Benefits and Costs sections can be used to determine the ROI, NPV, and payback
period for the composite organization’s investment in Beckon.
Table 9 below shows the risk-adjusted ROI, NPV, and payback period values. These values are determined by applying the
risk-adjustment values from Table 8 in the Risks section to the unadjusted results in each relevant cost and benefit section.
FIGURE 3
Cash Flow Chart (Risk-Adjusted)
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
TABLE 9
Cash Flow (Risk-Adjusted)
Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total Present Value
Costs ($557,500) ($557,500) ($557,500) ($1,672,500) ($1,386,420)
Benefits $2,254,485 $4,090,485 $4,090,485 $10,435,456 $8,503,341
Net benefits $1,696,985 $3,532,985 $3,532,985 $8,762,956 $7,116,921
ROI 513%
Payback period ($557,500) ($557,500) ($557,500) ($1,672,500) 7 months
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
($2,000,000)
$0
$2,000,000
$4,000,000
$6,000,000
$8,000,000
$10,000,000
Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Cashflows
Financial Analysis (risk-adjusted)
Total costs Total benefits Cumulative total
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Beckon: Overview
The following information is provided by Beckon. Forrester has not validated any claims and does not endorse Beckon or its
offerings.
ABOUT BECKON
Beckon is a marketing intelligence platform for marketers who want to bring order to data chaos, see what’s working across it
all, make data-informed optimization decisions, and tell the marketing story in terms of business impact. Beckon’s software-
as-a-service platform provides end-to-end management of messy marketing data and delivers rich dashboards and
scorecards for cross-channel marketing intelligence. Built by marketers for marketers, Beckon provides omnichannel
visibility, best-practice analytics, and marketing-impact metrics right out of the box for ultra-fast time-to-marketing-value.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Beckon Dashboards
Beckon has reimagined the generic marketing dashboard as a storytelling canvas for understanding and sharing
omnichannel marketing performance. First, Beckon provides real-time, marketer-ready spend and ROI dashboards that put
diagnostic metrics and leading indicators of marketing’s effectiveness at marketers’ fingertips right out of the box: ROI, cost-
effectiveness comparisons by channel and tactic, buyer’s journey analyses, paid/owned/earned media ratios, campaign
performance versus benchmarks, and more. Then, marketers can fully customize those dashboards or create their own.
Marketers can change layouts; resize elements; drag and drop charts; use rich-text blocks to add commentary and highlight
key points; and embed images, video, Twitter widgets, Google Trends, and more. And because every chart in a Beckon
dashboard answers a business question (displayed right above the chart), it’s easy to see and share how marketing is
moving the needle on business and brand outcomes and what’s working best across it all.
Beckon Scorecards
Beckon marketing scorecards are automated, real-time trackers that map marketing metrics and KPIs directly to brand and
business objectives, as well as to traditional frameworks like the buyer’s journey, to show marketing performance at a
glance. Marketers can play with the beautiful, intuitive drag-and-drop interface to design scorecards that perfectly capture
their marketing achievements. They can create unlimited drafts and scorecard layouts, sharing them with others only when
they’re ready. Beckon scorecards make it easy for marketers to compare planned versus actual; set up templates; toggle
through campaigns, regions, or brands using the same consistent lens; and tell marketing’s overall story of business impact
with clarity and simplicity.
Beckon Answers
Beckon’s natural-language Q&A interface lets marketers get answers to critical questions about marketing performance all
on their own. As we spend more on TV, what happens to the click-through rate on banner ads? Which content resonates
with which segments? Are we tracking to plan? Where should we invest our next marketing dollar? Which agency delivers
the most per $1 we pay them in fees? Ask a question about marketing performance, and get the answer — it’s that simple.
Marketers can explore any facet of their data over any timeframe — in effect, they can “interview their data.” And when it’s
time to build a year-in-review hindsighting deck, marketers can go to Beckon, formulate a natural-language question, and
instantly get several graphs, charts, and tables that answer it. Pop one or more into a report, and they’re off and running.
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Beckon Data
Marketing data is uniquely messy. If it’s not cleaned up before it’s put into data visualization tools like dashboards and
scorecards, then all you have is a pretty picture with bad data. Beckon is an automated, end-to-end data management
solution (no more late nights cutting and pasting in spreadsheets). It unites marketing spend and performance data once and
for all. It establishes a flexible, universal marketing taxonomy (regions, business units, product lines, etc.) that’s applied
consistently across all marketing efforts. It provides a single home for all marketing spend and performance data along with
business and brand KPIs. It integrates data from any marketing channel (online, offline, in-store, affiliate, partner marketing,
and more) and any data source (data warehouse, API, Excel, .csv, reports from execution tools, PowerPoint, PDF, and
more). And it works with all of the best-of-breed execution tools marketers are already using. Beckon data management is
the first step to unlocking the true story of marketing performance.
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Appendix A: Total Economic Impact™ Overview
Total Economic Impact is a methodology developed by Forrester Research that enhances a company’s technology decision-
making processes and assists vendors in communicating the value proposition of their products and services to clients. The
TEI methodology helps companies demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of IT initiatives to both senior
management and other key business stakeholders. TEI assists technology vendors in winning, serving, and retaining
customers.
The TEI methodology consists of four components to evaluate investment value: benefits, costs, flexibility, and risks.
BENEFITS
Benefits represent the value delivered to the user organization — IT and/or business units — by the proposed product or
project. Often, product or project justification exercises focus just on IT cost and cost reduction, leaving little room to analyze
the effect of the technology on the entire organization. The TEI methodology and the resulting financial model place equal
weight on the measure of benefits and the measure of costs, allowing for a full examination of the effect of the technology on
the entire organization. Calculation of benefit estimates involves a clear dialogue with the user organization to understand
the specific value that is created. In addition, Forrester also requires that there be a clear line of accountability established
between the measurement and justification of benefit estimates after the project has been completed. This ensures that
benefit estimates tie back directly to the bottom line.
COSTS
Costs represent the investment necessary to capture the value, or benefits, of the proposed project. IT or the business units
may incur costs in the form of fully burdened labor, subcontractors, or materials. Costs consider all the investments and
expenses necessary to deliver the proposed value. In addition, the cost category within TEI captures any incremental costs
over the existing environment for ongoing costs associated with the solution. All costs must be tied to the benefits that are
created.
FLEXIBILITY
Within the TEI methodology, direct benefits represent one part of the investment value. While direct benefits can typically be
the primary way to justify a project, Forrester believes that organizations should be able to measure the strategic value of an
investment. Flexibility represents the value that can be obtained for some future additional investment building on top of the
initial investment already made. For instance, an investment in an enterprisewide upgrade of an office productivity suite can
potentially increase standardization (to increase efficiency) and reduce licensing costs. However, an embedded collaboration
feature may translate to greater worker productivity if activated. The collaboration can only be used with additional
investment in training at some future point. However, having the ability to capture that benefit has a PV that can be
estimated. The flexibility component of TEI captures that value.
RISKS
Risks measure the uncertainty of benefit and cost estimates contained within the investment. Uncertainty is measured in two
ways: 1) the likelihood that the cost and benefit estimates will meet the original projections and 2) the likelihood that the
estimates will be measured and tracked over time. TEI risk factors are based on a probability density function known as
“triangular distribution” to the values entered. At a minimum, three values are calculated to estimate the risk factor around
each cost and benefit.
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Appendix B: Forrester And The Age Of The Customer
Your technology-empowered customers now know more than you do about your products and services, pricing, and
reputation. Your competitors can copy or undermine the moves you take to compete. The only way to win, serve, and retain
customers is to become customer-obsessed.
A customer-obsessed enterprise focuses its strategy, energy, and budget on processes that enhance knowledge of and
engagement with customers and prioritizes these over maintaining traditional competitive barriers.
CMOs and CIOs must work together to create this companywide transformation.
Forrester has a four-part blueprint for strategy in the age of the customer, including the following imperatives to help
establish new competitive advantages:
Transform the customer experience to gain sustainable competitive advantage.
Accelerate your digital business with new technology strategies that fuel business growth.
Embrace the mobile mind shift by giving customers what they want, when they want it.
Turn (big) data into business insights through innovative analytics.
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Appendix C: Glossary
Discount rate: The interest rate used in cash flow analysis to take into account the time value of money. Companies set
their own discount rate based on their business and investment environment. Forrester assumes a yearly discount rate of
10% for this analysis. Organizations typically use discount rates between 8% and 16% based on their current environment.
Readers are urged to consult their respective organizations to determine the most appropriate discount rate to use in their
own environment.
Net present value (NPV): The present or current value of (discounted) future net cash flows given an interest rate (the
discount rate). A positive project NPV normally indicates that the investment should be made, unless other projects have
higher NPVs.
Present value (PV): The present or current value of (discounted) cost and benefit estimates given at an interest rate (the
discount rate). The PV of costs and benefits feed into the total NPV of cash flows.
Payback period: The breakeven point for an investment. This is the point in time at which net benefits (benefits minus costs)
equal initial investment or cost.
Return on investment (ROI): A measure of a project’s expected return in percentage terms. ROI is calculated by dividing
net benefits (benefits minus costs) by costs.
A NOTE ON CASH FLOW TABLES
The following is a note on the cash flow tables used in this study (see the example table below). The initial investment
column contains costs incurred at “time 0” or at the beginning of Year 1. Those costs are not discounted. All other cash flows
in years 1 through 3 are discounted using the discount rate at the end of the year. PV calculations are calculated for each
total cost and benefit estimate. NPV calculations are not calculated until the summary tables are the sum of the initial
investment and the discounted cash flows in each year.
Sums and present value calculations of the Total Benefits, Total Costs, and Cash Flow tables may not exactly add up, as
some rounding may occur.
TABLE [EXAMPLE]
Example Table
Ref. Metric Calculation Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
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Appendix D: Supplemental Material
Related Forrester Research
“Q&A: The Seven Things You Need To Know About Unified Marketing Impact Analytics,” Forrester Research, Inc.,
December 11, 2015
“Link Insights To Action With A Measurement-Driven Organization,” Forrester Research, Inc., October 28, 2015
“Embrace Unified Marketing Impact Analytics To Deliver Value Across Interactions,” Forrester Research, Inc., October 2,
2015
“Embrace The New Marketing Performance Measurement Standard,” Forrester Research, Inc., October 2, 2015
“Fuel High-Performance Marketing With Modern Measurement Mechanics,” Forrester Research, Inc., August 10, 2015
“Evaluate Your Marketing Performance Measurement Maturity,” March 31, 2015
Appendix E: Endnotes
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Forrester risk-adjusts the summary financial metrics to take into account the potential uncertainty of the cost and benefit
estimates. For more information, see the section on Risks.