{"id":11977,"date":"2009-01-29T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-01-29T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:56:44","slug":"companies_cant_afford_to_use_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/companies_cant_afford_to_use_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Companies Can&#8217;t Afford to Use BI to Cut Costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about <a href=\"a recent survey done by Computerworld (and sponsored by Oracle) called \" target=\"_blank\" ?=\"?\" times?=\"times?\" uncertain=\"uncertain\" in=\"in\" advantage=\"advantage\" competitive=\"competitive\" for=\"for\" tools=\"tools\" proven=\"proven\" bi:=\"bi:\">this research<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/the_1_bi_investment_in_2009_wi.html\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a>, but thought it was worth pulling out the charts to show the irony: the #1 driver of BI initiatives is &quot;realizing cost efficiencies&quot;, but the #1 barrier is&#8230; &quot;budget constraints&quot;!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"334\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/CompaniesCantAffordtoUseBItoCutCosts_E4DB\/image_5.jpg?resize=480%2C334&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"390\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/CompaniesCantAffordtoUseBItoCutCosts_E4DB\/image_6.jpg?resize=476%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"476\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows that the #1 use for BI is cutting costs, but the #1 barrier is budget constraints!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,204,1038],"class_list":["post-11977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-survey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_5-1.jpg?fit=480%2C334&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-37b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}