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Information By answering just a few quick questions, we can provide you with a projected return on investment analysis showing the time in months before hitting 100% ROI with MetaManager.

Information Keep in mind that the analysis only captures the tangible benefits of using the product.  Additional ROI will be gained from the intangible benefits such as productivity and value-addeded time gained through automation of manual tasks. This amount will vary from company to company.

Information In addition, use of MetaManager aids in ROI with your existing investment in IBM Cognos software by enabling Administrators and Developers to focus much more of their time on value-add activities, resulting in broader and more successful deployment.

METAMANAGER ROI CALCULATOR

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1 How many developers, administrators and/or support personnel would you envision using MetaManager? More Information
2 How many admin licenses (FM Modeling, Server Administrator, etc.) do you have? More Information
3 How many consumer / report author licenses do you have? More Information
4 How many distinct environments (development, test, production) do you maintain? More Information
5 What version(s) of IBM Cognos are you running (i.e. IBM Cognos 8.3, IBM Cognos 10.1.1, etc.)? More Information
6 What is your estimated average annual staff cost for the users in question 1 (i.e. $60,000 per year per person)? More Information
7 How many packages do you currently have published in your environment? More Information
8 What is the current average number of reports per package? More Information
9 What is the anticipated number of Framework models you will document per year? More Information
10 How many changes on average per month do you make to Framework Manager object names? More Information
11 What is the estimated percentage of your reports that are impacted by making the name changes in your FM model per #10? More Information
12 What is the anticipated number of times you will document your content store per year? More Information
13 Based on the size of your content store, how long would it take to prepare a complete documentation (hours)? More Information
14 How many reports per week do you need to restore / revert back to a previous version? More Information
15 How many questions per month do you need to answer on security within your Content Store (i.e. who can see what, etc.)? More Information
16 How many times per year will you need to search within your content store for objects containing specific items (i.e. prompts, data items, html components, etc.)? More Information
17 What percentage of your reports require the changes in question 16? More Information
18 How many people will be performing the searches in question 16? More Information
19 How many times per week do you promote objects/reports from one environment to another? More Information
20 How many times per month do you have a need to replace something (text item, function, image, data item, etc.) within one or more reports? More Information
21 What percentage of your reports require the changes in #20? More Information
22 What percentage of your reports would you like to add screen tips/hover over text into column headers? More Information
23 How many pagelets/portal pages do you create each month? More Information
24 How many people on average are recipients or desired recipients of these portal pages? More Information
25 What percentage of existing reports would you like to standardize the look and feel of (i.e. create new or replace existing headers and footers within)? More Information
26 How many times per year do you foresee making the enhancements in #25? More Information