delivering timely information
Pricing and
Datawatch Monarch BI Server offering has probably reached
the SME marketplace at the right time: executives feel exposed
competitiveness
in an adverse economic climate, and need access to quality
information that is delivered simply and with minimal
development overheads.
Will pricing be an issue?
licences – serving about 40 to 60 users - We
have found that in cases where larger num-
Price will clearly be a determining factor in bers of user licences are needed that the
the decision to install any BI technology. The Datawatch Enterprise BI solutions become
Monarch BI Server solution enters the market appropriate.”
at around £7,000 for a development system With its roots firmly in Monarch, the Monarch
able to support five simultaneous users at any BI Server will be a logical progression for the
one time. upper tier of SMEs amongst the 35,000 organi-
That figure has to be seen in the context of a sations worldwide using the Datawatch solu-
company purchasing single named user cop- tion. On that basis alone, the company’s in-
ies of the Monarch desktop report mining tool vestment has clearly not been wasted.
which is priced at £460 for a ‘professional’
level version that can handle data from PDFs
(as can Monarch BI Server).
Meaningful competitor in BI space?
On the costs quoted, between 16 and 20 Can the BI solution compete on open market
copies of Monarch Pro could be bought for the terms in a heavily populated business intelli-
price of a single Monarch BI Server that comes gence marketplace to secure the support of
with five concurrent user licences which typi- non-Monarch users?
cally can service anywhere between 20 and Monarch BI Server has to be sold into that
30 end users. market on the strength of its ability to absorb
Kris Smith noted that “Monarch BI Server data streams from every conceivable source,
has been optimised for the kind of SME or- without requiring IT resources to pre-format
ganisation where there is a small pool of ex- that data into compatible inputs or write com-
perts responsible for managing and process- plex routines for data extraction. The web-
ing the information into libraries of reports enablement greatly increases its scope and
which a wider audience throughout the organi- flexibility.
sation can apply. The Datawatch offering has probably
“The web-enablement makes this practica- reached the SME marketplace at the right time:
ble. We believe that is why this server-based executives feel exposed in an adverse eco-
approach provides maximum flexibility across nomic climate, and need quality information
the organisation. Monarch BI Server is de- that is delivered simply and with minimal de-
signed to allow up to 10 concurrent user velopment overheads. §
Monarch BI Server can be sold on the strength of its ability to absorb data streams from every conceivable
source, without requiring IT resources to pre-format that data or write complex routines for data extraction.
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