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Calculate your savings from
impact analysis and automated documentation.

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Your environment & usage

Team & Environment

Total dashboards in environment

BI analysts on your team

Fully-loaded cost per hour

Impact Analysis

Database changes requiring impact analysis

Time to check one dashboard manually

Documentation

New dashboards + updates needing documentation

Time to document one dashboard manually

Your complete savings breakdown

$268,500 saved annually

5,370 hours back to your team — the equivalent of 671 business days.

Impact Analysis
4,900 hours
$245,000 in savings
Automated Documentation
470 hours
$23,500 in savings
Productivity Gain
32%
Additional capacity per analyst
ROI
22×
Return on investment

What your team can do with this time

Build 134 new dashboards instead of firefighting.

  • Build new dashboards annually
    Turn saved time into new insights and revenue-generating analytics.
  • Focus on strategic analysis
    Shift from firefighting to proactive business intelligence.
  • Accelerate self-service BI adoption
    Enable business users with confidence in data accuracy.
  • Drive innovation projects
    Dedicate time to advanced analytics, ML models, and automation.

How we calculated new dashboards: total hours saved ÷ 40 hours per dashboard (industry avg for a complete dashboard including data modeling, design, testing, and documentation).

Non-negotiable benefits

Things that aren't in the spreadsheet but matter most.

  • Audit-Ready Documentation
    Complete, automated lineage and impact trails satisfy auditor requirements without manual prep.
  • Standardized Documentation
    Enterprise-wide documentation standard, kept current as a scheduled job.
  • Reduced Risk Exposure
    Eliminate risk of missed impacts that could lead to incorrect executive decisions.
  • Zero Dashboard Downtime
    Prevent broken dashboards from reaching executives and eroding trust in BI.

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Methodology: Impact analysis manual cost = source changes × dashboards × hours/dashboard. Automated cost ≈ 2% of manual. Documentation manual cost = dashboards documented × hours each. Automated cost ≈ 6% of manual. ROI = total savings ÷ assumed Rapid Lens annual cost ($12,000). Adjust your real subscription cost to refine.