Consolidate / rationalize

You have five BI tools. You want two. But you can't cut anything yet

Digital Hive provides the cross-platform usage data that makes consolidation defensible - and the access layer that makes it invisible to users

What actually happens

The consolidation conversation that never closes

The tool count grew over years - one per team, one from an acquisition, one a business unit stood up on its own. Every budget cycle, leadership asks about consolidation

The conversation ends the same way: nobody knows what's being used. Licenses renew. Costs compound

Why this doesn't get fixed

Why the decision never gets made

  • Consolidation requires certainty no one has: which reports are used, how often, by whom
  • That data lives in five separate admin consoles, in five different formats
  • Every platform has a champion. Without usage data, those arguments can't be countered
  • The risk of cutting too fast is real. Without evidence, no one will take it
What changes

How Digital Hive solves it

Four shifts that turn consolidation from a debate into a decision

Cross-platform usage in one view

Which reports are opened, how often, by whom - across every connected platform

Abandoned content surfaces

Duplicates and unused reports identified and flagged. Platform champions see the same numbers everyone else sees

Evidence replaces politics

Consolidation sequenced on usage data. Content with zero views loses its shield

Phased, invisible execution

The access layer remains as platforms are retired. Users find everything in the same place

The impact

What the research confirms

67%+

Of enterprises face active BI sprawl with no cross-platform usage view

Datalogz State of BI Report, 2025

Sprawl isn't an edge case - it's the default state. Most organizations have no cross-platform usage view, which means consolidation decisions default to politics instead of evidence

Months
not years

Usage data making the business case where arguments couldn't for years

Evidence
not politics

A concrete starting point every stakeholder can see - zero-usage content loses its shield

Better
leverage

Procurement renegotiating vendor contracts from a position of knowledge

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