Overview

Applicable's Total Cost of Ownership service is a financial modeling approach that allows our customers to assess the direct and indirect costs related to an IT system or service. Understanding the costs relating to an information technology system is a complex undertaking. Deciding on the content, approach and assumptions for a TCO model can be daunting at first.

As a provider of managed services for our customers using both IBM and Microsoft messaging and collaboration technologies, we have developed comprehensive understanding of related costs and how to manage them effectively.

Benefits

The Applicable TCO model allows you to test various options to see the bottom line impact on the costs of delivering your collaboration service whilst improving the service to users at the same time. All options and associated costs are expressed in a ROI format showing the savings expected over a five year period based upon a number of strategies and considerations: 

> Migration to cloud computing for messaging and collaboration. 
> Consolidation and investment of on-premise assets
> Outsourcing IT service management for on-premise assets to Applicable. 
> A hybrid model to ensure best business outcomes.

Considerations for the Applicable TCU service covers all aspects of the current and future state strategies including: 

> Software licenses
> Hardware refresh costs
> IT Support costs (staff, 3rd party support and monitoring tools)
> Networks
> Staff Training
> Cost of external consultancy for transformation projects
> Software patching and upgrade costs and risks
> Migration costs and risks
> Virtualization cost benefits 
> Disaster Recovery costs and risk
> High availability services (99.99%)
> Perimeter services (AV/AS)
> SaaS licensing over traditional perpetual licensing.

Applicable's cost comparison model focuses on both SMB and Enterprise user estates and allows readers to compare and contrast costs models for like for like deployments of IBM Lotus Domino, Quickr, Connections and Sametime against Microsoft's Exchange, SharePoint, Live Meeting and OCS, whether on-premise, in the Microsoft or IBM cloud, or a hybrid model.  

We believe the information is vital to ensure our customers make informed decisions to ensure operational budgets and end user efficiencies are maximized.

Contact our sales teams for more information.

Why Applicable?

Applicable deliver consultancy services on behalf of IBM (IBM Software Services for Lotus - ISSL) and Microsoft (Business Value Planning Services - BVPS) and directly to our customers for solution deployments, consolidation and migration projects by providing factual insight and experience.

We believe that Applicable is uniquely positioned to understand complex messaging environments and the challenges in transitioning to a more cost effective and reliably platform.

Applicable Customer Quote:

Dr Peter Pang
NEC
European Support Manager