Published Date 9/22/12 8:50 PM
We've continued to research available commercial and open source software pricing (see previous The Cost of Cloud or Not). For a full accounting of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), it is necessary to compare full spectrum of hardware, software, and IT support costs that realistically support a business:
- Portal / Collaboration
- eCommerce
- Customer Relationship Management
- Enterprise Content Management
- Business Intelligence (Reporting)
- Office
- Email
- Testing
- Source Code Management
- Database
- SW IT Support
Bottom line: having one vendor to supply everything a company needs is not only simpler, easier, and higher quality--it also has a huge costs savings.
Business Solution Costs Comparison (100 employees, monthly)
| Commercial On-Premise | Commercial Cloud | Open Source Cloud | Constellation Cloud |
- Traditional commercial hardware and software acquisition, installation, customization, integration, maintenance, and support.
- Capital and labor intensive up-front and on-going.
| - Standard commercial software from multiple vendors provisioned onto separate clouds.
- Lower cost, but IT resources necessary to choose, integrate, manage, and support users across different providers.
| - Supported open source software from multiple vendors provisioned onto separate clouds.
- Lower cost, but IT resources necessary to choose, integrate, manage, and support users across different providers.
| - Complete integrated functionality for business solutions provisioned on a unified cloud.
- Extensively researched for best customer value, customized for common platform / database / security, and rigorously tested.
- Lowest cost through multi-tenant deployment, embedded IT support, open source software, and economies of scale.
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