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Cost Comparison

The ASP delivery model combined with the ability to build and deploy an application in weeks without diverting your valuable IT resources makes PortBlue the obvious choice when evaluating alternate approaches on the basis of both initial and ongoing costs.

PortBlue vs. Alternative Approaches

In a typical business problem addressed by PortBlue, a large, multinational company has relatively high turnover in its sales organization and also offers complex products. This organization wants to reduce employee "time to competency" and simultaneously minimize the demand on its experienced staff (e.g., engineers and product managers).

Knowledge-intensive, active tools are often the best solution. Without tools, a process is either not repeatable or labor intensive. However, to date, these tools generally have had high costs and long implementation processes. PortBlue applications provide a new way for your organization to capture, deploy and apply the decision-making and business process management of your best people - at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional solutions.

  Option 1: Enterprise Software Option 2: Custom Software Option 3: PortBlue
Upfront Costs
Hardware Costs $50k $50k $0
Software Costs $480k $50k $0
Implementation Costs $100k $1M $30k-$200k
Total Upfront Costs $630k $1.1M $30k-$200k
Duration
Implementation / IT 6-12 months 6-24 months 3-12 weeks
Expert Time 1-3 months 1-3 months As little as 1 week
Ongoing Costs
IT Resources $200k (2 FTE) $200k (2 FTE) $0
Licensing / Maintenance / Hosting $25k/year $20k/year $5k-15k/month
Total Yearly Costs $225k $220k $60-180k
Control Your Costs with PortBlue Solutions
  • Prevent hidden or add-on costs for building and maintaining applications
  • Avoid need for additional server expenditures
  • Eliminate expensive programmer support
  • Minimize opportunity costs of expert's time
  • Reduce development and deployment time from months or years to weeks
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