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Development Costs This can come in the form of a flat rate one time fee or in a consumption based hourly rate schedule. These costs go towards the initial developmental phases of your system. This may include staff interviews, site surveys, programming time and specialized hardware or software plugins. Development costs are flexible and often proportional to your monthly licensing fees. Lower development costs usually results in higher licensing fees and visa versa. For companies with sufficient capital to front load development costs, we can tailor a solution that has development billed hourly with very low licensing fees. |
Licensing & Maintenance Costs These are paid on a monthly basis and typically cover two major components. First and foremost, your license to use the software is part of your monthly cost. This is what allows to keep your development costs down and in many cases is the only thing that allows small businesses to afford this type of enterprise class solution. Secondly, there are some fixed monthly costs associated with the sustained, reliable operation. These include but are not limited to the application server it runs on, the database server that houses your information, in some cases a storage server for file storage and the daily backup of everything. |
Resource Consumption Costs These types of costs do not apply to all business systems. Certain types of functionality have per-use costs associated with them. For example, if you want a system that will send out text message to cell phones, it can be implemented but there is a cost for each text message sent, usually a few pennies. We can usually tell you before building a system what if any resource consumption costs there are going to be. Often these costs are tied to some quantifiable element of your system such as the number of users, projects, files or some other metric. |