How to Lower your Enterprise Content Management TCO by 90%.
Save an Arm and a Leg with Open Source.
This webcast reviews publicly available pricing information for Documentum, SharePoint, OpenText, Vignette and compares to Alfresco’s open source ECM.
Follow this narrative that explores the quantitative comparative impact of selecting proprietary ECM solutions versus Alfresco.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is driven by a model of:
- High cost,
- High complexity, and
- Customer control through proprietary power
But in the current economic climate, organizations need to do more with less.
And have a solution that focuses on:
- Lower Cost – A low cost, subscription model with minimal upfront investment that can be driven out of operating expense (op ex) as opposed to capital expense (cap ex)
- Greater Simplicity – Rapid deployment to deliver immediate business value
- Greater Customer Choice – Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reusing existing hardware, software and skills. No lock-in to one ECM vendor or one stack, so when a vendor tries to dramatically increase maintenance fees you have a choice to go elsewhere
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) pricing models are often as complex as their products.
With literally thousands of options requiring salespeople to go to a “sales university” to learn how to price a product configuration.
These models are typified by:
- Per user pricing – Often called Client Access Licenses (CALs)
- No difference in pricing for someone who uses the software for 1 hour a year and someone who uses it 24 hours per day
- A single user paying multiple times to use different software just to access or edit different content formats e.g. Word and CAD files
This results in a situation where it is not transparent to a customer what extras are required to deliver a working system, and it is often unclear what rights a customer has regarding software use.
It also has major implications when an audit happens.
This webinar reviews publicly available pricing information, and looks at the cost of a typical basic system.
Find out how it is possible to save between 52% and 96% on the cost of your ECM or SharePoint purchase in year 1.
Tags: cost, documentum, opentext, proprietary, sharepoint, TCO, vignette
