Ready To Move To The Cloud?
 Should You Go Cloud Based? |
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| How Do They Bill Customers? |
‘Pay as you go’ or ‘pay per user’ |
Licensing, maintenance fees, ongoing support fees |
| Market Availability /Barriers to Entry |
Scale as you need. Pricing plans to support all types of organizations | Need to cover the costs of implementing. Generally, target larger, enterprise organizations |
| Are You Locked Into a Plan? |
Leave before your next billing data |
Leaving is usually difficult and expensive |
| Who Owns It? | You rent the software |
You own the software |
| Disaster Recovery Experience |
You can switch vendors in an instance |
If something happens, you need to implement a whole new system. This can be a problem if the IT system is crucial to your business. |
| Typical Investment | No up front costs | Many upfront costs |
| Infrastructure | Bandwidth and browser capable devices |
Bandwidth and browser capable devices, data center servers, application servers |
| Implementation | Online implementation | Technical infrastructure, testing, software rollout |
| Application Management |
Administer the software to your company and configure it to your needs | Administer the software to your company, configure it to your needs, implement any customization, upgrade when needed, add relevant patches. |
| How Scalable is it? | Add or remove users whenever you need |
Scale through vendor account management processes |
| How Secure is it? | They manage security themselves. The software is responsible for any breaches | As secure as you make it. You need to maintain your own security. You’re responsible for any breaches |
| What Power Does it Use? |
Browser capable devices (laptops, desktops etc) |
Data centers, infrastructure, browser capable devices (laptops, desktops etc) |
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