After spending the past 18 years in the CRM sector
implementing and advising on CRM systems, one of the things I have learnt is
that businesses do not upgrade with every version of a product that is
released.
Most business owners want to get “best value” from any
investment on a business system and they are unlikely to want to upgrade every
year, and have to revisit customisation and bespoke reports.
With the launch of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 it is
anticipated that a number of organisations running CRM 2011 or even CRM 4.0
will now want to upgrade.
If your business has decided to go in the direction of cloud
and or managed services (SaaS), but still wants control over a given
environment then MyCRM now has an answer that suits all business types.
In the last 4 years there has been a huge improvement is
security and technology. The cost of running servers in a data centre
has been dropping and has become financially more appealing than running servers and in house systems.
MyCRM from the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 will be
offering tailor made dedicated platforms for the enterprise.
We have for some time being offering bespoke platforms, but
now we have a range of predesigned solutions from 300 CRM users +.
You may well ask ‘why I would go dedicated when I can use a
shared service at a cost of per user per month’. Well it is a good question to ask but below
is a comparison in monthly costs, as once a certain level is reached and this
is about 300 users the benefits of using a shared instance become financially
less rewarding.
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Shared
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Cost per month
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Dedicated
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Cost per month
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Per user £42.50 Avg. x 300
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£12,750.00
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Platform own server and DB with double the storage
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£4,900.00
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Estimated Cost of Extra storage £8 per Gb.
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£1,600.00
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Licences
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£7,500.00
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Sub Total
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£14,350.00
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Sub Total
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£12,400.00
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VAT
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£2870.00
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VAT
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£2480.00
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Total
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£17,220.00
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Total
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£14,880.00
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By opting for a dedicated environment you will see a monthly
saving of £2,340.00 in VAT at 20%, and on an annual basis this represents an
estimated saving of £28,080. In the
first year of transfer to dedicated, setup costs will be incurred so the real
estimated saving would be £23,080 in the first year and £28,080 in the second
and subsequent years, based on 300 CRM users.
Obviously based on the examples below the gap in cost grows
as you increase the user base of CRM. We have seen some customers move to a dedicated
offering at 240 users to gain the additional benefits of having their own CRM
infrastructure managed.
Below are included some of the additional benefits that
come with a dedicated environment
Own Domain controllers
Access to own Server Infrastructure
Lager volume of data space for production and
backup
Option to manage and apply updates when it suite
your business.
Dedicated platform backup and recovery
Dedicated infrastructure means better security
Increased flexibility and cost savings when using
virtual
Increased resource management of hardware
Increase time saving as dedicated is fully proactively
monitored
Ease of scalability of infrastructure
Increased speed and performance
Easy access to data on the go
Access to the latest technology in a data centre
and latest SAN devices.
To be honest the list could go on and on and running
resource hungry servers and application in your office is now longer a must, as
you can achieve better performance and security by having a dedicated managed
services that still gives you full access to you own cloud infrastructure.
The MyCRM dedicated cloud offering is a must for mid-sized
growing companies and this approach allows you to use you own purchased
licences but gain the benefit of always on infrastructure that is fully
managed.
To find out more about MyCRM dedicated visit http://hosted.mycrmgroup.com/pricing.aspx
or email sales@mycrmgroup.com