Online CRM vs on-premises

The benefits of online CRM

Hosted CRM solutions offer countlesss benefits to companies, here are just few of the biggest benefits:

Rapid deployment: From 1 day to little as 3 day, the system can be available to the company whatever number of users...Company do not need to invest up-front time in the planning of hardware and software purchases. On-premises implementation can easily exceed 12 months and the cost is exponential... Who can wait more than 12 months from start to finish into a project... The market can't wait!

Easy upgrades: Product enhancements and upgrades occur instantly, company do not have to do it, the system does it on- the-fly. Your business will never be impacted. However on-premises solutions often suffer from slow product development cycle. Upgrades take time and need on-going investment.

Reduced cost: Company do not need to purchase expensive hardware that need to be implemented by highly-paid IT staff. Online CRM is pain free, no harware, no servers, no techies to recruit, no upgrades, no everything...

Security safeguards: Online CRM secures your data in a high-security datacentre. This is paramount for CRM suppliers if they want to survive. LeadMaster make security its main priority and we have been doing it well for the past 14 years.

Flexibility: Hosted CRM is flexible and customisable to your business. Compant experiencing downsize or upsize can use online CRM to do so at no extra cost. This is a beauty of the cloud-computing.

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On-Premise Assumptions*: 
   
Number of users: 35
On-premise per user software cost: $795
Annual software maintenance: 22% of software cost
Cost of server(s) for on-premise software: $9,000
Annual hardware maintenance cost: 12%
Fully loaded cost of IT resource for support: $90,000
Allocation of FTE to support software (Ops/DBA/support): 25%
Cost of firewall: $2,500
Cost of UPS: $1,200
Cost of operating system and RDBMS: $6,500
         
Hosted Assumption*:    

Hosted cost per user per month: $85

*Comparison scenario produced by crmlandmark.com on Total Cost of Ownership for hosted and non-hosted CRM application.