Total cost of ownership in the cloud

Source: Yankee Group DecisionNote technology analysis

Having difficulty understanding the benefits of on-premises software vs. cloud-based systems? The picture above helps give a good understanding of the hidden costs of on-premise solutions versus cloud solutions.

For many organizations, the true costs of both solutions are poorly understood, making it difficult to compare total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) across the two options.

Cloud-based applications like Edsby make great sense in K-12 school districts, where instructional technology and IT teams are often required to deploy and support software to ten times as many users as an average company for one tenth the budget of an average company.

Dallas Kachan

Dallas Kachan is VP of Marketing at Edsby. He has led, worked with or consulted to dozens of technology firms in Silicon Valley and Canada over thirty years. He was the original vice president of sales and marketing for SoftArc, developers of FirstClass, credited as one of the first internet-based LMSes. Dallas was managing director and head of global marketing for the Cleantech Group, the organization that founded the cleantech investment theme, and served on the board of the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Cleantech Institute. He is the author of the travel and adventure novel, The Starship Diaries.