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Total Cost of Ownership
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is defined as all direct expenses associated with deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting electronic messaging systems in an enterprise environment. TCO expenses can include but are not limited to:
- Software acquisition costs
- Hardware acquisition costs
- Training costs (Administrator Training)
- System Administration and maintenance
Radicati Group TCO Study Results
FirstClass stands head and shoulders above other integrated collaborative messaging systems in terms of total cost of ownership. A recent study published by the Radicati Group (click here to download a summary) compared the Total Cost of Ownership for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange.
The Radicati Group, Inc. is an International Consulting and Market Reseach firm that specializes in the areas of Messaging, Unified Communications, and Wireless Applications to name only a few. Their market research and industry analysis always takes a global perspective, providing their clients with the inforamtion that is necessary to compete on a global basis.
We have calculated the TCO for FirstClass and the table below highlights some of our findings.
TCO Summary
Compare Radicati's footprint analysis of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes to FirstClass!:
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