HR Managers and CTOs often ask us the benefits of Empxtrack SaaS over the perpetual licensing mechanism.
Here is a comparison chart:
SAAS (Hosted) Licensing Structure | Perpetual Licensing Structure | |
Cost of Software | Lower cost | Can go as high as four times the SAAS license cost |
Payment Frequency | Annually | One time |
Annual Maintenance Cost | Nil | To be incurred by the client (can vary between 30% -50% of the cost of the software) |
Hardware Costs | Nil | To be incurred by the client |
Implementation Cost | Nil | To be incurred by the client (Can be 15% upwards of the total cost of the software) |
Data Back Up | Data backup managed by us | To be managed by the client |
Personnel Cost & requirement | We would maintain it for you. | To be managed by the client |
Security | Our responsibility | Client has to manage data security, access etc. |
Upgrades | Upgrades to servers, software, databases, application managed by us and provided automatically | Client has to manage all upgrades |
Infrastructure | We manage the servers, networks, provide scalability and access, performance tuning and application management | Client has to manage the infrastructure, servers, networks, performance tuning etc. |
Access | Clients can access the application on-demand from anywhere. Note this can be managed based on specific needs. | Typically access is limited to client intranet. |