OnDemand - whats the best "price per x" you have seen as an OnDemand offering
It can be a "price per CPU" or "price per transaction" or even "price per process"
This is not a SAAS typical question - so I have no interest in hearing about price per user solutions for CRM or other hosted apps - I want the more inventive stuff
Cheers
Alan Crean
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Hi Alan
Don't know if this is any help, but VoxIQ uses 'price per port' for automated solutions on a sliding scale downwards in batches as number of ports increases
all the best
Archie
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Alan
I'm not with IBM any more, and have not worked in server environment for over two years now - so I'm pretty well out of date I'm afraid
If you need an OnDemand printing offer - particularly in the high end production space - give me a shout!
Phil
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I am assuming you are referring to the IBM "OnDemand" solution? If not, you may want to clarify your question. I think price is always driven by the market so think the best way to understand what the best price is to do talk to your customers in the market. I am not a customer of OnDemand solutions so cannot answer what is the best price.
Alan,
The best pricing I have seen is around NetApp storage which is built around a Virtual Data Centre offering that BT provide. Currently we are offering managed storage on FAS6080 devices for around 20p per gig per month but that assumes a minimal commitment of up to 150TB in the first year.
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From a vendor perspective, you may want to contact Laurie McCabe from PrintVision. Her e-mail address is Laurie.McCabe@cox.net.
From a client-side case reference I have provided links to my series on Virginia (Yes Virginia! There is more to e-procurement than software). If you like, I would be happy to put you in direct contact with Bob Sievert, Director, eProcurement Bureau.
I am also including an article I wrote based on my series of interviews with Ariba (The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand?)which should also prove to be useful from an information resource standpoint.
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We sell our e-procurement software for as low as $25/module/month/user
The modules are :
Requisition, RFQ, Purchase Orders, Receiving, Invoicing and Inventory.
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Deffinity offers "Price per Project". Monthly fee for each (active) project you run, with unlimited users and documents.
What firms want is to have a single process connecting everybody, not partial processes with loads of bottlenecks and workarounds. User pricing just creates a new headache (license counting) and undermines the effectiveness of the solution for the buying organisation.
There is no fee for "pending projects" as this would undermine the validity of the resource planning function - you need to be able to see every potential project if you are going to get an accurate picture.
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There are several examples of £x per GB pricing in the storage and hosting market, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is $0.18 per GB-Month of storage used (for EU-based businesses) with variable rates for data transfer (between about $0.1 and $0.17 per GB. S3 throws lots of smaller disks (for faster IOP’s) at the problem of resource. I suppose the model isn’t anything new of course, Google have been doing something similar since 2007 (up to 6Gb for $20/ year, up to 250GB for $500/ year) etc
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers something similar for servers, essentially ‘elastic’ availability of servers on a virtual basis. Again the model is rental on a virtual server basis - $0.10 per month per server for a basic spec, though you only pay for what you use.
That doesn’t really give you anything ‘inventive’ though?
The smart money is to eventually look at trying to charge per IOPS or per process or per transaction - like gas or electricity you pay for what you use and the server provider takes the hit on the actual hardware platform etc.
I don’t know that there is a sensible charging model for that yet though; charging per IOPS could get very expensive, very quickly, for a heavy-use web site.
Hope it helps
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Alan,
we provide an incentivised pricing module - the more transactions per calendar month, the lower the cost of each transaction (in band ranges).
rgds
Derek
