“If you are not an IT company, why spend so much time and so many resources on it?

Concentrate on your core business, that is selling products and services and leave IT to the Pro’s”

The smallest Amerishare customer has 1 user, while the largest has more than 6,000 in 9 different countries.

Many of our customers that ran IT in-house would spend in excess of 4% of their revenues on IT. After the migration to hosted applications this would be less than half of that.

It is generally more economical to have a centralized server farm rather than a staffed infrastructure at one or more geographically spread locations.

A dedicated centralized IT platform and the deployment of highly effective and efficient thin client technology can reduce IT costs up to 45%.

The main recurring cost drivers in IT are labor and licensing.

IT specialists generally need to be available around the clock and IT staffing can get quite expensive, especially if several skill sets are needed. Each specialty usually comes in the form of a new IT employee and each individual employee is usually underutilized.

With centralized server computing we employ the necessary people for each special need: technicians, software engineers, network engineers, database experts, etc. On our central platform, however, we are able to spread their cost over all customers, reducing the overall cost per customer and increasing the utilization of these fine resources.

Licensing is often possible by concurrent user count, instead of the standard installation per PC. In many cases, the software licenses allow licensing by device or maximum simultaneous user count. This is cheaper than the local installation on every user’s computer.

Investing in a decent hardware infrastructure is costly and for many companies prohibitive.

Instead of settling for less costly, less reliable options, it is more cost effective to outsource onto a good and solid reliable server farm with proper security measures, backup devices and redundancy.