What impacts your monthly price?
The complexity of the technology you are using and your company structure directly affects your monthly service rates. How your company operates, the clients you serve, your office locations, the line of business applications you use – these all go into the technology complexity that influences the price.
We often see two different businesses with the same number of employees have very different needs. For example, a 20-person CPA firm will have very different needs than a 20-person manufacturer. Both need a common level of security, reliability and support for the business in Milwaukee, but they can vary greatly in terms of support hours, core applications, numbers of servers and the amount of data they produce.
Core business
applications
There tends to be a direct correlation between the number of core business applications that you use and the complexity of your IT systems. These applications are those you need to run your business. Things like QuickBooks or other accounting systems, CRM applications like Salesforce, ERP applications like Made-to-Manage, or one of the many industry-specific business applications that many small and mid-sized businesses use.
Number of
locations
The more offices and remote workers your company has, the greater the complexity. This includes ensuring that all locations work together smoothly and that everyone gets access to the resources they need – while making sure that outside parties are kept out.
Total amount
of data
This one isn’t quite so obvious but can often have a big impact on pricing as it typically affects the amount of storage that needs to be managed, protected and potentially recovered. Because of the variable nature of this between companies, this item may not be included in the typical per-user pricing.