Google Apps Premier Edition Pricing

For any businesses in today's economy, a proactive approach to cost savings is a must. The juicy IT budgets are a thing of the past and managers are facing more and more pressure to reduce and eliminate costs. One straight forward way to help reduce costs is to offload the burden of managing server hardware and software as well as all of fees that accompany a messaging deployment.

Messaging infrastructure implementations or upgrades often carry significant costs such as:

• Setting up an email server (or servers!)
• Buying the hardware (servers, firewalls, switches)
• Buying software (Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes, associated client access licenses, anti-virus, anti-spam, archival software, etc.)
• Data centre costs (Racking, cooling and powering your hardware)

And do not forget the already thinly spread time your IT manager has to dedicate to keeping the whole thing running, 24x7x365.

Review the following example. The estimated yearly costs of running Microsoft Exchange 2007 for a firm of 25 people could easily exceed $18,000 in up front costs for hardware, licensing, and labor as well as an estimated annual cost of over $37,000 for infrastructure maintenance and labor. Google Apps Premier Edition comes in significantly lower and just over $4,000.

	Microsoft Exchange 2007	Google Apps Premier Edition
Up-front cost
Total server hardware cost ($5,000 USD per server)	10,000	0
Total Microsoft Exchange software licensing cost	4,627	0
Configuration labor cost	3,361	1,362
Total up-front cost	$18,280	$1,362
Annual cost
Google Apps Premier Edition licenses	0	1,250
Total infrastructure maintenance cost	2,657	0
Administration labor cost	35,120	3,021
Total annual cost	$37,777	$4,241

For a fraction of that price of implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, we can get any sized business, from one user to one thousand users up and running on Google Apps Premier Edition in no time.

Not only will you get a corporate branded secure email solution with 25GB of storage, it will also open up other business tools like corporate instant messaging, calendaring, document collaboration, voice & video chat and secure wikis. All of this starts at $50 per user per year with no minimum license count. You can grow as you need to, on your schedule. Let us help you take advantage of these powerful tools so you can focus on your business. Get in touch now to get the ball rolling and request a price quote.

* All costs in USD; excluding professional services for setup, management.
** Savings estimates are based on sample customers, and may not reflect your actual experience with Google Apps or Microsoft Exchange 2007.