"it has been a
dirty little secret of the software industry that the maintenance part
of the business is the largest part of vendors’ revenues, and is
really where vendors meet profitability (if not “money for the
caviar,” meaning their profits exceed original profit margins"
P.J. Jakovljevic - Technology
Evaluation Centers
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Figure (1) - Our competitors charge a series of fees based on the number
of software end-users
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Our competitors charge a
software license fee coupled with annual "per-user" license
fees, maintenance fees, upgrade fees, integration fees and per-user hosting fees.
As illustrated, the initial acquisition cost for our competitor's
offering can be well in excess of $500K with continuing annual fees of
$200K or more based on the end-user population and hosting
considerations.
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"Learning
officers at two Fortune 500 companies last week pointed out that
vendors' insistence on applying per-seat licensing contracts to
companies with large numbers of potential end users can negate the
returns associated with e-learning."
Costs
negate e-learning ROI - ComputerWorld
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Figure (2) - KMx Enterpise provides flat annual pricing, regardless of the number
of end-users
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With KMx, there are no
user fees, no maintenance fees and no upgrade fees. Our
standards-based approach significantly lowers the cost of
integration and shortens the implementation schedule to weeks, vice
months.
As illustrated in the chart, KMx provides flat annual pricing,
regardless of the number of end-users and has an initial acquisition
cost that is hundreds of thousands of dollars less than our competitors.
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We also offer a
Perpetual License
that provides
an unlimited use (including source code access) software license
agreement with all 12 Language Packs, installation, Human Resource
System Integration (HRIS) and Single Sign-On (SSO) integration, LMS
data/course migration, training, support and software maintenance
(including all upgrades) for 5 years. |
