How Cabiri Reduces TCO
The beauty of a composable approach for a new platform is that it allows the business to choose the right tools for their requirements. Cabiri brings to its customers not only advice on the best technology for their needs but also how the costs of that technology will affect their bottom line. By applying a cost effectiveness lens across the project, Cabiri drives the potential for a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). And does this without compromising on functionality or performance.
So how do we do it?
The costs associated with any project typically fall across three areas.
Upfront costs around purchase price, procurement effort, development and integration.
The running costs associated with operating, maintaining and supporting the finished product. This also includes the cost of training the teams in these areas, and the cost of hiring into them.
And then the hidden costs, which can manifest themselves in losses due to downtime, outages, and decommissioning effort.
When Cabiri considers the TCO of any platform it investigates how each of these three areas can be minimised for the business.
Listening - Cabiri’s first line of defence towards a TCO win for any suite of requirements. Cabiri are skilled and experienced listeners, understanding and documenting your challenges from all angles and all levels right from inception. Starting with pre-sales and continuing through the life of the project. A solid foundation for tailoring successful commerce solutions. Cabiri helps you select components required for integrations, whilst avoiding costs associated with unnecessary features. Or plan them for a later date.
Licence Fee Planning - Having a scope beyond just the initial purchase costs, Cabiri’s licence fee planning strategy is a comprehensive approach that considers costs associated with the ongoing operation and maintenance a system. This is extended to take into account factors such as upgrades, licences, training and support.
Cost Transparency - Cabiri’s working practices ensures cost transparency by maintaining an open dialogue with our clients. Itemise business expenses, highlighting overheads and breaking down the costs of each service to show where the money is going. Taking this approach helps businesses to make informed decisions.
Informed Decision Making: Stakeholders can make informed decisions regarding the implementation, utilisation and management of system components. Informed decisions help avoid unexpected expenses and resource allocation optimisation. Well informed stakeholders can identify opportunities for cost optimization and align with business goals.
Learning With Experts - A TCO integrated approach leverages the transference of skills from Cabiri to Cabiri clients. Working with the business team from the beginning to transfer knowledge and skills required for system operation and maintenance through a range of learning opportunities. Active 'learning with experts' significantly reduces TCO, promotes growth and in-house skills.
Popular Skills - Cabiri champion integrations requiring modern easy to source skills, further reducing TCO and addressing future recruitment requirements.
Technology: Cabiri integrations automate routine tasks and workflows (such as testing) to reduce resource costs and improve operational efficiency and stability. Cloud-Native integrations leverage services to deliver scalable, flexible solutions. Eliminating the need for upfront infrastructure investments. Two further TCO wins.
Life-cycle - Cabiri TCO friendly composable integrations do not have a hard set end of life expiry date. Composable commerce facilitates seamless integration, reducing costs associated with maintaining disparate systems and data silos. Future development responds rapidly to ongoing needs as and when they are required, in smaller increments over time. Cabiri integrations are scalable, flexible and vendor independent. Vendor independence reduces dependency on a single vendor, offering improved negotiating power and minimising the risk of vendor lock-in.
Cabiri promotes a holistic approach to TCO, planning it in right from the start. This in combination with their popular “Best of Need” strategy, ensures businesses do not waste money implementing expensive features that they do not need, or ones that don’t meet their requirements. Ultimately, Cabiri’s long term strategic thinking allows their clients to achieve a lower TCO and hence a higher ROI. Development is made easier, faster, more efficient and more productive.
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