This includes any costs you incur from outside 3rd party IT vendors whether on a contract or as needed arrangement. As expenses of this type can vary significantly from month to month, use a monthly average for this field.

• Operating Systems (either on workstations or servers) - installing, patching, updating, configuring, troubleshooting, or similar work
• Software (either on workstations or servers) - installing, patching, updating, configuring, troubleshooting, or similar work
• Managing data backup and restoration
• Licensing (either on workstations or servers) – installing, updating, auditing, troubleshooting, or similar work
• User support – resolving user help requests for such things as forgotten passwords, software settings, general troubleshooting, common end user questions, or similar work
• Virus and/or malware prevention and remediation
• Security configuration and/or auditing

This includes any costs you incur from on-staff IT personnel including wages, benefits, and other compensation.

• Operating Systems (either on workstations or servers) - installing, patching, updating, configuring, troubleshooting, or similar work
• Software (either on workstations or servers) - installing, patching, updating, configuring, troubleshooting, or similar work
• Managing data backup and restoration
• Licensing (either on workstations or servers) – installing, updating, auditing, troubleshooting, or similar work
• User support – resolving user help requests for such things as forgotten passwords, software settings, general troubleshooting, common end user questions, or similar work
• Virus and/or malware prevention and remediation
• Security configuration and/or auditing

• Operating Systems (either on workstations or servers) - installing, patching, updating, configuring, troubleshooting, or similar work
• Software (either on workstations or servers) - installing, patching, updating, configuring, troubleshooting, or similar work
• Managing data backup and restoration
• Licensing (either on workstations or servers) – installing, updating, auditing, troubleshooting, or similar work
• User support – resolving user help requests for such things as forgotten passwords, software settings, general troubleshooting, common end user questions, or similar work
• Virus and/or malware prevention and remediation
• Security configuration and/or auditing

This includes all of your organization’s file, database, or other server(s) and all the infrastructure required to support their operation. Examples of items that would be in this category are server racks, UPS and other power conditioning equipment, cooling equipment, backup generators, etc.

This is the number of years that you expect to use your on-premise file server(s) and related infrastructure before needing to upgrade and/or replace it.

This is the total monthly expenditure of your firm for any hardware repairs, upgrades, maintenance agreements, or service contracts for any of your file server(s) or related infrastructure. As expenses of this type can vary significantly from month to month, use a monthly average for this field.

This is the total cost of a complete workstation you provide for your detailing staff to do their work.

This is the number of years that you expect to use your detailing workstations before needing to upgrade and/or replace them.

This is the total monthly expenditure of your firm for any hardware repairs, upgrades, maintenance agreements, or service contracts on each of your detailing workstations. As expenses of this type can vary significantly from month to month, use a monthly average for this field.

The above figures represent projected monthly expenses for your organization based on your answers to the preceding questions. Utilizing the SDS2 Cloud platform will open up many opportunities that can add significant profit to your bottom line. The amount of your gains will vary depending upon what capabilities and features of the SDS2 Cloud service you choose to implement, and to what degree you choose to implement them. You can gain valuable insight into what other firms have achieved by looking at our case studies.

Some of the ways SDS2 Cloud can enhance your profitability:

• Eliminate difficulties and inefficiencies created by scheduling or work-flow management. You no longer have to determine who can work on what projects, at what times, based on their connectivity (or lack thereof) on a local area network (LAN).

• All project stakeholders can have access to real time data. Now you can integrate engineers, architects, general contractors, fabricators, etc. into your workflow in real time. An engineer utilizing SDS2 Model Review can see in-model changes in real time, work with expanded design calcs, and approve changes on the fly. The architectural team can view proposed changes in the 3D model without trying to visualize them based on an emailed description. General contractors can use the SDS2 viewer for field verification when questions arise on the job site. By leveraging the power of SDS2 Cloud, you can dramatically reduce RFI timelines and offer your customers shorter design cycles.

• When your IT infrastructure is virtualized, you are no longer limited to traditional brick and mortar offices with local employees. You now have the ability to utilize remote workers from nearly any location plus you can offer your traditional employees the flexibility to work from home. With SDS2 Cloud, geographical location is no longer a barrier to attracting the best talent.

• The size of your company is no longer limited by your physical office space. By leveraging remote and at-home workers, you no longer face the dilemma of needing to hire additional staff but having nowhere to house them.

• Multiple Cloud based detailing firms can combine forces to collaborate on, and land, larger jobs than they are capable of individually.

• You can offer your unallocated capacity to other SDS2 Cloud based detailing firms who need additional manpower. Detailing no longer needs to be a “feast or famine” endeavor. When your schedule is slow you can keep your workforce happily employed by helping other firms who are in a crunch and vice versa. Many SDS2 Cloud based detailing firms have established long term reciprocal relationships with their peers by leveraging this capability.

• Track and monitor your user’s production and productivity with the optional user monitoring feature available on the SDS2 Cloud. Our powerful monitoring software will give you peace of mind knowing that all your employees, even the distant remote workers, can be tracked and held accountable.

• Reduce, or even eliminate, brick and mortar expenses. With the ability to have your staff, either fully or partially, work-from-home or remote locations you can realize significant savings in your monthly overhead. Examples of traditional brick and mortar expenses that can be reduced (or eliminated) include:

• Office space rental

• Utilities

• Property taxes

• Maintenance such as lawn care and snow removal