The Costs and Savings of Virtualization

While cost is a major consideration for any business, given our current and extremely challenging economy, it is a much larger factor now more than ever.

When money gets cheap, people and services get cheap. The past decade has seen a massive increase in worthless business deals, fraud, and all around bad business.

However, there is a bright light in all of today’s turmoil. The value of money has gone up, which means the value of relationships has gone up as well. It is during these times many individuals and companies will establish some of the strongest and most productive relationships they have ever had. People will rely on others now more than ever before, and put great effort into establishing and keeping good business relations.

But what does all of this mean in relation to the cost and savings of Virtualization? Virtualization is about more than just finances, it’s about a business wanting to grow and expand while increasing productivity through the use of technology and method, all while establishing good solid relationships with others.

Virtualization generally decreases costs across the board at any company, but more importantly, Virtualization also directly affects productivity to the level where sales and profit are affected. Since Virtualization affects every aspect of how a company operates, it’s impossible to assign a number ahead of time as to the exact impact it will have on finances, but it’s more than just a financial impact, it’s a complete business impact, and an extremely positive one. Does it save money for your team to now be able to use a single search field to find data in any document that has been converted through the “going paperless” process? Of course; it changes everything. What about your team designing your next major product through the company’s collaborative workspace, posting images, writing up details, receiving comments and feedback, and updating pages, which automatically sends notifications to all involved parties who are participating in the progress? Of course all of this makes a big different in working together in a more focused, efficient, and productive fashion; and these are just a few examples.

Some companies charge well over $100,000 just for the software to address a few aspects of Virtualization, and often these solutions are highly complex and specialized and can take months to integrate. Granted some of these products have focused highly complex and necessary solutions depending on the type of business, simply put the cost of software and solutions on an enterprise level is far from “company friendly” unless the company is swimming in cash.

So with Mercois, is it worth $10,000 for a 25 person business to Virtualize? For that company to learn all the most productive processes, policies, habits, and technology in order to operate as efficiently as possible?

What are the traditional areas in which Virtualization will save a company money?

• Office Space / Rent
• Office Equipment Costs (furniture, computers, etc)
• Office Security / Misc Overhead
• Electricity
• Paperwork
• Commute (cost and stress factor)
• Smoke Breaks (a huge time waster)
• Employee status vs. Work for hire (tax and paperwork savings)

What about areas that help the company save money through efficiency and productivity?

• Task & Work Processing – Your team always knows what they need to do and all work is easily planned, managed and tracked.
• Online Collaboration – No more misplaced documents or mismanaged time.
• Instant Results – Depending on the business type, by using the proper tools, feedback, reviews, and verification can be conducted in a record amount of time.

We’re redefining the way companies are Virtualized, and we’re doing it on a budget that most any business can afford.

The question isn’t “how much will Virtualization cost my company?”, but instead “how much is it costing my company to not Virtualize?”