Pangea Foundation’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications free nonprofits from the gut-wrenching pain of making expensive front-end investments in IT infrastructure. But that’s only the beginning. With SaaS, you’ll avoid the need to hire more IT experts to administer all that infrastructure, leaving you more money to invest in your mission.
SaaS—the antidote to the costs and burdens linked to desktop software.
Eliminate the headaches and heavy costs of installing, maintaining, and upgrading software on every computer you own. Escape the drudgery and expenses of having to configure servers, firewalls, backup devices and the network. Avoid the never-ending frustration and uncontainable cash outlays required to maintain and upgrade all those devices as they age over time. Break free from the dreadful monotony of having to troubleshoot third-party software problems. Steer clear of the budget draining technical support requirements you would otherwise have with desktop software. Get rid of the burdensome chore of backing up your data—every single day of the year. Break away from the tyranny of constant worry over securing your infrastructure and keeping it up and running 24x7x365.
Relax. We have people for this so you can focus on your mission instead.
Never get bogged down with mundane IT tasks again. You’ll have some of the world’s leading IT experts doing the heavy lifting for you so you don’t have to. And you can relax knowing you’ll have a world-class technology infrastructure keeping your data secure. Pangea Foundation’s SaaS applications give nonprofits true IT Independence. That means you and your IT organization will be able to focus on more important things—like innovating the technical operations of your organization, or finding even better ways to serve people in need.
SaaS gives nonprofits the best technologies—without the huge price tag.
Moore’s Law says that technology doubles its ability to process and store data every 18 months. So why not stay ahead of the technology curve by having access to the latest technologies—all the time. Pangea Foundation puts the best technologies to work for nonprofits—without the enormous price tag. You’ll be able to do more while paying less. You’ll be more productive. Save more time. Improve service delivery. And that room full of servers—you’ll no longer need them.
Total Cost of Ownership: SaaS versus on-premise software. SaaS wins.
According to a study by Triple Tree and the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), on-demand software deployments are 50 to 90 percent faster than deployments of traditional desktop software, with a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) between five and ten times less.
TCO represents a valuable way to calculate the total costs related to a technology solution. TCO is a particularly important consideration for nonprofits evaluating outcome measurement and impact reporting software. TCO allows you to analyze not only the initial cost of a nonprofit SaaS solution, but more importantly the total cost of the solution over its useful life.
TCO takes into account all the true costs surrounding the software purchase, including software acquisition costs, initial deployment, testing, implementation, training, software usability, support services, software maintenance, IT infrastructure costs, server administration, security, and subsequent software and hardware upgrades. Since SaaS requires no expensive on-premise IT infrastructure, not only do you save on the up-front hardware costs required by traditional client/server software, but you avoid the painful costs of replacing all that budget-breaking IT hardware when it becomes obsolete just 3-5 years later.
TCO analysis should go together with other factors as well, including the ability to realize your strategic goals, reduce deployment times from months to minutes, manage risk, improve service delivery, contain costs, manage predictability, and solve disaster recovery objectives. When considered in totality, the entire question of cost of ownership comparisons between SaaS and traditional desktop software becomes very clear. SaaS significantly reduces your total cost of ownership when compared with traditional on-premise software solutions.
By using SaaS, you’ll be able to pay for your software services over time on a subscription basis without the need to spend months and millions of dollars in upfront infrastructure costs and IT resources. With SaaS, payback is faster and Nonprofit Business Intelligence is more effective.
Think of SaaS like your phone, cable, electric, and Internet services.
Instead of having to front the heavy costs of building the entire infrastructure required to deliver these valuable services, you only pay for what you use. Think of SaaS the same way. SaaS puts the world’s leading technologies to work for both large and small nonprofits for a fraction of the cost required for traditional on-premise structures.
SaaS lets you to invest more in your mission—less in your infrastructure.
SaaS allows nonprofits to tap into the full power of the Web. You’ll be able to devote more time serving people and less time planning and reviewing your capital budget for IT. You’ll avoid the hidden costs, drawn out deployments, low success rates, and higher risks involved with traditional desktop software. With no hardware or software to buy, install, maintain, or upgrade, you’ll have faster deployments, speedy implementation, and rapid time to value. SaaS replaces budget-breaking, inflexible, high-maintenance desktop software with its very real cost and flexibility advantages. We think you’ll quickly find that SaaS from Pangea Foundation is more than a productive tool.
On-Demand SaaS from Pangea Foundation is the key to ROI.
