RUN
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RUN
The costs you expect and budget for, including software support and maintenance.
- Annual maintenance fees
What's your Software Tax?
The true cost of software ownership extends far beyond your maintenance bill.
Unnecessary upgrades, migrations and vendor-driven change create additional costs and operational drag that many organizations struggle to quantify.
Use Origina's Software Tax Calculator to estimate the potential impact on cost, capacity and waste within your organization.
Estimate Your Software Tax
For every $1 spent on software maintenance, organizations may incur an additional $1.85 in upgrade and drag costs.
Enter your annual software support and maintenance spend to estimate the potential impact across Run, Upgrade and Drag.
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Type your annual software maintenance and support spend into the field. We'll use your figure to calculate your estimated Software Tax.
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Calculating your Software Tax…
- Applying your maintenance baseline
- Modeling OEM upgrade cycle costs
- Estimating compliance, downtime and productivity drag
- Compiling your RUN / UPGRADE / DRAG split
Understanding Your Software Tax
RUN / UPGRADE / DRAG
The Software Tax accumulates in three ways.
Your estimated annual Software Tax
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UPGRADE
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UPGRADE
The costs created by upgrades, migrations, infrastructure changes, testing, training and vendor-driven change.
- Upgrade implementation
- Infrastructure & hardware upgrades
- External consulting & system integration
- Migration, testing & training
DRAG
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DRAG
The hidden costs that rarely appear on an invoice, including diverted talent, lost productivity, disruption and delayed innovation.
- Regulatory compliance, risk & re-certifications
- Administration & software audit
- Business downtime & disruption
- Loss of IT productivity & resource capacity
% based on the aggregate estimated cost of the OEM-related spend and resource drag.
What could those resources achieve instead?
Every dollar allocated to unnecessary upgrades, migrations and vendor-driven change is a dollar that cannot be invested elsewhere. Reducing the Software Tax can help free budget, talent and capacity for business transformation. Talk to an Origina expert to explore how reducing unnecessary technology change could help redirect resources towards the priorities that matter most.
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This calculator provides an illustrative estimate based on your annual software support and maintenance spend and assumed costs of running, upgrading and managing enterprise software. Results are directional, not a quote or guarantee of savings, and may not reflect your organization's actual costs. An Origina expert can help assess your specific environment and options.
Take back control of your software roadmap
Your software strategy should reflect your business priorities, not your vendor's upgrade schedule.Independent software maintenance gives you more choice over when to change, what to maintain and where to invest. Keep the software that's working, avoid unnecessary change and put resources back toward the priorities that matter.