Has anyone performed an ROI on migrating from R5 to R6? I’m looking for “real” savings to offset the cost to upgrade not “soft” savings that I realize will be achieved with the new features.
Subject: ROI For Migrating From R5 to R6
How are you defining hard vs soft savings?
Have you looked at:
http://www.lotus.com/news/news.nsf/link/3rdparty-notesdomino
Subject: ROI For Migrating From R5 to R6
Thanks for pointing me to this. Unfortunately the link to the Ferris report doesn’t seem to work for me. Also, unless I can reduce my expenses (i.e. am willing to cut my budget), I can’t justify the R6 upgrade. The soft savings from productivity, less admin. support, etc. all need to translate into less employees being needed, us buying less network bandwidth than we have planned (which isn’t going to happen just from this upgrade). But, as I said, I do appreciate the feedback and would still love to hear from someone who has documented hard savings from the upgrade.
Subject: RE: ROI For Migrating From R5 to R6
My current client has cut head count, consolidated several Sun and NT servers on to iSeries boxes, moved servers to an off-site hosting facility and reduced network traffic by upgrading to R6.
However, if you’re looking for a particular justification for your own environment, then cutting expenses will entirely depend on where you’re spending money now. Are you constantly repairing servers? Administering backups? Creating new users? Answering help desk calls? Coding workarounds on your website?