Financing solutions
Microsoft Financing offers two types of finance - commercial loans and finance leases. There are no unscheduled end-of-lease residual values to pay or hidden charges, nor the extra fees or administrative expenses that you might expect from a bank or other finance lenders. What’s more, where needed we are happy to customise the finance solution to meet the specific needs of your business.
The best option for your business
Microsoft Financing can include:
| • | Microsoft software licensing: Enterprise Agreements, Select Licences - Licence (L), License and Software Assurance (L and SA) - and Renewals
. | | • | True-ups (standalone or linked with Enterprise Agreements)
| | • | Deployment enablement (Services)
| | • | Consulting and other project financing
| | • | Partner products and services
| | • | No hidden charges - typically no deposit or down-payment are required and there are no administration/documentation fees or end of term settlement payments required
| | • | Third party hardware and software related to Microsoft products
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These could include a number of the following components, depending on your circumstances:
Monthly, quarterly or semi annual repayments |
In advance or in arrears
| Deferral options | Deferral of payment from 3-12 months, followed by a regular payment stream
Annual deferral of payments
Waterfall deferrals - deferral of payment cascades over subsequent years
| Irregular payments | Skip payments
Seasonal payments
Unique structures
| Deployments and project implementations | Ramped payments match benefits with payment streams
Start low and ramp to higher levels when your business realises benefits from the installation |
Example - deferral of deployment/implementation
[This is based on existing PPT slide, with “Office 2003” updated to “Office 2007” and the timescale moved from 2006/7 to 2007/8]
Situation
| • | EA Contract expires June 2007
. | | • | Customer is already licensed for Office 2007
| | • | deployment of Office 2007 yet
| | • | Consulting and other project financing
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Complication
| • | No investments into EA/SA until deployment of at least 50% of Office 2007 licenses - this leaves a 9 month budget gap |
Solution: customized financing plan
| • | Microsoft Financing will pay the first instalment in July 2007
| | • | The customer can defer the first financing payment until March 2008, or alternatively start with lower payments and ramp them up when the deployment is further along
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Quick Links| • | The smart way to acquire the IT your company needs now |
| • | Financing Solutions Details of our flexible finance solutions |
| • | Details of our current financing promotion |
| • | Calculate just how affordable an IT financing solution from Microsoft could be |
| • | Contact us to find out more about how MS Financing can help you |
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