Reduce your Total Cost of Ownership and Increase the Business Value of IT
When faced with replacing UNIX systems, many customers find Windows Server offers scalability, reliability, and enterprise application availability that rivals traditional legacy platforms—but at a fraction of the price. In addition, Windows Server provides better business value through increased productivity, reduced operations complexity, and broader use of IT.
Windows Server solutions provide market-leading TCO and business value
Microsoft platforms provide long-term, cost-effective solutions by offering better productivity, lower risk, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). And, all this can be achieved while leveraging your existing assets in applications, data, and skills.
When comparing TCO for different platforms, it is important to look at all costs incurred over a significant length of time—not just upfront purchase costs.
Initial software costs make up only 7 percent of total cost of ownership.
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Staffing—the cost of managing and maintaining IT systems—accounts for 60 percent of TCO.
Downtime is 15 percent of TCO.
These two cost areas are the largest contributors to TCO over three years.
The resources below will help you to determine TCO factors for your organization and illustrate how other organizations have been able to substantially lower costs by selecting Windows Server solutions over legacy systems.
White Papers and Resources
Trends in UNIX Migration: An Enterprise Perspective Pique Solutions: Shattering old myths about migration from UNIX, the results of a study conducted by Pique Solutions offer compelling reasons for enterprises to consider migration from UNIX® to the Windows Server® operating system. Read the Report: PDF | XPS
Driving Lower TCO and Rapid ROI through UNIX Migrations: IT Decision-Maker Perspectives Mercer Management Consulting: Mercer Management Consulting conducted a research study with 30 senior IT decision-makers globally to understand why organizations are migrating from UNIX. Read the Report
Demonstrating Business Value: Selling to Your C-Level Executives IDC: This IDC white paper is designed to better equip IT professionals to communicate the business value that IT operations provide to a company’s operations by integrating a focus on the corporate return on investments associated with IT projects.
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Understanding UNIX Migration: A Demand-Side View IDC: This document summarizes the results from a recent survey of 400 UNIX/RISC customers regarding their plans for UNIX migrations.
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Case Studies
Chung Shan Medical University Hospital To support its in-house healthcare information system and decrease the associated total cost of server ownership, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital in Taiwan chose Windows Server 2008 over UNIX for the basis of its infrastructure. Read the Case Study
Neighborhood Health Plan By implementing a Microsoft Business Intelligence Solution to replace its Novell and IBM technologies, Massachusetts-based Neighborhood Health Plan saved $2.2 million in consulting costs and greatly improved its analysis and reporting capabilities. Read the Case Study
System C Healthcare System C Healthcare reduced its development time and costs by 50 per cent, and created an easy-to-use product that benefits thousands of patients by switching to a Microsoft solution.
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Morgan Street Document Systems Morgan Street Document Systems realized a 1,000 percent growth in sales, along with a 90 percent decrease in TCO by switching its online document storage service from a Unix-based system to a more scalable and reliable Microsoft solution.
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Unilever Gains Lower TCO Supporting SAP with SQL Server and Windows Server Unilever wanted to move its SAP supply chain management database to a platform that would provide a better total cost of ownership than its existing UNIX-based solution.
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