| | Traditional Implementation | Campus IT On-Demand |
Financial Investment | Large financial investment, often hundreds of thousands of dollars, for hardware, software liceses, IT resources and more. Unpredictable maintenance expenses. | Initial costs are minimal. No need to purchase hardware or software; no need for added IT personnel. Ongoing fees are low, predictable and easy to budget. |
IT Resources | Requires dedicated IT respurces. Managing a typical portal alone for a medium-sized organization takes most of a senior technician's time. | No dedicated IT resourses required. User maintenance and portal configurations can be performed by a non-technical person. All system management is performed by the provider. |
Deployment and Security | Average of months to years to deploy a collaboration solution with dedicated staff. | Get started in weeks or days with shared environment, a few days more for a configured solution using your own data. |
Reliability and Maintenance | Lack of redundancy and bandwigth, poor administration, delay in upgrades - any of these can cause security and performace issues. Server crashing and interuptions cause delays and loss of productivity. | Updates performed in timely manner by trained experts. Quality of service is guaranteed by Service Level Agreement and 24x7 system monitoring. |