Honolulu, Hawaii – (The Hosting News) – February 24, 2009 – Web hosting provider, PHASE 2 International, has released its newest tool for companies considering the move to SaaS, with its Savings Calculator, available free of charge for use by IT managers and small business owners.

The PHASE 2 Savings Calculator takes user-supplied information and calculates the 2-year cost of purchasing and maintaining software and systems in-house versus using PHASE 2 subscription services. Initial research using the tool shows that the typical data center achieves an average savings of 80% by using PHASE 2 subscription software instead of purchasing software and maintaining the software and systems to run it in-house.

Kevin Doherty, CEO of PHASE 2 noted, ”We have been working hard to educate our customers about the substantial savings that can be realized through the use of SaaS. Now we have quantified the savings with our online calculator, and we have made it freely available to the public. This tool makes it easy for decision-makers to analyze the savings for their own unique environments. A real-world scenario calculated the 2-year total cost of an on-premise customer relationship management system for 75 employees at $192,000. The 2-year subscription cost with Phase 2 is $72,000, resulting in a $120,000 or 63% savings. Analysis of other scenarios results in as much as 80% savings.”

The new PHASE 2 Subscription Software Savings Calculator makes it easy to take that analysis the next step, too. Users can – at their option – submit their calculations to PHASE 2 to get a firm quote from a PHASE 2 sales person within 24 hours.

Mr. Doherty added, ”This tool gives clients an easy way to pull together a customized cost-benefit analysis that helps them make a critical business decision.”

PHASE 2 International delivers affordable and scalable access to high-end business software applications via a Software as a Service – SaaS – model. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, and especially practical for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the hosted applications available through PHASE 2 currently include Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange (with support for Blackberry devices), Project Server, CRM, Office Communicator, and Team Foundation Server, for software developers, along with PHASE 2′s ShareMeeting and award-winning ShareCAD Pro. All of PHASE 2′s business applications are delivered across the web to enable on-demand access to corporate information whenever and wherever in the world the user happens to be. PHASE 2′s SaaS solutions provide cutting-edge security, scalability for future requirements, automatic data back-up and a reliable, state-of-the-art infrastructure that removes the burden and risks of hosting solutions internally.

To learn more about the solution, please visit: www.phase2.com/savings.

For more about PHASE 2, please visit: www.phase2.com.

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