Welcome to the IBM Smarter Collaboration TCO Calculator based on the Liberate-Migrate-Virtualize cost reduction strategy. This calculator offers a 5 year TCO view of your IT spending and how you can save money around Software license, Hardware, and Operational costs with an annual and cumulative comparison of as-is and future (proposed) situations. Our objective is to provide you with a quick and easy estimate of potential savings and does not substitute for a full TCO/ROI analysis. It is based on a user segmentation model and desktop refresh cycle.
  • Liberate: Offers an alternate procurement strategy for Microsoft products through Project Liberate
  • Migrate: Offers a variety of options through IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) including migrating from Microsoft collaboration to IBM Lotus software, from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony, Windows dependent application migration, Moving from Windows to Linux, as well as the TCO gains when you upgrade to the latest Domino 8.5.
  • Virtualize: Offers choices around offering virtual windows/linux desktops to segments of users with the open virtual client
Appliance and SaaS options, productivity savings around travel/collaboration, and related business spending such as reducing long distance telephone costs, are not considered in this version of the calculator.
Explore this Smarter Collaboration cost optimization strategy .
Between 250 and 1 Million users
Do you currently have an MS EA? 3 Year Microsoft Enterprise Agreements
 
Agreement Type   
Software Assurance   
  
years
Currency
Conversion Conversion for 1 USD.
% Uses complex Office features; usually < 10%
Requires Microsoft Windows OS. Max 100
        %    %    % Need 12/6/3 months to migrate
      % Have to do this anyway since it is an older version
% Need IE browser, VB/.Net applications, etc.
% Enter a value between 20-100%
Email Software Product
  Product Version
% Can use a virtualized desktop
  % Thin hardware clients costs less
  % Netbooks cost less than desktops/laptops
% Netbooks users will run on Linux


Note: This calculator makes assumptions around the variety of operational cost elements, storage costs, number of virtual clients that can be supported by a given hardware server configuration, power consumption, cost of power per unit, related training for end users, administrators, and support personnel, as well as the price of desktop/netbook/thin hardware clients. Look for details in the Assumptions section below. The virtual desktop solution considered is VERDE from Virtual Bridges running on Canonical/Ubuntu Linux operating system.