EFFICIENCY Pricing

EFFICIENCY represents the lowest total cost of ownership by far in comparison to any other mid to high range CRM product. The difference is between 3 times to an incredible 20 times. This pricing structure does not reflect power of EFFICIENCY. Let us tell you why...

What is the Total Cost of Ownership?

In practical terms the total cost of ownership of a software system is calculated adding up the following cost and benefit components.

Why EFFICIENCY is implemented and operated at a much lower total cost of ownership?

The reasons for this phenomenon are very plain and simple:

1. EFFICIENCY was originally developed in Australia in 1985 and has been commercially available since 1988. The current software license fee is based on the Australian Dollar. This creates an immediate pricing benefit up to 3 times over American and European software due to currency exchange rates.

2. EFFICIENCY's original total business and client management concept is best compared to today's CRM structures and was at least 10 years ahead of its time. This probably makes EFFICIENCY the very first CRM system worldwide! It also adds another dimension to its power and functionality as it was completely fully developed long before any range of CRM products flooded the world market. The current versions only development costs are to meet and exceed technological demands; the contribution of the development costs to the price of software is considerably lower than the competitors.

3. EFFICIENCY's current licence fee is also based on its natural evolution over the years. Most competitor prices are based on the high return requirements expected from high investments as part of the recent "dot.com" hype and/or the high cost effects of their globalised marketing and distribution efforts.

4. An advanced form of software maintenance - CRED - has been with EFFICIENCY since day one. This form of user membership has created vast sources of highly qualified professional contributors from a user base of a wide range of EFFICIENCY applications. Over the years, most of their day-to-day operational requirements, enhancement requests and constructive criticisms have been included in EFFICIENCY's development research and enhancements. The result of this unique process is demonstrated in the softwares immense power, flexibility, completeness and functionality and the very low consultancy, implementation and customisation requirements, which are typically much more for American and European based CRM systems.

5. EFFICIENCY is a total business and client management system incorporating all Customer Relations Management (CRM) concepts. Unlike most CRM systems, it maintains and executes most of its own data and functions before feeding the processed information to existing financial and production systems. This hands-on and ready-to-operate configuration immediately lowers implementation and consultancy cost as well as the cost of changes and additional core systems license requirements for the future expansions.

6. EFFICIENCY's parameter driven programming and database objects, developed and refined over the years, make customisation and implementation changes very simple and speedy without any programming requirements only using the database and form painters.

Efficiency is a strategic investment for the whole corporation...
But unlike other assets that are consumed over time, the more it is used, the more valuable it becomes..