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When it pays for itself
One page holds both halves of the sum: what the current mess costs you every year, and what replacing it is likely to cost. The answer is a range of months, and it moves with assumptions you can see and change.
There is one number here that nobody can source honestly — the share of the problem a new system actually removes. We do not supply it. You set it, the answer is drawn at three other values of it as well, and the arithmetic is printed line by line so you can check every step.
Payback period
Enter your annual licence quote above and the payback period appears here. We will not guess it: there is no defensible public figure for what a vendor will charge you, and an invented one would make every number on this page fiction.
The problem, per year
AED 285,600
Your own figures: reconciliation hours plus rework.
Recovered per year
AED 142,800
The problem cost multiplied by your recovery share.
Year one, all in
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Licence, implementation, data migration and first-year support.
Renews every year after
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Licence and support. The implementation and migration do not repeat.
This calculates a payback period, not a business case. It counts hours already being paid for and work already being redone. It does not count the revenue you cannot bill because the data is late, the customer who left, or the two months of half-speed while people learn the new system — the first two make the case better and the third makes it worse.
Take the sum apart with us
The recovery share is the line worth arguing about, and it is not an argument to have alone. Send us what you put in and we will tell you which parts of the problem a system removes and which parts survive it.
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Payback Calculator
The recovery share is the argument
Send us what you put in and we will tell you which parts of the problem a system removes, which parts survive it, and what would have to change in the process for the rest.
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