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Asset Management Costs

May 12, 2003 12:00 PM ET

Computerworld - The cost of launching an asset management program at a Fortune 1,000 company with 22,000 to 25,000 PCs typically involves the following expenses:

  • Personnel costs that can range from $300,000 to $700,000 for the first two years and from $225,000 to $500,000 for the next three to five years.

  • Tool costs and one-time licensing fees that can range from $300,000 to $1.4 million for the first two years.

  • Maintenance costs for a suite of tools, including auto discovery, repository and monitoring tools, that can range from $60,000 to $280,000 in the third, fourth and fifth years.

  • Implementation fees that can range from $150,000 to $2.8 million over the first three years of the program.

  • The cost of additional services needed to augment asset management programs, which can range from $500,000 to $1.5 million per year in each of the first two years, and from $200,000 to $600,000 in the third, fourth and fifth years.

Source: Cicala & Associates LLC, Hoboken, N.J.


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