In development · FDE Business Track, course 2 of 5

The Network TCO Calculator

What the fix costs to own over the next few years.

4
lessons
1
module
Alpha
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This course is still being written. 4 lessons are drafted so far. The outline below is what it covers. You cannot buy it yet, and nothing on this page opens it.

Learning objectives

What you will be able to do

  • Sort out what TCO really counts, and what a vendor slide usually counts instead.
  • Cost out doing nothing first, so the comparison has two real sides.
  • Include your own costs and the work the customer will do.

What you leave with

Why choose this course?

  1. A model with two sides

    Doing nothing has a cost, and the model says what it is. The comparison is between two real options, not against zero.

  2. Vendor math, counted straight

    Services, migration, training, and the staff time your solution eats all appear in the total.

  3. A graded TCO model

    You build it, and the lab checks the total against both sides of the comparison, not just the number you like better.

Course content

Learning roadmap

4 lessons · 1 module

This is the outline as it stands today. Lessons get added and moved while a course is being written, so it will change.

  1. FDE Business Track 2. Total Cost of Ownership4 lessons

    The CFO believes the cost of the problem and now wants your number. There are eight buckets, and most of the one-time cost is the customer's own hours. A three column comparison gives doing nothing its real price. The capstone turns the one forecast you cannot source into a threshold anybody can judge.

    • What the Subscription Price Leaves Out
    • The Status Quo Is Not Free
    • Accounting for Your Own Costs
    • How Little Would Be Enough

From inside the course

Lesson 2 · The Status Quo Is Not Freeworked example
OptionSolution costResidual problemFive year total
Status quo$150,000$1,440,000$1,590,000
Incumbent upgrade$726,125$936,000$1,662,125
Proposal$699,600$576,000$1,275,600
This lesson costs three options for a made-up credit union over five years. The incumbent upgrade comes out more expensive than doing nothing, and the proposal comes out cheapest.

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