Your return on investement
During a recent trail of qEnterprise our goal was to determine the ROI (Return On Investment) period. The results speak for themselves.| Activity | Time saving person/day | Cost saving person/year |
|---|---|---|
| Email review | 30 mins saved. | €6050 |
| Call & meeting preparation | 3 x 8 minutes saved | €4840 |
| Totals | 54 minutes | €10890 |
| Total saving for 50 employees | €544500 | |
| ROI | 4.04 days | |
Notes to table: 220 working days per year, €55 per hour loaded cost per employee, 50 users. qEnterprise cost of €10,000.
Email review
On average, employees spent over 1 hour reviewing incoming emails. Many of these emails were not relevant to the recipient, but nevertheless would need to be read in order to determine their relevance. The emails would then need to be filed so as not to clutter the recipients inbox.
With qEnterprise bookmarks and alerts, the employee is able to subscribe only to relevant communications. Furthermore, due to the blog driven architecture of qEnterprise, no filing is required and projects and threads can easily be found without error-prone search of email folders.
Call and meeting preparation
On average, each employee had around 3 meetings or telephone calls per day where some preparation was required. The preparation involved routine checking of emails for the latest status, finding and reviewing documents, and in many cases communicating with other employees to check if they had the latest information.
Since qEnterprise keeps all project information, including documents, in one consistent and shared blog, the complete and up to date information is displayed in just one click. Furthermore, the web shared blog is guaranteed to offer the same information to all - project members are fully synchronized.
Client background
The client is a hardware and software design company with around 500 staff. qEnterprise was used in day-to-day work with around 50 employees. The employees were in Sales, Engineering, Project Management, Customer Support and Admin.