Comparing the Total Cost of Ownership of SME On Premises Business Management Applications and SAP Business By Design

In this document, we analyze the lifetime cost of ownership for a typical on-premises SME business management system and compare it to the cost of an equivalent SAP Business ByDesign implementation.

We have used a mixture of different vendors' on-premises systems rather than any single vendor's product. Although there are many different business management software products available, which all differ in overall functionality, they all compete closely on price.