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(Expensive) shelfware
S helfware, or unused software, is said to cost companies roughly $30 billion per year in the U.S. alone, according to a 2016 study. The average desktop computer contains roughly $259 per year in wasted software. In a time of shrinking margins and increased competition, every dollar counts. Do you have a gazillion underused software programs languishing on computers across your firm? If you do, you’re certainly not alone.
Mark Little GUEST SPEAKER
manage their day-to-day businesses. Most of them were using five to 10 different programs – some purchased, some custom developed – simply to do things such as track projects, fill out timesheets, generate reports, manage documents, and more. For instance, our first client (and the inspiration behind ProjectBoss), BDG Architects of Tampa, “Most software contracts are easy to sign but difficult to get out of. Is your firm paying for unused seats, licenses, overages, upgrades, and unused features? You’re not alone.”
Most software contracts are easy to sign but difficult to get out of. Is your firm paying for unused seats, licenses, overages, upgrades, and unused features? You’re not alone. According to the study, companies with fewer than 2,000 employees were the most wasteful, clocking in at a waste rate of 41 percent. A big reason why companies purchase software they don’t need is that the company’s leadership is not on the same page. There’s no communication at the top. One of our primary goals when creating ProjectBoss was to eliminate the need for firms to use, and pay a lot of money for, multiple software programs to solve their project and business management needs. We took a hard look at what software programs were being used by firms to
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THE ZWEIG LETTER September 24, 2018, ISSUE 1265
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