We asked ourselves the question, “Is a cloud-based, turnkey intranet worth it?” We did our research and compiled a list ROI that’s broken down into savings and returns.
Savings
>$400k per year for a 500 person company. Got 1000 employees? Double these numbers.
1 Year To Roll-out
- Average development time for a custom intranet is 17 months.1
- This development time requires 3-6 staff of consultants at ~$100k each.1
For a well designed, turnkey, SaaS intranet the roll-out requires less than 1 month.
>$20k In Direct Costs
- SharePoint = $21k license + $16k in hardware for onsite deployment.5
- Jive costs $12 per user per month + $16k in hardware for onsite deployment.
A cloud-based intranet has low software and zero hardware costs.
3 IT Support Staff
3 full-time equivalent maintenance and support staff at $100k each. A well-designed, cloud-based, turnkey intranet uses zero IT support staff or salary.
Returns
>$3.3M for a $15M company.
28% Employee Engagement Boost
Improved communications is strongly tied to improved employee engagement.4
22% Profit Boost
- 22% increase in profits
- 10% lift in customer satisfaction.3
A 21% Productivity Boost
- 21% increase productivity.3
- 65% decline in employee turnover.3
- 37% decline in absenteeism.3
Quality & Safety
- 41% fewer quality issues.3
- 48% fewer safety incidents.3
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Bibliogrpahy
- http://www.nngroup.com/articles/intranet-design/
- http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/sharepoint-deployments-increase-despite-rising-costs-staff-shortages-018038.php
- http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/163130/employee-engagement-drives-growth.aspx
- http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0813/ijsrp-p2059.pdf
- Sharepoint costs: http://www.ostermanresearch.com/whitepapers/orwp_0198.pdf