The Opportunity Calculator

Welcome

Time is money. Nowhere is this more true than in managed services, where every minute a technician spends hunting for documentation or trying to decipher a network setup, is a minute of profit lost.

How much money could you save with improved network processes? Use the Opportunity Calculator to find out. You’ll see just how much money you could save by:

Drastically improving the speed and accuracy of your client assessments
Automatically mapping, documenting, and doing inventory on client networks
Slashing your network troubleshooting time
Automatically documenting and backing up infrastructure configs
And more

Let’s get started!

Your Business

Number of:
Full-time technicians you have:
Working hours per year
Managed services clients you have:
Prospects you quote each month:
New clients you bring on each month:
Network infrastructure-related issues per client per month:
Average hourly rate for your technicians:	$

Quoting

Cost to assess and quote new prospects

	Your Current Setup	Using Auvik	Savings with Auvik	% Change
Number of hours per prospect to:
Identify prospect requirements		3
Complete network assessment research		5
Prepare & present network assessment & recommendations		4
Prepare & present quote		2
Total number of hours to quote a new prospect
Total cost to quote a new prospect
Total monthly cost of quoting

Onboarding

Cost to onboard a new client

	Your Current Setup	Using Auvik	Savings with Auvik	% Change
Number of hours per new client to:
Gain initial access to client network		1
Identify & access devices		1
Document access information		0
Complete initial network research & assessment		5
Prepare & present initial network assessment & recommendations		5
Total number of hours to onboard a new client
Total cost to onboard a new client
Total monthly cost of client onboarding

Troubleshooting

Cost to solve network infrastructure issues

Issues involving routers, switches, firewalls, Wi-Fi controllers, load balancers, and packet processors

	Your Current Setup	Using Auvik	Savings with Auvik	% Change
Number of hours per issue to:
Access client network		0.1
Identify cause of the issue		0.25
Resolve the issue		0.5
Communicate with client		0.1
Report to client		0.1
Total number of support hours per issue
Total number of support hours per month
Total monthly cost of troubleshooting

Documentation

A. Cost to maintain client documentation

	Your Current Setup	Using Auvik	Savings with Auvik	% Change
Number of hours per month per client to update:
Network maps		0
Network inventories		0
Network configuration documentation		0
Network configuration backup		0
Total number of hours to update network documentation per client per month
Total monthly cost of updating client network documentation

B. Cost of bad or missing documentation

	Your Current Setup		Savings with Auvik
Number of working hours per month
Time wasted due to bad documentation^*	%
Number of working hours wasted per month
Total monthly cost of bad documentation

* Experts peg time wasted due to bad documentation at a hefty 20 – 30% of time worked. We’ve started with a conservative 5% but feel free to change the number according to what you think is right for your business.

ROI Summary

Increased efficiency

Savings in:
Quoting
Onboarding
Troubleshooting
Network documentation