AccessAnywhere will cut 80% of your current remote access operating expenses!

Many executives can relate to the frustration and inconvenience that comes from not being able to securely access company data and information when their not in the office. However,the real impact to your company can be measured in bottom-line cost and lost productivity.

Cisco Systems and the Yankee Group have published reports (Cisco Report, Yankee Report) that estimate TCO for VPN's to be $30 per user per month. More importantly, the Yankee Group has just completed a detailed study (approved by Check Point Software) that reported the total first year operations cost for 150 vpn users is $90,198.

That's a cost of $50.11 per VPN user per month! And that's just the cost to get connected.

AccessAnywhere with secure remote connectivity from anywhere would cost as little as $12.95 per user per month or 80% less than what Check Point admits your first year connection cost will be.

More importantly, with AccessAnywhere your company no longer needs to incur the cost of providing a dedicated corporate laptop, special software and help desk support to secure these remote connections.

Lost employee productivity costs are much harder to quantify but are certainly a contributing factor

Lost employee productivity costs related to the complexity of setting up and using a VPN include, but are not limited to the following:

• Employees who can't get remote access because their ISP's block IPSecVPN traffic.

• Employees spending time upgrading their VPN clients.

• Employees spending time on the phone with the help desk for VPN support when they can't get connected.

• Employees that have home PC's and want to work after hours on their own time, but can't.

• Employees that are occasional travelers or mobile workers but you can't afford to support them with laptops, VPN client software and help desk support.

• Employees who cannot connect back to their resources from behind customer, partner or hotel firewalls.

Making the AccessAnywhere business case

Bottom-line:  For every 50 employees using a VPN, you pay $3,000 per month ($36,000/year) more than you would by using AccessAnywhere.

What makes this overpayment worse is the fact that your paying more for less! Your VPN will not give your remote workers the flexibilty of access from anywhere, it won't protect your network by ensuring that remote users only get access to authorized applications and it won't simplify ease of use by delivering browser-based access.

To better satisfy business needs, many companies are seeking innovative solutions that support a wider variety of remote access environments while reducing total cost.

Browser-based remote access services like AccessAnywhere offer both cost and ease-of-use advantages. Web browsers are already present on nearly every computing device, public or private, large or small.

AccessAnywhere uses a browser and dynamically-downloaded code to avoid installing and configuring VPN client software on the remote worker's device. This approach facilitates remote access from anywhere and can significantly reduce per-user VPN administration costs. Savings are even greater for companies that eliminate corporate laptops by leveraging existing desktops for web-based remote access.

Managed services are attractive because they free up capital, reduce on-going operational costs and decrease the need for additional security expertise. In-house VPNs, on the other hand, require capital investment in customer premises equipment and lengthy set-up costs. These savings continue long-after installation because in-house administration is usually more expensive than the monthly managed service fees from AccessAnywhere.

AccessAnywhere can offer managed services at a lower cost by realizing economies of scale and offloading most administrative tasks.