Clearview

Financial ramifications of system downtime
This tool can help you to quantify the costs that result from unplanned downtime and a lack of contingency. Fill in the entries below. NOTE: If you wish to calculate your cost on a per transaction basis only DO NOT select an industry or enter an annual revenue in either box below.

What is the annual revenue of your company? $
OR
Which industry is your company in?

Operations

What are your hours of operation?
Hours per day
Days per week
Weeks per year
Result: Operations (in hours/year)

Costs per Hour of Downtime

User Productivity Costs resulting from Users not being able to access your system:
	How many Users (employees/contracters/temps) are typically active?
	Percent of Users that cannot be immediately diverted to equally productive tasks?
	Average annual salary of Users (include benefits)
	Average hourly rate per user lost during an outage (2000 hour/work year)
	*Cost/User hour lost during outage (users Avg hourly rate)**

Revenue or Transaction Impact (ONLY select EITHER method A or B for calculating revenue or transaction impact)

A) Revenue per hour
$	How much revenue per hour is dependent on this application during operations?
B) Transactions per peak hour
	How many transactions per hour occur during peak operations?
$	What is the revenue or value of each transaction?
$	Revenue or Value during peak operating hour

IT Productivity

What does it cost to resolve a problem?
	How many hours of IT staff and management time is spent repairing, resolving and explaining an outage?
$	Average annual salary of IT Staff and Management (include benefits)
$	Average hourly rate
$	Cost of business resumption
Fees/Penelties/other charges Service Level Agreement, Regulatory and/or other penalties
	What is the cost of fees/penalties/other charged incurred for one hour of downtime during peak operations?

$	Total hourly cost of unplanned downtime

Other Costs to Consider

Lost Future Revenue
- Customers may seek alternatives
- Customers may add other vendors for assurance of services
- Media exposure inhibits attractivenss to new clients.

Market Impact
- Publicized outages can affect market valuation and reputation.

Unplanned Downtime Experienced

Unplanned downtime is a reality. Clearview can minimize the risk utilizing its state-of-the art data center security and environmental hardening. Clearview continuiously invests in the latest, most reliable hardware. Note the reduced cost of downtime as you increase the availability of the system.

Operating Hours/Year
Cost per Hour of Downtime
How many hours of downtime did you have last year ?
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Annual Cost of Downtime relative to Server Uptime
	Uptime	Downtime in one yr*	Annual Cost of Unplanned Downtime
Fault Tolerant Server	%	0 mins	$0
The best HA server	%	0 mins	$0
Most HA servers	%	0 mins	$0
Conventional	%	0 mins	$0
Your Results	0%	0 mins	$0