A: Legacy desktop software requires a high upfront license cost, plus fees for extra support and maintenance, software updates, disaster recovery, security, and intrusion detection, additional IT support, and any analytics or reporting add-ons. Also, any of your physical locations would need to purchase servers and other hardware to run the legacy software. Since servers become obsolete within 3-5 years, your office would regularly need to invest in new hardware to keep up. With a cloud solution like Denticon or Apteryx XVWeb, most of the costs listed above are eliminated, and related services are combined all in one place. These all-in-one cloud solutions can lower your IT burden and costs while boosting your practice’s efficiency and security.
Are you wondering how to save your dental practice money? Here are some other costs and ways to save money.
Consider moving your dental practice to the cloud.
How does moving your dental practice to the cloud save you money exactly?
There are several things that add up to significant cost savings versus antiquated on-premise dental practice management solutions, for example, legacy desktop software requires:
- High upfront license cost
- Fees for extra support and maintenance
- Fees for software updates
- Fees for disaster recovery, security, and intrusion detection
- Additional, expensive IT support
- Costs for any analytics or reporting add-ons
- Requiring the purchase of servers and other hardware to run the non-cloud software
Since servers become obsolete within 3 to 5 years, your dental office would regularly need to invest more and more money in new hardware in order to keep up.
With a cloud dental solution like Denticon or Apteryx XVWeb, most of the costs and fees listed above are eliminated, and third-party services and add-ons are combined into one all-inclusive management system.
These all-in-one cloud solutions can lower your IT burden and hardware costs while boosting your practice’s efficiency and security.
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