CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 August 2009
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ASCON Counts Real Cost of CAD Software Solution; What are we really paying for when buying low-cost MCAD?
Nowadays one can purchase CAD at low price, but in reality, instead of promised benefits, users get a lot of additional costs and limitations. Let’s try to understand what we really get for small amounts, which we can see in different ads:
reduced functionality (also and in basic areas) with using of old developments
It is impossible to develop really up-to-date, professional and powerful solution without making an investments, but when price for software is as low there are no need and resources for vendor to spend money on R&D;
additional costs for update and maintenance, as well as very high prices for training and support
When price for the solution not defray expenses for its development, vendors begin to compensate it with overrated prices for different services, which they put at user's disposal. Calculate all these extra-costs and you will get several thousand USD per year;
no support or maintenance
Small mistake in design of the product can turn out to be million USD losses at the stage of production or even worse sales. Without stable and reliable software such errors happens much more often and no vendor will be responsible for it;
time and territory limitations
All of this “special” offers for CAD systems have tight regional restrictions, some of them also will support customer with a time-limited, water-marked, non-commercial user version of their CAD software;
This and many others will face user who at a glance selects bargain. ASCON don't promise its customers MCAD software for a very low price with lots of limitations, but our KOMPAS solutions already includes maintenance and support, free trainings, modern, powerful and professional functionality for a reasonable money, as a good deal in terms of quality and value.
Contact ASCON to learn more at contact@ascon.net
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