We’ve all seen them on the television: those wonderful “Introductory offers”. They trumpet the deal: “Get your first month’s usage for just $9.99.” Then you strain to read the small print at the bottom of the screen that talks about how much the price will jump up after the first month, or how astronomical the interest rate will be if you fail to pay off what you bought.

These kinds of gambits are a sad part of modern life, but they should be a huge red flag when considering Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) software. The successful execution of your project is at stake, so this is no time for “looks too good to be true” offers.

Let’s review the three key areas you should consider for AWP software pricing:

1. AWP Software Licenses

AWP is a collaborative exercise. It is intended to involve a vast array of people. That’s the only way it can be successful on a project. So if you are being offered AWP software on a “per seat” basis, you are immediately going to run into a problem. The bean counters will tell you to use it with as few licenses as possible, but the execution team will be crying out for more. Every time you bring in a new stakeholder, you have to agonize over whether they are “worth” the cost of a seat. And you never have pricing certainty, just seeing the costs creep up month by month.

With O3, when you sign on for a project you get unlimited user licenses. We WANT you to get everyone on board, so each person or company can play their part in making AWP successful for your project.

2. AWP Software Services

A consistent source of buried costs, and another area that can spiral out of control if you aren’t careful. “We can get you started in ten minutes”. “Just press this magic red button and the packages start to build themselves”. Sounds great, but it is fundamentally wrong. At first, you are offered help and support. Then you realize that this help and support is a crutch that you can’t get away from. Your calendar fills up with progress meetings, and you find yourself endlessly defending your ‘bad data’, until you look back and see that the vendor is insisting on three of their people being based on your project for the first year or more. The cost is absurd.

A consistent source of buried costs, and another area that can spiral out of control if you aren’t careful. “We can get you started in ten minutes”. “Just press this magic red button and the packages start to build themselves”. Sounds great, but it is fundamentally wrong. At first, you are offered help and support. Then you realize that this help and support is a crutch that you can’t get away from. Your calendar fills up with progress meetings, and you find yourself endlessly defending your ‘bad data’, until you look back and see that the vendor is insisting on three of their people being based on your project for the first year or more. The cost is absurd.

3. Scalability

There is a lot of talk in AWP circles about scalability, most often from a technical and process perspective. But it is also critical from a commercial perspective. The price of software to support AWP cannot be allowed to overwhelm the project budget, otherwise the value proposition becomes a fiction.

With O3, our software cost is scaled to the size of the project, which allows us to show seven years of proven rollout experience on projects of all sizes, from small portfolio projects to the world’s largest new-builds.

Don’t fall for the “introductory offer”. Rely on the only proven software on the market.

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