*This comprehensive ROI calculator uses industry best practices with benchmark data from trusted industry sources and real-world results from BoxTone customers. Gartner studies show typical annualized BlackBerry Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of $1,600 to $2,400 per user per year with 4 to 6 mobile issues per user per year. Assuming three year amortization, this TCO calculation includes cost of software, hardware, maintenance for devices and servers (BES, SQL, fraction of mail), CALs, T-Support, data plans, internal support and operations staff (help desk, messaging team, operations, engineering), plus provisioning, user training and administration but does not include voice plans. Ipsos-Reid identifies an average annual BlackBerry productivity ROI gain of $14,000 to $20,000 per user per year with TCO of $1,100 to $1,600 per user per year.
†The Help Desk Institute provides benchmark data for typical incident support costs of level 1 at $25, level 2 at $100 and level 3 at $275. Industry surveys show typical BlackBerry mean time to repair of 30-45 minutes (with provisioning issues frequently consuming 60-90 minutes) and with the majority of issues escalated from Level 1 to level 2, Level 3 and/or BES Admin at higher cost.