Winning the LIMS Hosting Budget Battle: Comparing Cloud, SaaS, and On-Premises Costs
In today’s competitive lab environment, a LIMS is indispensable. A LIMS implementation is often a complex project that can very easily go awry if all pieces of the project are not properly budgeted and accounted for. That budget is often a very large number, which should cover everything involved in deploying a powerful software system. That includes the critical choice of hosting model. The hosting model should be decided upon and approved prior to selecting a LIMS, because making that decision later in the process could stall your project.
In this blog post, we’re going to discuss the budgeting considerations for on-premises, cloud (including private cloud), and software as a service (SaaS) hosting models, from the initial costs through the long-term cost of ownership.
