A small rant...
After viewing the webinar on Analytics 360 BI, we thought it might be a good fit for a number of our customers. So we asked our friendly Progress sales rep for pricing... but I was rather taken aback from the quote of $20K to $50K per annum. Not a one time with maintenance, but per year.
While I'm fine with Progress charging whatever they want for a product, and I would expect that if we needed their assistance for set up to pay for the hours needed, this pricing model was quite a surprise.
Effectively, they are eliminating SMB's from sales, as virtually all of our customers would find this yearly amount to be way out of their budgets. Perhaps they don't care about that market.
Is this a hint of things to come as to pricing models, or is this a one-off that they want to reap cash flow from the Bravepoint purchase?
After viewing the webinar on Analytics 360 BI, we thought it might be a good fit for a number of our customers. So we asked our friendly Progress sales rep for pricing... but I was rather taken aback from the quote of $20K to $50K per annum. Not a one time with maintenance, but per year.
While I'm fine with Progress charging whatever they want for a product, and I would expect that if we needed their assistance for set up to pay for the hours needed, this pricing model was quite a surprise.
Effectively, they are eliminating SMB's from sales, as virtually all of our customers would find this yearly amount to be way out of their budgets. Perhaps they don't care about that market.
Is this a hint of things to come as to pricing models, or is this a one-off that they want to reap cash flow from the Bravepoint purchase?