ROI (Return On Investment) Calculator
   Fill in the fields below to see how much you may prospectively save using ActivatorMail.

  Direct Costs of Email
Company Size Enter total number of employees using email.
Operational Resources Enter number of employees supporting email protection. Calculated at an average 25% time allocation for a $100,000 IT resource (burdened cost).
Other Direct Costs (Annually) (e.g. messaging bandwidth and storage costs associated with email protection).
Hardware and Software for email Protection Calculated at $10 per employee per year.
Total, Direct Costs  
  Productivity Costs of Email
Average Number of email Messages Per User Per Day Enter number of email messages received per user per day.
Percentage of email that is Spam On average, 50-80% of company messages are spam.
Average Hourly Wage of Employees Enter average hourly wage of employees. $24 per hour average wage is about $50,000 per year.
Spam emails Per Day  
Hours Spent Handling Spam (Annually)  
Other Productivity Costs (Annually) (e.g. for virus outbreaks leading to data loss, email communication interruptions, and help desk support time to deal with spam and viruses). ICSA Labs says the average virus outbreaks cost corporations $10,000, but in 2003 averaged as high as $100,000, per incident. view article..
Total, Productivity Costs  
TOTAL COSTS (Direct + Productivity) (Other indirect costs can arise from breaches of confidentiality, legal liability, and harm to a company's reputation.)
   Estimated Savings When Using ActivatorMail
ActivatorMail Solution Costs This cost will vary depending on the number of unique email users protected and the range of services selected Per Month
    Per Year
Savings with ActivatorMail Estimated savings if your organization utilizes ActivatorMail anti-spam and anti-virus services today. Per Month
    Per Year
ROI Return On Investment in ActivatorMail  
  
    Important Reports to Consider:

  • " In an average company with 5,000 E-mail users, implementing an anti-spam system results in an annual savings of $783,000 and reduces the amount of time spent on E-mail per user by 50%. Of course, anti-spam vendors have been saying as much for years." IDC Research


  • "By 2005, some 50 percent of business email accounts will be hosted by service providers. The reason is simple: Hosting lets someone else worry about spam, viruses, legal compliance, storage, and security patches while you focus on your company's business." IDC Research


  • "This year the cost of receiving, storing, and handling spam will cost the average corporation $49 per mailbox in 2003, for a total of $20.5 billion worldwide. And the portion of email that is spam is expected to double by 2007." Radicati Group


  • "More companies suffered extensive virus infections in 2003 than in the previous year and spent on average almost $100,000 to clean up each attack, according to new research." CNet News


  • "The first quarter of 2004 was the most economically damaging quarter ever for digital risk... caused between $3.4-billion and $4.1-billion (U.S.) in damage... The NetSky email worm family bested the email worm Bagle family by accounting for more than 70.5 per cent of all confirmed virus occurrences.

    The volume of spam sent out the first quarter of 2004 exceeded 1.6 trillion unsolicited messages, overtaking the 1.5 trillion sent throughout 2003. The company says its estimates the economic damage from spam to lie between $58-billion and $71-billion worldwide for Q1 2004." mi2g London Intelligence Unit


  • "Last year, spam cost businesses an average of $874 per employee in lost productivity, according to Nucleus Research Inc. in Wellesley, Mass. " Nucleas Research Inc.


  • "...27 percent of Fortune 500 companies have defended themselves against claims of sexual harassment stemming from inappropriate e-mail or Internet use, according to the ePolicy Institute... Chevron had to pay female employees $2.2 million to settle a sexual-harass-ment lawsuit stemming from inappropriate e-mail sent by male employees."

    "In 2003, 22 percent of employers reported they had terminated an employee for violating e-mail rules, according to a 2003 e-mail survey from American Management Association, the ePolicy Institute.." EPolicy Institute and American Management Association


 
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