Return On Investment

Our CSV Manager component can save you money and time. A project delivered on time and with zero bugs is, of course, priceless, but here we show you how much you save when it comes to handling CSV format files.

Example Scenario

With our Single Developer License, you invest $170.00 and save on average $382.50. And you could save up to $1105.00...

Let's assume that you want to read product data from an Excel spreadsheet and display it on a website. You're doing it this way because your customer already has a product spreadsheet and you want to avoid building an online product manager. One developer has been assigned to the project and it's a fixed cost project, so every extra day counts.

If your developer codes the CSV file handling from scratch, you'll need to account for the following table of costs. Developer time is charged at $50 dollars per hour which includes all ancillary employment costs and represents a heuristic median value over a range of developer types from high-level consultant to outsourced coder. We'll assume that the some of these costs may or may not happen, and thus calculate the final cost based on their probabilities.

Thus you have an expected cost of $552.50, and a worst case scenario of $1275.00 and 25.5 developer hours lost. Notice that even though the actual coding element takes only 3 hours, all the additional and sometimes overlooked costs can quickly accumulate. For meetings we assume total time taken over all participants. And if your customer data is corrupted, you could lose an unlimited amount of time sorting out the mess.

The previous table just covers the case of a single developer in a small team. If you need to use the component across teams in your organization, you face the following additional costs.

In this case you have an expected cost of $2200.00, and a worst case scenario of $7075.00 and 116 developer hours lost. You'll definitely need that documentation now that you're supporting other teams, not to mention all the bugs they'll find and demand that you fix. Which will leads to lots of meetings. And imagine the horror when your quick-fix starts destroying data in far flung departments and annoying all those important VPs...

With our Business License, you invest $970.00 and save on average $1230.00 and could save up to $6105.00.

The foregoing analysis is of course subject to many variables and is not intended to be a replacement for your own assessment. However we believe it does provide a general case for estimating the savings that can be achieved when using our CSV Manager component.