How Much is Downtime Costing Your Business?
Downtime can lead to lost revenue, reduced productivity, and frustrated clients. Network outages can be expensive, but how much could downtime actually cost your business?
Try the downtime calculator below to estimate the potential cost of an outage for your organization.
Estimate the Cost of an Outage
Calculating the Cost of Downtime
Many organizations underestimate the true cost of downtime. That's because outages have wide-ranging effects that it can be difficult to grasp just how much you could actually lose. This downtime calculator can help you visualize and estimate that value, help you estimate the potential cost for each hour your business is offline.
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Annual Revenue
On average, how much revenue do you make annually?
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Number of Impacted Employees
If your network were down, how many employees would be impacted?
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Cost Per Employee
What would the average fully burdened cost of an employee be per hour?
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Consider Lost Productivity and Time
Downtime not only hurts your business operations, but it can also significantly affect your team's output. That's because if they don't have the tools to be productive, it could reduce their morale or affect the customer service they provide. Worse, the longer it takes to recover, the more significant and widespread the impact it will have on your organization.
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Impact to Productivity
If there was an outage, how much of your team's day-to-day responsibilities could not be performed?
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Hours to Recover
In the event of an attack, how many hours of downtime do you believe you'd experience before recovery?
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Lost Hours
In the event of an attack, how many hours of downtime do you believe you'd experience?
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Consider Intangible Costs
Downtime doesn't just cost you money; it also hurts your company's reputation. It might sound drastic, but in reality, a bad experience is all it takes to lose potential repeat customers. That directly translates to lost sales, higher customer churn, and long-term damage to your brand, all because of a few hours of downtime.
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Potential Client Loss
What is your estimated client churn rate?
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The Real Cost of Downtime
Downtime is an expensive problem that has wide-ranging effects throughout your business. An outage lasting for a few hours can cost you millions in lost revenue, sales, and productivity down the line. Thankfully, we can help minimize outages for your organization and keep your systems running. Schedule a meeting with us today!
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Cost of Downtime
- Annual Revenue: $m
- Number of Impacted Employees:
- Cost Per Employee: $
- Impact to Productivity: %
- Hours to Recover: hrs
- Lost Hours: hrs
- Client Churn: %
What this estimate assumes
- Flat cost to recover from an outage, applied to every estimate: $11000
- Working hours in a year, used to turn annual revenue into revenue per hour: 2080
Reduce Downtime and Help Prevent Outages
Intelligent Technical Solutions not only helps you reduce downtime, but we can also help prevent it from happening by addressing the root causes, like:
- Data LossWe provide backup and disaster recovery services to help get your business back online as quickly as possible.
- Single Point of FailureWe add redundancy to reduce single points of failure in your existing infrastructure.
- Outdated SystemsWe take a proactive approach when it comes to downtime. That's why we help replace outdated systems and security features, as well as keep your apps current to prevent downtime in the future.
- CyberattacksWe offer advanced managed cybersecurity services that can help keep attacks at bay or resolve incidents when they happen.
- Device MisconfigurationWe can help you configure your apps and devices properly to prevent security gaps within your network, reducing the risk of cyberattacks.
Schedule a Meeting
Is your business struggling with downtime? We can assess your network for free, help identify possible causes of downtime, and recommend next steps.
Fill out the form so one of our experts can reach out and help you. We'll get in touch with you within 24 hours to go over any questions you might have.