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- Phone +91-9881124454
Plans - Features
Software as a Service (SaaS) Subscription
Software availability has moved on from the earlier One-time perpetual license approach to annual subscription for several good reasons.
- 1. Cost effective: No up-front costs, pay only for what you use.
- 2. Time management: Save money and time, using the subscription model.
- 3. Scalability & Accessibility: Avail anywhere and anytime.
- 4. Guaranteed Service: Pay and demand service.
- 5. Security Issues: Responsibiity of the service provider.
- 6. Free trials: Subscribe only when fully satisfied.
Perpetual
This a give-and-take relationship that requires ongoing commitment from both Software creater and user. Perpetual licensing of software is not desirable to web applications for the reasons listed below.
Advantages
- 1. Make only a onte-time payment and use it forever. No-hidden costs.
- 2. May cost less only if no upgrades or security features desired. No reliance on cloud-service provider.
Disadvantages
- 1. Perpetual licenses often become obsolete within a few years, and users are going to need to repurchase after bug fixes are no longer available.
- 2. There’s no cloud access – everything you own is on one local computer (like windows tailored software). This Elab package is a web application - access from anywhere.
- 3. Perpetual licenses cost more up-front, less over time, and still become obsolete in shorter duration of time due to changes in operating systems and security threats.
- 4. Due to rapid changes in security, non-updated versions are thecbiggest security risks to data and organizations.
- 5.With ongoing subscriptions, we can collect a wealth of data about how your users interact with our software, so we can anticipate problems and adapt new designs for the convenience of users. With perpetual, this may happen at high cost due to tailored customizations.
Perpetual vs. Subscription Comparison
| # | Perpetual | Subscription |
|---|---|---|
| Attribute | Ownership | Experience |
| Support | Separate Contract | Included |
| Payment | All Up Front (CAPEX) | Monthly/Annual/Multi-year |
| Term Options | Bug-fixes Only | Bug fixes, Support and Upgrades |
| Tax Benefit | Depreciated | Entire Cost |
| Renewal/Change Effort | High | Low |
| Feature Requests | On payment and high | Community based requests free |
The verdict: Perpetual vs. Subscription licensing
When cloud services were not evolved, perpetual, single machine, one-time... was the best model. Many legacy approaches have become defunct whether it is hardware, software or service. Perpetual license may still be an option for certain software especially instrument operation, while most others do not fit into this criteria, are very costly to acquire. The advantage of choosing the Meissa subscription model is to have all the best-features suggested by a community of users, upgrades, top-quality maintenance are at no additional cost.
Alternatives
Long-term licensing
It is possible to subscribe for a block of years in which an encrypted copy will be installed on site or as per plans below that includes annual maintenance.
Hybrid licensing
The hybrid hosting model makes you choose the cloud server and plan-type (paid by user) and hold complete access to the server. Meissa merely installs and runs the encrypted application for you. You are in full control of your server. However, you have the responsibility to manage your server, of course, we will give you guidence.
Feature Comparison
| # | Feature | Basic 1 | Premium 2 | I + Premium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2 | User management | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 3 | Task reminders | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 4 | Group users | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 5 | Research projects | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| 6 | Themes | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| 7 | Protocols | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| 8 | Procedures | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| 9 | Guest users | No | Yes | Yes |
| 10 | Automated inventory tracking | No | Yes | Yes |
| 11 | Automated sample tracking | No | Yes | Yes |
| 12 | Automated reagent tracking | No | Yes | Yes |
| 13 | Logbooks | No | Yes | Yes |
| 14 | IAEC projects | No | No 3 | Yes |
| 15 | IAEC Billing | No | No 3 | Yes |
| 16 | IAEC Notebook | No | No 3 | Yes |
Brief Conditions
Basic
Group management: Normal group management includes assignment/removal of project/notebook to group members, disable group members.
Premium - Paid (Send Email)
Group management: Normal group management includes assignment/removal of project/notebook to group members, disable group members.
Price
Note:- 1. Price are excluding local taxes and applicable within territory of India and to be paid in Indian Rupee.
- 2. For non-Indian territories, please send an email mentioned below.
- 3. Plans do not include customizations. Features will be added based on user feedback and priority.
- 4. The price is for annual subscription basis per research group.
- 5. The price for On-Campus or Hybdrid-Hosting are different. Please send an Email mentioned below.
- 6. Meissa Softwares does not believe in free usage or plans.
Free Trial - 30 days
Try, explore, feel the features for free, just drop a mail. Hand holding for set-up is available.
Money-back Guarantee
Use it, if not satisfied cancel within 60 days for full refund (not applicable to On-Campus or Hybrid-Hosting plans).
Absolutely, no questions asked.