IE9 save money for business?

IE9 help large enterprises to save several million dollars in three years, so malware prevention and better, more security features and increase user productivity.

This conclusion was drawn from a study by Forrester. Let's consider the figures from market research firm offer.

9 Internet Explorer has some features more advantages compared to the Vietnamese version of Microsoft's older browsers, such as: speed, customizable interface, support for HTML5, the ability to "sticky" sites on the taskbar case of Windows 7 for quick access.

But IE9 can save money for your business? If so, how much and for how long?

Research firm Forrester, in conjunction with Microsoft, posed these questions to the six companies operating in sectors such as government, financial services and technology to assess the financial impact of the switch IE9 use.

Forrester selected data used to create a business assumed large with a total of 60,000 employees and 50,000 computer users switch browsers IE9 in 40 localities.

The key point in the study by Forrester is IE9 can bring return on invested capital (ROI) over time is extremely impressive. Company Forrester's assumptions can save up to 3.3 million within three years, and even break even after just 15 months.

So this $ 3.3 million from?

First to mention the cost. It is clear that a business wants to move to IE9 not simply inform the entire staff IE9 download and use.

Forrester found that there are four kinds of switching costs to IE9: labor cost performance (summary application, evaluation and testing), training within the enterprise, increase technical assistance first time, and eventually upgrade the software .

Total overall costs for the company after three years of Forrester assumes approximately $ 1,680,960, which is largely technical support for end users inexperienced.

Labor costs consume $ 131,300 of the company's internal training and cost $ 19,500. When the software upgrade, a number of applications in the enterprise will not be compatible with IE9 and so will have to upgrade to new versions, but Forrester does not calculate these expenses for specific organization without any of the interviewed reported such a situation. After 15 months of payments stop and the company even had to balance the cost of investing IE9. And that's when IE9 started to bring profits back to the enterprise.

Forrester calculated, after many interviews with six companies, malware prevention and safety information to improve play an important role in the cost of IE9.

"Most of the respondents believe that Internet Explorer 9 will reduce the number of attacks by malware that their organizations have to deal regularly," vice president of Forrester Research and author Bob Cormier wrote.

"Malware entering enterprise networks via all paths, from email, instant message, to the applications installed by users themselves. The organizations participating in the interview that the news staff , technical support staff, and users will be less prone to malware threats when using Internet Explorer IE8 or 9 compared to the older version. "

Forrester estimates that companies assume their will save $ 5,029,959 over three years for the cost of anti-malware and other IT grants, technical assistance and for the user.

Less expenses $ 1,680,960, after three years of business to save USD 3.3 million net.

In addition, there are a number of benefits not included in IE9 bring savings, such as increased user productivity through the processing site, response time, and refresh the screen faster. In addition, the ability to web pages to the task bar also access business applications easier and faster.

Support for HTML5 also been reported to reduce the cost of writing new applications for developers.

With experience, you believe that IE9 will save money for your company in a long time?