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Model your 3-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction, administrative labor savings, and migration payback period in real time.

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LMS Migration Cost & 3-Year Savings Calculator

Estimate your organization's Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction by migrating from legacy or self-hosted systems to modern cloud infrastructure.

1,200 learners
1005,00010,00025,000+
$18,000 / yr
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20 hrs / mo

Time spent on user provisioning, plugin updates, server patching, backups, and error debugging.

$/hr
Estimated 3-Year Impact
+$62,210
Projected net savings over 36 months
Annual Operational Savings:$22,850 / yr
Admin Hours Reclaimed:180 hrs / yr
Estimated Migration Budget:~$6,340
Projected ROI Payback:3.3 months
3-Year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Status Quo Stack:$108,000
Modernized Cloud Stack:$45,790
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How This LMS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Model Works

Many organizations calculate LMS costs solely by comparing software license fees. However, research across enterprise learning operations indicates that unmanaged infrastructure, recurring database tuning, emergency plugin repairs, and manual administrative overhead account for 45% to 65% of true annual platform costs.

Status Quo Operational Overhead

  • • Dedicated cloud VPS, object storage, and CDN egress bills.
  • • Internal IT staff spent patching Linux kernels, PHP, and MariaDB.
  • • High downtime risk during peak exam or compliance deadlines.
  • • Fragile third-party plugins that break during core upgrades.

Modernized Cloud Stack Benefits

  • • Turnkey 99.9% uptime SLA with vendor-managed security.
  • • 75% reduction in internal IT maintenance hours.
  • • Automated SCORM 1.2/2004 and xAPI telemetry out-of-the-box.
  • • Built-in Single Sign-On (SSO) and HRIS user synchronizations.

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