Professional Custom Accounting papers: Design a spreadsheet that shows cost comparisons of the vendors’ licensing options and the pay-per-use option using the data estimates.
Research the costs of a pay-per-use plan vs. a per user licensing plan based on the number of seats or participants for Microsoft’s LiveMeeting and Cisco’s WebEx. Or evaluate two other pieces of web-based meeting software. Precise cost comparisons are difficult because there are so many variables, but a general cost analysis between LiveMeeting and WebEx or other software is feasible.
Design a spreadsheet that shows cost comparisons of the vendors’ licensing options and the pay-per-use option using the data estimates.
Identify other criteria that should be taken into account when making such a decision (for example, vendor support or the ability to integrate with Outlook).
Based on your analysis, make a fully documented recommendation to the owners.