Solving a business problem requires more than just good technical sense. To really make a difference you need to consider the total cost of operation.

A well-conceived and constructed software solution needs to do more than solve the problem at hand. It must be forward thinking and consider the on-going cost of operation from code maintenance and technical operations perspectives, and function as a vehicle for the developer to learn more about the technology.

When the Hunny Team sets out to build a toolkit, it approaches the challenge with the present as well as the future in mind. We use a simple set of guidelines that keeps us focused on the kind of goals that ensure you get a lower total cost of operation. We think a toolkit should:

• Decrease product development time by up to 50%
• Be platform independent
• Be a tool for learning more about the programmatic subject
• Provide sufficient references to answer a developer’s questions
• Reduce typical operations costs (code maintenance)
• Reduce typical runtime costs (hardware, etc.)

Effective Product Implementation
Labor or “Soft costs” are the most expensive aspects for building a software product. According to Yourdon & Demarco, the typical software development project runs 20-40% over budget.

Top factors that contribute to cost overruns:

• Overly optimistic delivery estimations
• Poorly crafted user requirements
• Design changes after coding has begun
• The technology platform dictated to the development team

Hunny’s development tools address these issues by providing comprehensive documentation designed to make it very easy for developers to understand and apply our toolkits to messaging issues. Providing you with a pre-constructed development toolkit shortens delivery time and positively impacts your Return On Investment (ROI).

From an operations perspective, we offer tools that are optimized to save money downstream. It’s here that most of the unanticipated long-term cost overruns are incurred. Poor product implementation can lead to the need for more servers and or bandwidth to overcome problems at a rate much greater than the early optimistic estimates. The more hardware you throw at a problem, the more the long term costs rise. You will pay for support agreements, O/S maintenance, host space, accelerated enterprise management licensing, and personnel to support it. Therefore, the age-old statement that “hardware is cheap” really doesn’t make sense from a total cost of ownership perspective. When long-term costs rise unexpectedly, it takes longer to recover the build costs, or for the product to turn a profit.

The Bottom Line Summary – Controllable Expenses
& Profit Margin

If your company has experienced increased customer turnover in the past few years you know by now that margins are slim and the cost to replace a lost customer or capture a new one is constantly increasing. To remain competitive you must stay ahead of the your competitors while controlling your costs. Our toolkits make it simple to decrease the cost of building and maintaining messaging solutions from both a development and a runtime perspective.

ROI

Take a project where a team of developers is going to construct a SPAM filter from scratch and compare it with one where the Hunny’s MIME++ toolkit is used to build their product.