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Web Services Finance: Budget Assumptions
The following budget – originally presented in an appendix – is reflective of General Products' Web services finance assumptions. The budget describes the company's Web services project with and without Actional SOAPstation:
| Salary |
| Annual Burdened Salary of Developer |
$125,000 |
| Annual Burdened Salary of Service/Network Administrator |
$90,000 |
| Services |
| # of Services developer |
4 |
| Time in Developer days to create services |
20 |
| Time to Developer days to integrate each service with security code |
5 |
| Time in Developer days to build reporting into each service |
5 |
| Time in Developer days to build billing integration into each service |
1 |
| # of Services Upgraded (%) |
50% |
| Time in Developer days to upgrade services |
10 |
| Avg Number of Consumers per service |
10 |
| % of consumers requiring custom provisioning |
25% |
| Management |
| Maximum # of Services monitored per administrator |
10 |
| Days to rollout service upgrades per service/ per consumer |
3 |
| Development days to upgrade consumer clients |
5 |
| Days to custom provision a consumer |
3 |
| Service Level Agreements (SLAs) |
| Avg of Service Requests/service/year |
2500 |
| SLA Misses |
4% |
| Cost/miss (Penalty/Missed Revenue…) |
10$ |
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