About this Estimator

This estimator is intended to demonstrate potential costs of spam with or without the Scora service for your organization using certain key assumptions, most of which are noted below.

The estimator measures labor-related costs only at this time. This is usually more than enough to demonstrate the potential savings and
recapture of productivity for a Scora-protected domain. There are additional infrastructural savings for organizations as well (bandwidth,
storage, CPU time, data preservation) which we hope to include as the estimator evolves.

Scora has a wide range of effectiveness, since it can be customized. These estimates are based on the system default settings.

You will note that our estmates here are conservative. Since no spam or virus filter can realistically or ethically claim 100% accuracy, we make
sure to include potential error (both machine and human) in these estimations. We avoid hype, over promising or setting unrealistic
expectations. This attitiude and modesty is part of Tiki Technologies' committment to ethics and responsible delivery of our products.

Many ROI calculators are a "black box" that give you stunning numbers without ever telling you what assumptions are made to get them. Tiki
Technologies wants you to know these assumptions so that you can judge for yourself how much confidence to put in these numbers.
Any ROI calculator is just a rough guess. The real test is to give Scora a try. We usually have a special offer that makes it easy to do this without
much hassle or expense. Please give us a call.


Assumptions used in the estimator:

Scora's default settings will effectively remove about 90 to 95% of spam (the estimator uses the more modest 90% number) and 99.99% of viruses.
(effectively, it will filter any email virus, except ones for which a rule is not yet written. Virus filters are updated every 24 hours.)

We further estimate (using industry information and observation) that:

• reviewing an unfiltered email box requires about 4 seconds
  per email on average.
• reviewing a Scora quarantine report and filtered email
  requires about 1.5 seconds per email on average.
• Scora is effective in stopping 99.9% of email borne viruses.
  There are viruses that use other methods to attack computers
  such as infected floppy disks. Time and money spent
  resolving virus infections through other means are not used
  by this estimator.
• use of an effective virus filtering system will result in about
  one quarter as much viral infestation than is likely to
  occur in an unfiltered email environment.
• use of an effective spam filtering system will result in about
  half as much human error losing or overlooking emails as is
  likely to occur in an unfiltered email environment.
  
  

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