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What Payment Model is Used?

GuardTools® is delivered as a service. Instead of buying a fixed system, you subscribe to the software for a monthly fee. The price per month varies depending on the licenses used on each occasion, and is broken down as follows:

 

• Entry-fee (single charge)
• GuardTools® Office – Price/license/month (running)
• GuardTools® Mobile – Price/license/month (running)
• GuardTools® Web – Price/month (running)
• GuardTools® Hosted – Price/month (running for hosting-service)

 

What are the Benefits of this Payment Model and Means of Delivery?

There are several benefits, for example:

 

• You only pay for the licenses you need
• Upgrades with new features are included free of charge
• No costly investment in a large system and IT infrastructure needed
• No expensive project or integration needed to get started
• No expensive consultants needed to develop new features

 

GuardTools® is continuously adapted as demands and conditions of the industry change; and it is all provided to you by this payment model and means of delivery.

 

How does GuardTools® Contribute to Increased Profitability in My Business?

A basic ROI-analysis (Return On Investment) according to the PENG-model highlights some of the business benefits from using GuardTools® (summary of the PENG-model here). The overall benefit is divided into evident, estimable and abstract benefits, where the abstract benefits are the ones hardest to quantify in time and money.

Evident:

• Time saved in reporting by field staff
• Time saved in handling of instructions by field staff
• Time saved in generating reports and distribution to customers
• Time saved in administration of customer-specific information (instructions, barcodes, customer contacts etc.)
• Time saved in planning of resources and assignments (district planning, patrolling schemes, work planning etc.)

Estimable:

• Reduced material consumption (report sheets and other documents, envelopes, postage costs)
• Reduced cellphone costs (questions regarding instructions, handling of alarm panels, codes etc)
• Reduced fuel costs (by means of better assignment planning and avoided callouts on false calls due to incorrect handling by guards)
• Reduced workload on supervisors and emergency service centers (less questions regarding instructions etc)

Abstract:

 

• Reduced staff turnover (reduced insecurity and stress thanks to more accurate instructions)
• Reduced time for introduction of new employees, following standardised working methods and up-to-date information
• Improved quality of services increases the probability of retaining customers
• Better and more frequent reporting and follow-up enables highlighting needs for enhanced surveillance-services to the customer
• The possibility to compete on a total service level, instead of price alone, increases chances of winning contracts

The observations are based on research and studies performed 2001-2004 in cooperation with the Gothenburg municipal insurance company – Göta Lejon, Falck (now G4S) and Securitas. Read more about the research here.

7 December 2011
GuardTools® is now being used by the facility management staff of one of the new UK Academies High Schools.
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5 December 2011
Blue Mobile Systems and PSIC today agreed on a reseller agreement for GuardTools®.
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5 December 2011
Bevakningsgruppen made today a decision to roll out GuardTools® as its operations support system into 2 of its operations.
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29 November 2011
Dedicated marketing and sales of GuardTools® towards parts of the public UK market will be taken on by Simply Secure Solutions.
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18 November 2011
Automatic invoicing of GuardTools® Alarm responses; financial module available for Microsoft Dynamics.
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