How much is your IT downtime actually costing you every year?
Most South African businesses underestimate the true cost of IT downtime. Use our free calculator to find your number, then decide if your current IT investment makes sense.
Fill in your numbers below. All figures are approximate; we’ll calculate a conservative estimate of your downtime exposure.
YOUR ESTIMATED ANNUAL IT DOWNTIME COST
This includes lost staff productivity, estimated lost revenue and a conservative emergency recovery cost estimate.
Is this number higher than your annual IT support cost?
For most South African SMEs, the answer is yes. AtomGate’s managed services clients typically recover more than their monthly fee in prevented downtime within the first 60 days.
Book a Free IT Cost Review →When your systems are down, your staff cannot work. At an average fully loaded cost of R350 per employee per hour, a 14-person team costs you R4,900 every hour the lights are off.
Every hour your systems are down is an hour your sales team cannot process orders. For a business turning R1.2M per month, that is R1,667 in revenue exposure every hour.
Unplanned IT failures attract premium rates. Emergency call-outs and data recovery services can add R15,000–R60,000 to a single incident, costs that never appear in your IT budget.
Downtime that affects your clients has a long tail. Conservative estimates put the client retention cost of a single significant downtime event at 2–3x the direct recovery cost.
When most South African SMEs calculate their actual downtime cost, they find it exceeds their annual IT support spend by a significant margin. Managed IT isn’t a cost; it’s an investment that pays for itself.
See AGMS managed services →Book a free 30-minute call with one of our senior specialists. We’ll give you an honest picture of what managed IT would cost your business, and what it would save.