With recent additions (TCS2 and the e-Learning suites) to the “Adobe Suite” marketing of their applications, it’s important to evaluate how you purchase product from Adobe.
Most everyone expects to get a volume discount with multiple licenses, and it’s true that volume discounts can drastically reduce the overall cost.
However, by choosing the appropriate Suite of applications, and by also including the maintenance contract (paying an annual fee for future upgrades of the application or suite) you can get even greater discounts and save a ton of money in the long run.
Going off of adobe.com, and a previous invoice, here are a few examples for one of my purchases:
TCS2
- List: USD1,899,
- Upgrade from TCS: USD949
- Upgrade from Product: USD1299
- Maintenance Contract USD131/year
So if I’d purchased a retail copy of the original TCS without maintenance and upgraded that license, I would have paid an extra USD757 (the TLP Level 3 volume pricing contract I bought was 2 years at $96/year for the original TCS)
Now that I’m renewing that contract for USD175/year, on average from now on I’ll likely save about USD752 per version (Adobe on average upgrades every 1.5 years, so the math is approximately
USD950 -1.5(USD131)=USD752. If I qualify for a Tier 2 price, I’ll save about a third on the cost of the maintenance contract, or about USD40, briinging my savings to nearly USD800 for the upgrade.
And the math is even more extreme for the individual products.
With Adobe TLP (Transactional Licensing Program) you get discounts at a certain volume level per purchase. These discounts can really add up quickly.
Even with educational pricing (a huge discount for schools and Adobe Authorized training folks) when I purchased 4xTCS (with maintenance) and 1xCS4 Master Collection (with maintenance) I purchased enough to get Tier 3 pricing & got a discount of somewhere in the 40-50% range off of my EDU pricing.
Now that kind of savings is worth lumping together a few orders, and allowed me to get copies of some software (in the Master Collection) that I may not have otherwise gotten.
Comments?
Experiences?
-Matt
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