Hosted Software Application
The 
Delivery Management System is
based on The Fuel Web Internet-based business platform that provides the propane marketer a Software as a Service (SaaS)
architecture to manage all of the software and hardware applications required to execute the efficient delivery of fuel.
Benefit:
This business platform allows the propane marketer to dedicate more time on their business needs and less time managing their infrastructure requirements. This reduction in infrastructure requirements includes IT staff, Data Server purchase requirements, and the constant integration and maintenance costs of multiple software and hardware systems. In addition, The Fuel Web hosted application data is stored in a highly secure and redundant data center increasing the reliability of service and reducing the costs associated with application down time.
Feature At Work:
A propane marketer with approximately 10,000 customers and 7 retail operations has decided to search for a delivery management business solution to improve bottom line profitability of retail operations. The marketer decides to research the required infrastructure costs associated with traditional software solution architecture vs. hosted software solution architecture (SaaS) such as The Fuel Web Delivery Management. The results were as follows:
The estimate of yearly infrastructure costs of a non-hosted system:
| Servers (Lease Rate on 4 servers) | $5,000 |
| Maintenance (Part Time IT staff) | $30,000 |
| Computers (1 per retail location) | $10,500 |
| High speed internet connection (per year) | $480 |
| Total | $45,980 |
The estimate of yearly infrastructure costs the
hosted system:
| Servers (Lease Rate on 4 servers) | $0 |
| Maintenance (Part Time IT staff) | $5,000 |
| Computers (1 per retail location) | $10,500 |
| High speed internet connection (per year) | $480 |
| Total | $15,980 |
The propane marketer made the decision to spend less time and capital on their infrastructure requirements and more on their core business needs with
the Delivery Management hosted system.
