{"id":5420,"date":"2021-06-17T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/?post_type=faqs&#038;p=5420"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T19:38:59","slug":"how-does-a-cloud-dental-solution-save-my-dental-practice-money","status":"publish","type":"faqs","link":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/faqs\/how-does-a-cloud-dental-solution-save-my-dental-practice-money\/","title":{"rendered":"How does a cloud dental solution save my dental practice money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A: Legacy desktop software requires a high upfront license cost, plus fees for extra support and maintenance, software updates, disaster recovery, security, and intrusion detection, additional IT support, and any analytics or reporting add-ons. Also, any of your physical locations would need to purchase servers and other hardware to run the legacy software. Since servers become obsolete within 3-5 years, your office would regularly need to invest in new hardware to keep up. With a cloud solution like Denticon or Apteryx XVWeb, most of the costs listed above are eliminated, and related services are combined all in one place. These all-in-one cloud solutions can lower your IT burden and costs while boosting your practice&#8217;s efficiency and security.<\/p>\n<p>Are you wondering how to save your dental practice money? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/blog\/denticon-pricing-for-dsos-part-2-of-the-why-denticon-series\/\">Here are some other costs and ways to save money.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consider moving your dental practice to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>How does moving your dental practice to the cloud save you money exactly?<\/p>\n<p>There are several things that add up to significant cost savings versus antiquated on-premise dental practice management solutions, for example, legacy desktop software requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u00a0High upfront license cost<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u00a0Fees for extra support and maintenance<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u00a0Fees for software updates<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u00a0Fees for disaster recovery, security, and intrusion detection<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\u00a0Additional, expensive IT support<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Costs for any analytics or reporting add-ons<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Requiring the purchase of servers and other hardware to run the\u00a0 non-cloud software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since servers become obsolete within 3 to 5 years, your dental office would regularly need to invest more and more money in new hardware in order to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>With a cloud dental solution like Denticon or Apteryx XVWeb, most of the costs and fees listed above are eliminated, and third-party services and add-ons are combined into one all-inclusive management system.<\/p>\n<p>These all-in-one cloud solutions can lower your IT burden and hardware costs while boosting your practice&#8217;s efficiency and security.<\/p>\n<p>Still want to see how you can save? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentalproductsreport.com\/view\/25-ways-practice-management-software-can-save-you-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out more ways a practice management software can help you save.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faqs-category":[1345],"class_list":["post-5420","faqs","type-faqs","status-publish","hentry","faqs-category-planet-dds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faqs"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faqs-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs-category?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}