ROI Calculator - SwiftSetup Cloud

Your Organization Details

MDM Admin Hourly Rate ($)

First Tier Support Hourly Rate ($)

IT Tech Deployment Time Per Device (hours)

Devices Managed Annually

Average Employee Hourly Rate ($)

Time to Productivity - Traditional (hours)

Pricing Tier

MDM Solution

Current Setup Tool

One-Time Initial Setup Savings

Ongoing Annual Savings

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Total Cost Reduction

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Hours Saved Per Year

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FTE Equivalent Saved

Important Notes

Indicative Savings: The savings shown are indicative estimates based on typical scenarios and may vary based on your specific environment, processes, and implementation. Actual results may differ.

Works Alongside Your MDM: SwiftSetup Cloud is not an MDM replacement—it works alongside your existing MDM (Jamf, Intune, Kandji, etc.). You'll still use your MDM for device enrollment and management. SwiftSetup makes complex tools (Superman, App Auto Patch, Installomator, Baseline) easy to configure and makes impossible features (dock config, wallpaper, screensaver) accessible.

Employee Productivity Included: These calculations include employee productivity gains from faster time-to-productivity. The "Employee Productivity Gains" row shows the value of employees being able to work sooner due to faster device setup.

Assumed Values: The calculator uses the following assumed values: Time to Productivity with SwiftSetup = 20 minutes (0.33 hours), Number of Update Rings = based on your selected pricing tier (maximum 5 experiences), Restart Notification Ticket Reduction = 40% (based on SwiftSetup's proactive restart notifications).

Ongoing Management & Update Rings

SwiftSetup Cloud transforms ongoing device management by making each experience function as an update ring. This approach eliminates the complexity and cost of traditional policy-based update management.

Simplified Update Rings

Each experience acts as a self-contained update ring. Update the experience once, and all assigned devices automatically receive changes. No need to manage separate policies, groups, or configurations.

Reduced Management Costs

Traditional MDM update ring management requires hours of policy configuration and maintenance per ring. With SwiftSetup Cloud, updating an experience takes seconds, not hours, dramatically reducing ongoing operational costs.

Easy Compliance Tracking

Each experience deploys as a config profile in your MDM, making it easy to identify which devices are on which update ring. Simply check which config profile is installed on a device to see its assigned experience, simplifying audit preparation and compliance verification.

Consistent Configurations

By updating experiences instead of individual devices or policies, you ensure all devices in a ring maintain identical configurations. This eliminates configuration drift and reduces troubleshooting time.

Continuous Improvement & Staged Rollouts

SwiftSetup Cloud's experience-based architecture enables safe, iterative improvements through natural staging workflows. Test changes on a pilot group, then roll out to broader device populations with confidence.

Test-First Workflows

Create a pilot experience with new configurations and assign it to a small test group. Validate changes work as expected before rolling out to production devices. This natural testing workflow reduces risk and ensures quality.

Staged Rollout Process

Use experiences as update rings to stage rollouts: test on Ring 1 (pilot), then expand to Ring 2 (early adopters), and finally Ring 3 (production). Each experience can be updated independently, enabling controlled, phased deployments.

Iterative Updates

Continuously improve your device configurations by updating experiences. Add new apps, modify settings, or adjust policies—all changes propagate automatically to assigned devices. This iterative approach keeps your fleet current without complex policy management.

Risk Mitigation

By testing changes on a pilot experience before broader deployment, you can catch issues early and minimize impact. The experience-based model provides natural isolation between test and production environments, reducing the risk of widespread configuration problems.

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Setup Workflow Comparison

Works Alongside Your MDM — SwiftSetup Cloud works alongside your existing MDM solution (Jamf Pro, Intune, Kandji, etc.). You'll still use your MDM for device enrollment and management. SwiftSetup makes complex tools easy (Superman, App Auto Patch) or replaces them (Baseline), and makes impossible features accessible (dock config, wallpaper, screensaver for non-Jamf MDMs).

Making Complex Tools Easy — Tools like Superman, App Auto Patch, Installomator, and Baseline exist but are difficult to configure. SwiftSetup makes them easy to configure (Superman, App Auto Patch) or replaces them entirely (Baseline). For many IT teams, features like screensaver configuration are beyond their skillset—SwiftSetup makes them accessible and easy.

Update Rings Made Simple — Each experience acts as an update ring, making ongoing management effortless. Update an experience once, and all devices assigned to it automatically receive the changes. This eliminates the need for complex policy management and reduces compliance risk by ensuring consistent configurations across device groups.

Setup Task	Jamf Pro Workflows	Microsoft Intune Workflows	Baseline / Jamf Setup Manager	SwiftSetup Cloud
Setup Configuration Time	12 hours (manual scripting)	14.5 hours (manual scripting)	4.5 hours (manual config)	19 minutes (or 0 minutes with defaults)
Coding Required	Yes (custom scripts)	Yes (custom scripts)	Yes (configs/scripts)	No (GUI-based)
Concurrent Installations	No	No	No	Yes (up to 10x faster)
Batch Orchestration	N/A (sequential only)	N/A (sequential only)	N/A (sequential only)	Yes (batch breaking)
Optional Background Completion	No	No	Yes	Yes
Dock Configuration	Manual scripts	Manual scripts	❌ Not available	✅ GUI-based
Wallpaper Configuration	Manual scripts	Manual scripts	❌ Not available	✅ GUI-based
Screensaver Configuration	Manual scripts	Manual scripts	❌ Not available	✅ GUI-based
App Patching	Separate tool	Separate tool	❌ Not included	✅ Built-in (App Auto-Patch)
OS Patching	Separate tool	Separate tool	❌ Not included	✅ Built-in (SUPERMAN)
Default Experience	❌ No	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes (deploy immediately)
Update Rings / Staging	Complex config (separate policies)	Complex config (separate policies)	❌ Not available	✅ Built-in (each experience = update ring)
Ongoing Management	Manual updates (per device/policy)	Manual updates (per device/policy)	Manual updates	✅ Automated (update experience = update all devices)
Experience/Ring Tracking	Complex policy groups	Complex policy groups	Limited visibility	✅ Simple (via MDM config profile)
Testing & Staged Rollouts	Manual test groups (separate policies)	Manual test groups (separate policies)	❌ Not available	✅ Built-in (pilot experience → production)
Continuous Improvement	Complex updates (per policy/group)	Complex updates (per policy/group)	Manual process	✅ Iterative (update experience = update all)

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