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<\/p>\nSubscriptions are all around us.\u00a0 Subscriptions are here to stay.\u00a0 You only have to look as far as your Netflix account.\u00a0 They have had great success using a subscription model and customers benefit from a flat monthly fee for all-inclusive service.\u00a0 Netflix was founded in 1997 and two years later they introduced their monthly subscription service.\u00a0 In 2003 they reached 1M subscribers.\u00a0 In 2017 the number of Netflix subscribers equal that of all the cable subscribers combined. Blockbuster by contrast failed to see the changing needs of consumers and didn\u2019t adapt quickly.\u00a0 Ten years after the arrival of Netflix, Blockbuster had 1.1 billion dollars in losses.\u00a0 Subscriptions are prevalent across the IT products industry. \u00a0Adobe, Amazon, Salesforce, Cisco and Microsoft among others offer subscriptions.<\/p>\n
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For customers, a non-subscription IT product purchase is typically depreciated over five to seven years and upgrading sooner is usually discouraged by their finance department.\u00a0 Purchasing new IT products and upgrading them in three to five years can be financially daunting.\u00a0 Buying subscriptions helps deal with the mismatch between technology and financial cycles.\u00a0 This keeps the customer\u2019s finance department happy and helps the customer maintain control over their IT products and better meet their business demands.<\/p>\n
From a vendor standpoint, subscriptions make sense.\u00a0 The Challenger Sale model as described by Gartner shows that 53% of customer loyalty is driven by the sales experience, more than by the brand, product, service and price combined.\u00a0 Customer loyalty is attributed mostly to HOW a vendor sells and not WHAT they sell.\u00a0 Subscription selling enhances customer interest in all aspects of selling and helps vendors build a tighter relationship with the customer.<\/p>\n
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Infoblox offers a subscription that includes use of software, and access to customer care and services for the subscription period.\u00a0 It does not include hardware & hardware maintenance which needs to be purchased separately. Customers receive the latest technology at a predictable cost. It\u2019s simpler since customers avoid tech upgrade and end of life issues.\u00a0 It saves customers money by helping them avoid over provisioning. They can make a right sized purchase and change as needed, planned or unplanned.\u00a0 And it\u2019s more flexible since customers can enable software portability on-premise, cloud, virtual machines or containers and upgrade anytime. Multi-year subscriptions eliminate the recurring budgeting exercise and enable an easier transition to SaaS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Subscriptions are all around us.\u00a0 Subscriptions are here to stay.\u00a0 You only have to look as far as your Netflix account.\u00a0 They have had great success using a subscription model and customers benefit from a flat monthly fee for all-inclusive service.\u00a0 Netflix was founded in 1997 and two years later they introduced their monthly subscription […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-1030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"tag-infoblox","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n