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Crows Nest ERP Software is designed to be user-friendly and easy to operate and manage. We’re excited to show you what a customizable ERP software solution can do for your manufacturing, custom fabrication, contracting, or installation business. Check out our informative videos, FAQ, and articles, and then give us a call or book a demo!

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FAQ

May we purchase a Crows Nest license rather than having to sign up for a never ending subscription?

Crows Nest Software usage licensing is sold per server on a perpetual one-time purchase basis. It is essential to consider that investing in enterprise-level software such as Crows Nest is strategically and consequentially critical to the future of the corporate entity, in that the solution becomes the infrastructure and directional underpinning of the organization.

Therefore purchase decisions on Enterprise Level Software will have a multi-decade impact. Thus, the TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP over 20 years is significantly less than the never-ending Subscription (rental) model.

Crows Nest also offers an optional annual Update Service, which entitles the license holder to all feature enhancements that become available during their Update Service Agreement term and Unlimited Support.

Platform-based ERP solutions such as Crows Nest are generally tasked with accommodating customer requirements to interact with a large quantity of Project files residing on their local file system.

By design, the OS does not allow the level of access needed between the browser and the local file system for this functionality. Since this has become among the main selling points of CN, we do not want to lose this functionality. Windows apps also allow for integration with other Windows apps via drag-n-drop. Furthermore, in contrast to hosted browser apps (SAAS) where customers do not get to choose when to roll out updates, Crows Nest customers have direct control over which updates they implement across their entire organization.

Lastly, since our sales model is a perpetual software license purchase, should a customer decide to discontinue their update service, they will have full unending, and unfettered access to their latest released version in direct contrast to a browser subscription (SAAS) solution that render their customers cutoff from the solution once they decide to end their monthly payment.

Crows Nest has the advantage of being offered as Resident Based (on-premise-based) or Cloud Based.  Simply, this is due to the fact that every Crows Nest implementation receives its own unique MS SQL Database (resident or cloud implemented). Where cloud-based providers typically designate a slice of their single database to each licensee.

Furthermore, when making an Enterprise Level Software purchase decision you must ask yourself the impact of the “Subscription-Based software supplier” closing their operations versus that of a dedicated database offering supplier such as Crows Nest.  The Subscription-Based provider will ease their customer fear by saying that the customer may download all of their data before the close of operations.  If only it was that easy.  Optimal and scalable database solutions consist of an enormous quantity of tables that refer to each other, therefore all of the data references from each table would need to be recreated once downloaded, as well as a new browser UI written to access the data.  This will be extremely costly not only in a monetary sense but also in terms of downtime.  Remember, your entire business is based on this infrastructure.

With Crows Nest software you’re already set.  You own your usage perpetually of the software, and the entire database is already sitting either on your physical server or in the cloud. The UI is a Windows application so nothing needs to be charged. No downtime, No extra cost, and mitigated risk.

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