So since this is my shiny new throwaway... I just got a quote from Argus to start using AE in our shop. Has anyone else priced this out before?
Never had to care before as it was always just there care of my employer, but holy shit. Something like $20k per user, plus 20% for the annual service plan.
Are any small shops out there actually spending this on it? Just seems ridiculous, it's not THAT much easier than using Excel. Hell for 20 grand I could just pay for the entire office to do REFM and the BIWS training. Or fly Josh Kahr in to teach it personally haha.
Anyone else had similar thoughts and experiences?
I work for a smaller shop and we share a single license. We priced ours out to about $10k per year. We are still using Argus DCF though, maybe AE is more expensive.
I would argue that complicated office and industrial leasing scenarios are way easier to handle in Argus than excel. I'm not the one paying for the license though so YMMV.
I don't know how that would work with AE. Maybe that's their way of force upgrading everyone and preventing exactly what your office is doing.
You're right, complicated scenarios ARE much easier to handle in Argus than excel, I just don't think it's 20k easier. Plus once you have a base model in excel for each asset type you look at on a regular basis, it's a lot more copy/paste if you actually understand how the model is structured and you're not just using someone else's pre-built.
ha. Send me a PM , I complain enough on these boards about Argus as it is.
How did you host Argus? Was it on an internal SQL server or did you host it with an external client? If external, which group do you use?
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