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Guaranteed Availability 20#

Within this model, the availability of a product or service is guaranteed, resulting in almost zero downtime. The customer can use the offering as required, which minimizes losses resulting from downtime. The company uses expertise and economies of scale to lower operation costs and achieve these availability levels.


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Examples: Iconic Cases

How they do it: Dropbox file hosting service is available 24/7, allowing customers to access their files anytime and from anywhere.
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How they do it: McFit’s fitness centers are all open 24/7 allowing its customers to work out every day and time of the week. By having a completely self-serviced offering, the personnel needed to guarantee the around-the-clock opening hours is minimal.
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How they do it: For it’s cloud platform offering, SAP’s System Availability SLA is 99.5%, meaning, that during any time period, SAP’s customer can count on the software to be available for this percentage, and is otherwise compensated according to a service level agreement.
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How they do it: Netflix’s offering is available 24/7 due to its digital nature, allowing it to scale its userbase rapidly.
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How they do it: AWS guarantees its customers 24/7 availability of cloud computing capacity. This allows them to price in maitenance and sell their capacity at a premium with full serice.
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Apply this pattern to your own business and create your next innovative business model!

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