On-Premise or SaaS: how to choose a COBRA licensing model

Data sovereignty, predictable costs and scalability. A practical guide to choosing the option that best fits your entity.

There's no one-size-fits-all answer

The decision isn't technical but institutional: it depends on the entity's data policy, its infrastructure capacity and how its budgets are structured.

On-Premise perpetual license

With a one-time payment, the entity acquires the right to use the software indefinitely, and it is installed on the entity's own infrastructure. There are no recurring license fees.

• Full control and sovereignty over data.
• Fixed, predictable costs with no annual renewal.
• Requires in-house infrastructure and a technical team to run it.
• Includes minor updates and security patches.

SaaS on a dedicated cloud

An isolated environment with dedicated infrastructure, fully managed by Interkont.

• Unlimited storage and users.
• Scalability from dozens to thousands of projects.
• 24/7 support and guaranteed 99.9% uptime.
• No investment in servers or infrastructure management.

If your data policy requires information to stay within the entity, the decision is already made. If your priority is getting started quickly, so is this one.

Three questions to help you decide

• Do your internal regulations allow information to be hosted outside the entity?
• Do you have a technical team to manage servers and backups?
• Does your budget favor a one-time investment or a recurring expense?