See the payback before you commit
PowerStacks pays for itself by giving your team back the hours they lose to manual reporting, app packaging, and audit prep. Here is where that return comes from, and a quick way to estimate your own.
Estimate your savings
Endpoint management burns time in three places: building reports, fielding app requests, and packaging and updating apps. Enter your numbers and we total the yearly return. The three lines measure different work and do not overlap, so they add up, and each is based on a stated figure you can adjust.
Salary plus benefits and overhead, per hour.
The apps you deploy and keep current across your fleet.
How often the average app changes version. Every update is a repackage by hand.
The wrapping, detection scripts, and publishing automation takes off your plate. Excludes testing, which you still do either way.
Across everyone who touches it. Grows with fleet size and complexity, so use your own number.
Every self-service install is a help desk call your team never takes.
Estimated return each year
Packaging counts only the labor automation removes, not the testing you would still do. Assumes $22 per avoided help desk ticket (a common Tier 1 benchmark) and a 70% cut in reporting time, which is an assumption you can change, not a measured figure. Labor and support time only.
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The assumptions this calculator starts with
These are starting points, not measured results. Change any of them in the calculator above to match your own team.
Less time building reports
The default. If you spend ten hours a month in Excel today, the calculator assumes three afterwards.
Per avoided help desk ticket
A common industry benchmark for a tier 1 ticket. Swap in your own cost.
To install
Power BI template app or Azure Marketplace deployment, plus the Graph permission grant. No agents.
None of these are customer-measured figures.
Where the return comes from
The savings are not one line item. PowerStacks removes manual work in four places at once, and the hours add up across the year.
Reporting that builds itself
Compiling compliance data by hand from Microsoft portals takes hours every week. PowerStacks dashboards refresh on their own from Intune, SCCM, and Defender, so that time comes back.
App packaging and updates that run themselves
Packaging a single Win32 app for Intune takes 30 to 60 minutes by hand, and third-party apps like Chrome, Zoom, and Acrobat need it again every time they update. App Store for Intune packages from a catalog of over 12,000 apps and keeps them current automatically, so you stop repackaging every month.
Executive and audit reports without the scramble
When an auditor or an executive asks for the numbers, the answer is already on the dashboard. Compliance, patch status, and security posture stay current, which shortens audit preparation and reduces manual work in Excel.
Safer migrations and faster security response
Tracking co-management status during an SCCM to Intune migration shows compliance gaps as they appear. On the security side, security teams working from unified Defender dashboards can see and act on vulnerabilities without switching between portals.
How we get to these numbers
The reporting figure is an assumption, not a measurement. Change it to match what your team actually spends. The help desk line uses the common industry benchmark of $22 for a Tier 1 ticket. The packaging line counts your applications times how often they change version, which is how much manual repackaging a year of updates really is.
One deliberate choice on packaging: we credit only the labor automation removes, the wrapping, detection scripts, and publishing. We do not count testing, because you still test an app whether or not the packaging was automated. That is why the per-app figure defaults to about an hour; estimates that include testing time will be higher.
The calculator totals three separate dimensions: packaging and update labor, avoided help desk tickets, and recovered reporting time. They measure different work and do not overlap, so they add up cleanly. It still leaves out audit preparation and migration tracking, so a full accounting comes out higher.
Every PowerStacks product runs in your own Azure tenant using native Microsoft APIs, so there are no per-endpoint agents to license or maintain, and nothing leaves your environment. That keeps the cost side simple and predictable.
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