Introduction Atlantic Computer developed a product‚ the “Atlantic Bundle”‚ to meet an emerging basic server market. The Atlantic Bundle is a Tronn server coupled with the Performance Enhancing Server Accelerator software tool “PESA”. Atlantic Computer must decide on the pricing strategy. Situational Analysis The external analysis is as follows: • Customers: The first customer identified has a primary need to host websites‚ “Web Server” customer. The second customer identified has a primary
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Atlantic Computer is a large manufacturer for servers and other technology products. They have seen great success in the last 30 years since they have been competing in the market. While they have previously dominated the high-end server market‚ they are looking to expand to an emerging market‚ the basic server market. In order to do so‚ they have developed Tronn along with the Performance Enhancing Server Accelerator‚ otherwise known as PESA. Because Atlantic is penetrating new market segment than
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FOUR PRICING OPTIONS FOR DAYTRADERJOURNAL.COM The first option followed Atlantic’s tradition of only charging customers for hardware and giving away the PESA software for free‚ assuming that each Tronn server costs $2‚000. While free software is believed to be the “industry norm‚” it puts Atlantic at a considerable disadvantage as they would not be reimbursed for the fixed cost of $2 million spent to develop their proprietary performance-enhancing software. This price‚ however‚ ensures that the
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ATLANTIC COMPUTER Atlantic Computer‚ a large manufacturer of servers and other high-tech products‚ has assigned Jason Jowers the responsibility of developing the pricing strategy for the new ‘Atlantic Bundle’. The bundle incorporates a new Tronn server and the Performance Enhancing Server Accelerator (PESA) software tool which allows the Tronn to perform up to four (4) times faster than its standard speed. The Tronn was specifically developed to meet an emerging U.S. marketplace opportunity and
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ATLANTIC COMPUTER – CASE STUDY QUESTIONS 1.- What Price should Jowers charge DayTraderJournal.com for the Atlantic Bundle (that is‚ Tronn servers + PESA software tool) according to the following four criteria? Option A): Status-quo pricing $4000 for the Atlantic Bundle. Option B): Competition-based pricing $6800 for the Atlantic Bundle. Option C): Cost-plus pricing $4491.04 for the Atlantic Bundle. Option D): Value-in-use pricing $8400 for the Atlantic Bundle. 2.- Think broadly about
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Atlantic Computer: A Bundle of Pricing Options * SK50911 양지호 오명은 박종도 윤원영 Summary Atlantic computer’s most important goal is to increase profitability by selling ‘Tronn with PESA’ packages to consumers who want to operate web sites or share files. Among 4 price alternatives suggested in the case‚ the price based on value-in-use pricing analysis will be charged for ‘Tronn with PESA’ package. To achieve this goal‚ the company should overcome some impediments; one is that consumers are
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October 18th 2011 Atlantic Computer Case Section 1 1. The “Atlantic Bundle” should use a value-in-use pricing strategy. 2. $2‚500 per Tronn server with PESA software 3. Sales force will have a tough time selling the increased cost of the servers to the end customer based on software; the standard in the marketplace is that this software should be free. Also‚ they will be concerned with a smaller commission with fewer servers being purchased by each customer. To motivate the
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VBA Option Pricer Introduction The Black Scholes Model of Stock Prices Fischer Black‚ Myron Scholes and Robert Merton made significant advances in the development of options pricers with their papers published in 1973. According to the Black Scholes model‚ the price path of stocks is defined by the following stochastic partial differential equation The development of a transparent and reasonably robust options pricing model underpinned the transformational growth of the options market
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Assignment Atlantic computers‚ a leading player in the high-end server market‚ has detected a marketplace opportunity in the basic server segment. They have developed a new server‚ the Tronn‚ to meet the needs of this segment. In addition they have created a software tool‚ called the “performance Enhancing Server Accelerator” or PESA‚ that allows the Tronn platform up to four times faster than its standard speed. The central question in the case revolves around how to price the Tronn and PESA
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Pricing Course Module in Marketing Management Course Modules help instructors select and sequence material for use as part of a course. Each module represents the thinking of subject matter experts about the best materials to assign and how to organize them to facilitate learning. Each module recommends four to six items. Whenever possible at least one alternative item for each main recommendation is included‚ as well as suggested supplemental readings that may provide a broader conceptual context
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