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title: ROI Calculator and Business Case - Key2XS
description: Build the five-year business case for identity-governed physical access. Value recovered, Key2XS investment, payback and cumulative cash flow, with every assumption visible and editable.
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# Build your business case

A five-year ROI model for identity-governed physical access. Enter seven facts about your organization, inspect every assumption behind the numbers, and take the result to your CFO.

### Your organization

Seven facts about your environment. Everything else is an assumption you can inspect and change below.

Environment

Electronic cylinders

Physical access points in scope.

Electronic keys / mobile identities

Active key holders: employees, contractors and field engineers.

Operations today

Key administration

FTE

Full-time equivalents on manual provisioning, revocation, reporting and reconciliation.

Lost or unreturned keys per year

Includes contractor and employee turnover.

Audit and compliance effort per year

€

Evidence collection, reconciliations and remediation.

Access-related field interventions per year

Site visits for wrong access, expired permissions and emergency changes.

Risk and continuity

Material access incidents per year

Unauthorized or unmanaged physical-access events.

Assumptions

Industry defaults behind the model. Edit them to match your organization; every result updates instantly.

Fully loaded cost per FTE Salary plus employer costs and overhead, per year.

€

Reduction in admin effort with Key2XS Automation and IAM/IGA-driven lifecycle.

%

Average cost per lost key incident Replacement, investigation, travel, re-keying exposure.

€

Reduction in lost-key incident cost Faster revocation and digital control.

%

Reduction in audit effort Automated governance, logging and reporting.

%

Average cost per field intervention Travel and labor.

€

Reduction in field interventions Remote and automated access lifecycle.

%

Expected cost per material incident Investigation, downtime, remediation and management effort.

€

Risk reduction with Key2XS Governed identity-based access and faster revocation.

%

Reset all values to defaults

Key2XS business case

Five-year ROI model, generated from key2xs.com/roi-calculator

Value recovered with Key2XS

€0 per year

Today's annual cost of physical accessOperating cost plus expected incident cost, before Key2XS €0

Key2XS investment per yearSubscription and support €0

One-off implementationConnector, configuration and rollout, Year 0 €0

Net annual benefit €0

Payback

n/a

5-year ROI

0%

5-year net benefit

€0

#### Where the value comes from

Annual benefit by category, after the reduction assumptions

Administration

€0

Lost or unreturned keys

€0

Audit and compliance

€0

Field interventions

€0

Risk reduction

€0

#### Cumulative cash flow, Year 0 to Year 5

Cumulative cash flow Break-even 

Year-by-year detail

| Metric | Year 0 | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

#### Inputs and assumptions used

| Input | Value |
| --- | --- |

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Commercial ROI estimate, not an accounting forecast. Risk savings are expected-value assumptions and should be validated against your own incident history. The Key2XS investment shown uses indicative list pricing; a proposal for your environment may differ.

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### Get the full business case

Leave your details and we unlock a printable PDF of this model, including the year-by-year cash flow and every assumption used.

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Open the PDF and choose Save as PDF in the print dialog. The document includes your inputs, the assumptions and the five-year cash flow.

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## Want a proposal built on your numbers?

Share the model with our team and we turn it into a proposal for your environment, or book a demo to see the identity lifecycle drive physical access.

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### Contact us

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### Platform

- [Why Physical Access Governance?](https://key2xs.com/physical-access-governance?hsLang=en)
- [Product](https://key2xs.com/products?hsLang=en)
- [Integrations](https://key2xs.com/integrations?hsLang=en)
- [ROI calculator](https://key2xs.com/roi-calculator?hsLang=en)

### Compliance

- [CER Directive](https://key2xs.com/cer-directive?hsLang=en)
- [NIS2 Directive](https://key2xs.com/nis2-directive?hsLang=en)
- [EU Enforcement Tracker](https://key2xs.com/cer-tracker?hsLang=en)

### Company

- [SailPoint partnership](https://key2xs.com/sailpoint-partnership?hsLang=en)
- [Resource center](https://key2xs.com/resources?hsLang=en)
- [Events](https://key2xs.com/events?hsLang=en)
- [News](https://key2xs.com/news-archive?hsLang=en)
- [Contact](https://key2xs.com/contact?hsLang=en)

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