A 75-person services group wants one system for its people, compliance, planning, HR, leave, timesheets, a field app for crews, plus quotes-to-invoice and a CRM, under its own brand. Three ways to get it.
Every month on the old systems is a month you can't add the next capability, open the next site or take on the next contract with the numbers in front of you. With Arkemodi the first build goes live in month 3 and the next feature lands in days. The others are still implementing.
Arkemodi: an illustrative first build of about £65,000, part on signature and the balance when it passes your acceptance tests, then about £2,500 a month for licence, hosting and support. Business Central route: about £140,000 of partner work plus about £3,000 a month from day one. Enterprise route: about £350,000 of implementation plus about £6,000 a month from day one. Market figures from published 2026 guides; Arkemodi figures illustrative pending a scoped proposal.
The honest part: the big suites bring deeper finance and payroll, long reference lists and security certifications Arkemodi is still earning. If your first need is a finance system, compare that separately. For a business that needs its operations in one system that fits how it works, this is the comparison.