per-user pricing

September 15, 2026 | 18 min

Twelve Headcount, One Number: A Singapore Trading House Rebuilds Its IT Budget Per Person

An illustrative Singapore composite: a ~120-person commodities trading house whose IT line swung between S$2,000 and S$40,000 a month with no pattern a forecast could use. Why project-shaped IT spending cannot be attributed to a desk, what per-user pricing actually changes (and what it does not), the live Singapore plan and token figures worked through against real headcount, and the three ways to buy IT support.