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Telecom Expense Management Solutions
Valicom named one of the Top 20 Most Promising Technology Solution Providers for Telecom! We’re so excited to be published in CIO Review’s recent issue highlighting the best technology solution providers in the telecom industry.
With hundreds of telecom expense management software and service solutions, how can you tell which option is the best one for you? Here are six things to look for in a TEM provider to make sure you receive the best service possible with a reliable software solution.
Up until recently, large TEM vendors provided services only to companies over a certain telecom spend. Where this differentiated them competitively with the ability to manage many enterprise clients simultaneously, medium-sized businesses were turned away and smaller businesses were completely ignored.
Businesses are overspending by as much as 50 percent on their telecom bills. Additionally, as many as 80 percent of telephone bills have errors, which could increase costs. Do you or your senior management know what your annual telecom expense total is? If not, now is the time to take control.
Telecom Expense Management; a necessary requirement in the quest to achieve strategic cost reduction. Regardless of the size of the company, all businesses are always looking for ways to understand, validate, control and reduce business expenses. Companies that recognize the need for telecom expense control can choose between the following methods:
It’s fall, and while most eyes are turning to football, those in charge of company finances are eyeing balance sheets and chewing their fingernails thinking about year end reports. So we thought it might be a good time for a reminder that you should also be taking steps to cut the fat from your telecom and wireless budget.
I ran across an interesting article today promoting a class for Telecom Expense Management training called “Best Pactices for Wired and Wireless Network Cost Control“. It is a two day seminar that will set you back eighteen hundred dollars, and the list they cover is daunting to say the least. What it really illustrates nicely is how complex telecom expense management really is if you try to tackle it yourself. Just as an excerpt…
This is a follow-up to my previous blog entitled “Helpfulness of Telecom Auditing and TEM Software Tool For Consultants” and the fifth in a series of blogs that outline the results of Valicom’s telecom consultant survey sent out to telecom consultants in August, 2010. The blog series also discusses the benefits of utilizing telecom expense management tools for telecom and IT consultants.
In an earlier blog dated July 20, 2010 entitled “What are Mid-Sized Organizations Doing About Controlling Telecom Expenses?,” we left you with the question: “What are the keys to telecom expense management (TEM) program success for small to mid-size businesses (SMBs)?”
Spring is in the air, the courses are opening, and I cannot WAIT to get back to playing the game of golf that I love so very much.The only thing I dread? My putting. It’s horrible. Seems like no matter how much I practice, I pull it left or right. I have this awful, sinking feeling when I pull my putter and prepare to hit. It never fails, I three-putt almost every hole.
