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Cost allocation is a complex task within businesses. Businesses already have to account for direct materials or service costs, R&D costs, rent costs, and client costs. What other costs are there to account for? The expenses that firms subtract from revenues all...
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Did you miss our TEM for healthcare webinar? It’s now available on-demand, and on your schedule. Last week we hosted our first ever healthcare focused webinar – and were so glad to have such a great reception from attendees. Rising costs are driving healthcare organizations to rapidly adopt telecom expense management (TEM) practices, and for good reason.
Just a few days remain until our next webinar, ‘TEM For Healthcare’. We’ll cover why healthcare organizations have the most to gain from proper telecom expense management. Join us June 10th at 1:00pm CST.
Each year we’re trying to do more with less. Especially within the healthcare industry. More specific to the IT department, telecom budgets are expected to reach $100 billion in the healthcare industry by 2017.
Register Now! The New Year is here, and it’s time to start considering what it will mean for your telecom environment. What is changing, what is staying the same, what is half way out the door? Get the answer to these questions,and discuss opportunities for improved processes in our latest webinar.
Now Available! Watch on your schedule.Last week we had a great turnout for our webinar “Unlock Savings: Finding Telecom Inefficiencies”. The webinar was designed to assist in streamlining TEM processes for in-house telecom managers and telecom business consultants.
UPCOMING LIVE TRAINING – Just a few days remain until our latest webinar, ‘Unlock Savings: Finding Telecom Inefficiencies’. Access key savings in your telecom budget with a few tips from our telecom expense management experts.
Good Morning Monday! Did you know we host webinars? Yes! Get all of your IT cost control know-how in one place, take a peek in our webinar library.From better cost allocation across departments, to rock solid contract negotiation, there are many opportunities for savings in your current telecom processes. Learn to identify and take action on those opportunities in our webinars.
UPCOMING LIVE TRAINING – Grab the keys to unlocking critical savings in your telecom budget. Valicom’s upcoming ‘Unlock Savings: Finding Telecom Inefficiencies’ webinar will shed light on some of the most commonly overlooked opportunities for savings in telecom management. We’ll cover improvements in financial, technological, and operational processes, for recouping time and resources in telecom expenses.
As I discussed yesterday, we ran some polls during our latest webinar – “Plugging the Leak: How Software Tools & Strong Tactics Contain Telecom Costs” – with some interesting results. Well, not interesting to us – we know what causes our client’s pain – but maybe interesting to you.
While hosting our summer webinar we gained some insight into our audience’s telecom challenges. To help the attendees learn from their peers, and to keep them awake, we offered a few poll questions with interesting results….
The first question asked what they found their biggest telecom management challenge to be. I was curious to see where the main pain points fell among the usual culprits – telecom inventory management, wireless device and plan control, telecom invoice auditing and processing, issue tracking and credit recovery or vendor management.
75% of the attendees said telecom invoice auditing and processing was their biggest hurdle. Based on what our clients come to us for, I would probably concur with that. The piles of paper and the expertise to know what to look for while auditing, are both challenging.
The next biggest response was telecom inventory management. Knowing WHAT you have is half the battle. At least if your inventory is accurate you can sort of tell what you should be paying for, and we spend a lot of time organizing and updating inventories for our clients. Clearview, our telecom expense management software, is great for helping with that.
Feel free to read more if you’re interested in knowing how Valicom can help you with telecom invoice auditing or telecom invoice processing. We can also offer a hand with telecom inventory management. And you can always use Clearview – our TEM software – to manage it in house. Tomorrow I’ll talk about another interesting poll question we did on telecom RFPs.
We’re happy to finally be rolling out our anticipated summer 2011 webinar on telecom cost control tactics. And by tactics we mean what? Well, telecom expense management has a lot of facets. Firms are interested in how to control expenses for landline telephones, wireless devices, cell phones, smartphones, tablets, data services – the list is endless. We will go over the things you should be focusing on – where the best areas for savings are – and best practices in managing your telecom environment.
