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Replace Your Excel Spreadsheets with A Web-Based TEM Tool

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Replace Your Excel Spreadsheets with A Web-Based TEM Tool

Managing your telecom expenses gives you a clear picture of your voice and data consumption, which is essential to your business operations. With the right expense management system in place, you can gain enhanced control of your communications budget and wasting resources will become a thing of the past.

Telecom expense management (TEM) is a highly-sought-after solution that helps businesses pinpoint their overspending patterns and create both long- and short-term savings. Even though operating a TEM solution in-house is often of the utmost value, a cloud-based TEM solution brings more value to the table.

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How Does a TEM Software Solution Streamline Workflow?

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How Does a TEM Software Solution Streamline Workflow?

Running a successful business requires more than the ability to track sales and generated revenue each month. In order to streamline the workflow with your employees while also maximizing productivity, software solutions are extremely beneficial.

Using TEM (Telecom Expense Management) software solution helps to boost productivity while providing advantages over managing the telecommunication bills and data manually and by utilizing manpower in the workplace.

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How Often Should Companies Upgrade Mobile Devices?

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How Often Should Companies Upgrade Mobile Devices?

Plenty of businesses like to provide mobile devices to employees. Some use it as a perk. Others find it’s more cost-effective to be able to collectively bargain the support that comes with using mobile phones in the workplace. Whatever the reasoning, if your business is supplying devices, you need to have an upgrade plan.

While a doctor’s office can try to get away with using ancient desktops, mobile devices don’t last quite so long. With a little bit of planning and a few minutes of reading, you can adjust your upgrade cycle to make sure your plan isn’t hurting the bottom line.

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5 Ways to Cut IT Infrastructure Costs

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5 Ways to Cut IT Infrastructure Costs

It always comes back to money. Many business owners and operators would prefer to put all of their focus towards satisfying customers and providing the goods or services that they truly value.

Unfortunately, there are expenses outside of that scope, and one of the big money eaters in every industry is IT. Yet, bringing those expenses under control doesn’t have to be as daunting as it feels. Here are five tips that can get your spending under control in surprisingly short order.

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5 Money Traps for IT Departments

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5 Money Traps for IT Departments

It seems inevitable that someone who is not an expert in IT will have at least some responsibility of overseeing IT costs and spending. That’s just how things go. What is vital when this occurs is to ensure that anyone in charge of finances has an opportunity to understand some of the unique ways IT costs impact ROI. With that in mind, these are the five of the most common IT-related money traps that hurt businesses in every industry.

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11 Benefits Of Working With A Small Vendor

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11 Benefits Of Working With A Small Vendor

Many providers are very concerned about being small scale. As a result, most of them bottle up their potential. Upcoming providers should keep In mind that their small size comes with many benefits as well as disadvantages. Small vendors should appreciate and celebrate their size as it’s the first step towards achieving great success in their messaging and sales process.

It’s therefore important to understand that size is relative. If you consider yourself as a smaller provider in Telecom Expense Management, (or if you’re perceived to be one), it will be determined by who it is you compete with. This article highlights the benefits of working with emerging providers as compared to larger competitors.

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TEM Is the Buzzword That Can Get Your IT Costs Under Control

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TEM Is the Buzzword That Can Get Your IT Costs Under Control

Not long ago, Telecom and Technology Expense Management (TEM) were concepts in the exclusive domain of large enterprises. As automation creeps further into every level of every business, it seems only natural that the platforms become more accessible to businesses of all sizes.

If you aren’t familiar with the concept, TEM represents a holistic approach to tracking and managing runaway technology expenses that plague many businesses.

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New Telecom Savings Opportunity You Can’t Afford to Miss

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New Telecom Savings Opportunity You Can’t Afford to Miss

We are thrilled to announce that we are now disrupting the decades-old telecom expense management (TEM) industry by offering this innovative Savings Share opportunity. The new TEM savings share opportunity works to take the commitment and concern out of the TEM savings process.

Top 7 Reasons to Manage Wireless Devices

Top 7 Reasons to Manage Wireless Devices

The use of mobile devices continues to grow at an astronomical speed. Even back in 2013, studies show there were more wireless devices on the face of the earth than there were people. From an operational standpoint, as your network grows larger with a greater use of mobile devices, your need for telecom expense management (TEM) increases too.

In order to stay in the game, it is essential to have a management system in place to keep track of your wireless expenses. Without tracking telecom costs, the majority of companies end up wasting money each month. Here's a close look at the top seven reasons to manage wireless devices.

How to Bridge the IT Talent Gap in the Best Way Possible

How to Bridge the IT Talent Gap in the Best Way Possible

As jobs in the US are growing at an exponential rate and more demand is being placed for skills in cybersecurity and IT talent, the race is on for HR managers to find the ideal workforce for these roles. But as more baby boomers are retiring, the talent gap continues to widen. The most recent Manpower Talent Shortage Survey shows talent gaps in U.S. companies that are as large as 32 percent, particularly those in the construction, healthcare, and manufacturing industries.

Few things hinder a company's functions faster than significant talent holes. This widening gap is challenging HR managers across the country to think outside the box to find new methods for solutions. A few of them from experts in the talent search field is below.

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What We Can Learn From the Girl Scout STEM Initiative

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What We Can Learn From the Girl Scout STEM Initiative

You have undoubtedly heard of gender gaps in STEM fields. It’s apparent enough that most people working in IT can relate on a personal level. Rather than look at political debates and government programs, we’re going to focus on the idea that private investment in STEM-related programs for girls and young women is a surefire way to help bridge that gender gap and help introduce a large number of new people into these industries.

If you really want to stopper the talent gaps in IT and computer science, getting young women excited about the fields is probably the easiest route to take.

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5 Tips for Managing Telecom Expenses in Excel

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5 Tips for Managing Telecom Expenses in Excel

Up until the early 1980s, most telephone networks in the United States were operated and owned by AT&T. Since AT&T was a monopoly, the firm dictated the services and equipment available for customer use and their charges. Although this arrangement might not have been suitable for their clients, it was simple and straightforward. With time, new entrants into the industry were established, and billing overcharges became rampant. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when managing corporate telecom expenses using Excel.

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The Processor War is Heating Up

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The Processor War is Heating Up

There is a full-scale processor war happening right now. It started about a year ago, and the intensity has grown since. AMD and Intel have both made some exciting recent announcements. We’ll take a look at what is new and how you can benefit from the grueling competition.

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Tariff Talks Impacting IT

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Tariff Talks Impacting IT

Tariffs are the talk of the day for most economists. Stock markets ping pong every time there’s a new announcement, and there are already major business sectors that are bracing for the potential storm of a trade war. There’s a lot of hyperbole and fear involved with this topic, but the truth underneath it all is that every business needs to have an idea of what to expect from these tariffs.

Condensing an analysis of the entire economy into a single blog post would be a little too ambitious, so this one is going to focus on IT. More specifically, we’re going to discuss how tariffs are likely to shape the landscape of IT across industries.

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5 Pro Tips for Streamlining TEM Software

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5 Pro Tips for Streamlining TEM Software

The use of telecom expense management (TEM) has become increasingly popular over the past two decades. Organizations are seeing time and time again that managing telecom expenses is a key driver in being able to save thousands of dollars each year. Even a single employee who is abusing telecom practices can cost an organization a substantial amount of money. With TEM, it becomes possible to pinpoint employee abuse of mobile services as well as to identify telecom billing errors.