How Data Insights Can Optimize your Organization’s IT Services
As businesses continue to rely on technology to drive their operations, optimizing and managing IT services (one of the largest areas of IT spend for most organizations) has become increasingly important. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by leveraging data insights. In this article, we will explore how businesses can use […]
3 Simple Ways to Manage the Contract Life Cycle of Your IT Professional Services
A critical part of an IT project manager’s role is ensuring they can manage the contract life cycle of IT Professional Services under its supervision. Once the Master Agreement has been signed (sometimes with little to no negotiation due to sensitive timelines of projects), dozens of ancillary contracts – from statement of works to SLAs […]
Telecom-Network Infrastructure Pricing – Preparing a fact base to guarantee the best deal in a negotiation
Often the data available on your Telecom network infrastructure is so scattered that you are unable to negotiate better prices for lack of information. There are so many factors and complexities to consider that is inevitable to be overwhelmed. How to determine the optimal price to aim for when negotiating new deals or renewing […]
Methods for optimizing costs in IT
Methods for optimizing costs in IT Are you looking for ways to optimize costs in IT but not sure where to begin? Trying to work out the most efficient way to identify cost savings? In this article, we’ll look at the different methods of optimizing IT costs and how a cost optimization […]
Identifying the Telco savings your traditional audit can’t
A traditional one-off audit of your Telco services may leave you feeling like the job is done, but they are often incomplete and erroneous. These manual audits of the past are allowing many companies to spend as much as 50% too much on their Telco services, hampering vital growth and data hygiene. The complex Telco […]
Calculating the True Cost of Your Billing Problem
If you are part of a large organization, it almost certainly uses over 100 interconnected technology services and product offerings. Whether these services are telecoms or ICT related, they are generating frequent and complex bills. Measuring the outcomes yielded by these services against their cost is hard, meaning that most will spend up to 50% […]
6 Category Management Strategies To Optimize Telecom Spend
Factors such as bundling services and keeping copies of contracts have their roles to play in reducing telecommunications costs, but many organizations are still failing to investigate a range of unnecessary hidden expenses, and the complexity of a telecom category management process for enterprise procurement teams continues to increase. Whether your organization is paying for disconnected services […]
Proven Strategies to Improve Procurement Intelligence
In modern times, the shift from telecom expense management (TEM) software to technology contract value intelligence continues to gain momentum as the complexity of enterprises telecom asset lifecycle management increases. Every time you send an email or make a call, that is a service being delivered. When organizations use the cloud or machine to machine […]
Why is Technology Expense Management Complex?
Enterprise organizations have been striving to adopt wide ranging emerging technologies including technology expense management providers and telecom expense management software throughout recent history, meanwhile contract value management, contract value intelligence and enterprise spend analysis practices have also been gaining momentum. However, a growing problem exists, the complexity for enterprises to efficiently manage technology expenses […]
Strategic Cost Management for Complex Services: CTO Insights
The focus for enterprises on strategic cost management and contract value intelligence has never been more important. From mobile contracts and packages for your teams, through to the M2M communications between your machines, your organization is consuming technology services in one form or another. You are well aware of your growing need for these services, […]