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Telecom ExpenseManagementBlogs
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What’s Lurking Behind The Cloud?
If you love an awesome business success story or want to learn about how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing were born, “Behind The Cloud,” by Marc Bienoff, CEO of Salesforce.com, is a must read!
The Value of Business Values
Passion, Inspiration, Innovation, Authenticity, Memorable Experiences and Enduring Connections. What do all of these terms have in common? They are Valicom’s values that our employees live and practice every day and that leadership communicates to staff on a regular basis. Through these values, we have developed a world-class culture and a highly satisfied telecom expense management client base.
TEM Education Continued: An Instructive & Enlightening Experience
In my constant quest to grow and expand my knowledge I like to look for resources that I can refer to for our clients and for our company. Recently, I stumbled upon an industry expert named THINKstrategies.
Clearing the Clouds Around Telecom Expense Management
What comes to your mind when you hear the term “Cloud Computing?” These days everyone has a different definition of cloud computing and the only element of consistency is an understanding that it is an exploding technology. Wikepedia asserts that cloud computing is “Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand.”
Telecom Invoice
Telecom invoice. How do you feel when someone wants to talk to you about a Telecom Invoice? Either you are familiar with it or you’re not. Whether you are writing an expense report to justify your monthly telecom expenses, or managing the company’s entire Telecom expenses, you know you will need to be able to interpret the bill.
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Education is the Key to Reducing Telecom Expenses
What do you really know about Mobile expense software? In most cases, telecom expenses are not often reviewed in detail unless an executive within a company questions expenses or is reviewing and planning the upcoming year’s budget.
What do you know about SAAS?
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), according to Wikipedia, is a model of software deployment over the internet. With SaaS, a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand, either through a time subscription or a “pay-as-you-go” model.
Gartner Recommendations for Wireless Expense Management.
As your wireless device options continue to erupt, the ability to properly manage these devices and their associated costs will continue to be a challenge to all organizations. Gartner states: “Defining corporate user requirements and policy is essential for all sizes of organizations, and although every company will need a unique policy, there are key areas that every policy should contain.”
Telecom Expense Management on the Growth Curve of SaaS Adoption Rates
According to Forrester’s “SaaS your Application” webinar attended by Valicom in 2009, the Web 2.0, Collaborative Apps, CRM and web conferencing industries have the greatest Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) rate of adoption with the highest growth curve. There are other industries that are just now adopting SaaS models.
Why Carrier Independence is Important
When Valicom began in 1991, we were founded on the values of carrier independence, ethics, and integrity. Today, there are a small number of IT, finance or sourcing executives who express concern over telecom expense management (TEM) providers who are not carrier agnostic. Most companies seem…
Have you ever heard the definition of Insanity?
Businesses live this everyday and do not even realize it. Especially, when it comes to true telecom expense control. Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Think about this quote for a second and ask yourself if this quote applies to the way you run your company.
Managing Telecom Expenses
I have always lived by the premise that feedback, positive or negative, is a gift. Having tools in place that enable an organization to manage better, or make better decisions faster is the key to obtaining feedback to identify the need for improvement.
You Can’t Control What You Don’t Measure
To be able to actually control a process the process needs to be measured to obtain visibility and identify any variances. Once an inventory can be organized and a process defined then the foundation is in place to begin measurement and control ultimately resulting in telecommunications expense reduction…