Sometimes it’s nice to get back to basics. Wipe the slate clean, and start totally fresh. So often we get caught up in the deep telecom details, that it’s easy to forget that there are organizations out there have no idea that there are options for their telecom spend. They have no idea what telecom cost management is or how to start finding these savings.
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.
At Valicom, our mission has always been to help organizations reduce telecom expenses, while also achieving transparency and efficiency within their environment. It’s this mission that has kept us focused for over 24 years, and let’s just say – it’s become quite a passion of ours. Just take a look at a few of our favorite success stories…
Business today is all about having the right tools and technology. This means telephones, mobile phones, pagers, expensive high-speed internet connections, laptops with wireless capabilities, the list goes on and on. Each year the complexity of your technology environment grows. New gadgets hit the market, and the number of people within your organization who needs these things goes up. All of that leads to complexity, and complexity can lead to a higher risk for errors.
What is telecom expense management? Essentially, it is an all encompassing term that refers to the overall monitoring and handling of wireless, voice, and data assets for your company. This is a process you can do yourself, via a web-based platform like Clearview, or you can partner with a firm like Valicom to do these services for you. Whoever does it, in plain language, it means gathering all of your telecom bills and looking for overcharges through a telecom audit, searching for contract violations, finding ways to save money, and negotiating directly with vendors to get a better deal.
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.
You may have missed some of our top TEM resources and tips! Here are a few of our favorites from the last few months. Whatever your learning style – we have something that will suit your telecom knowledge needs!
Processing thousands of invoices for several carriers each month can be an overwhelming and daunting task. Today we’ll share several of our tips for telecom invoice processing.
When a new client approaches Valicom, our first step towards TEM is to create a full inventory of their telecom environment. It helps our team of telecom experts get their arms around what the client currently has within their contracts. More often then not, there are inefficiencies and unused or under used items, that can be turned off. What makes up your telecom environment? Here’s a more telling question… do you even know what is included in your telecom environment?
Valicom offers the absolute smorgasbord of telecom services! Our a la carte service menu options means that you pick only the telecom expense management (TEM) services you want and need. Our mission is to help our clients reduce their telecom expenses. We do this by offering robust telecom contract and invoices services. Mix and match them. Every telecom environment is a little bit different.
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.
Healthcare is an industry we see again and again having the biggest impact through TEM initiatives. Why? Because the healthcare industry as a whole is constantly forced to do more with smaller budgets. What that means is tightening their spending belts wherever they can. For the IT department, that’s where proper telecom expense management comes into play.
Companies are always looking for ways to save money since costs cut into profits. Keeping employee and company expenses within budget can be a daunting task. The use of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions can help with reducing the costs by concentrating on your company’s technology, business processes, policies and overall usage with employees and customers.
Today more than ever, healthcare organizations are trying to do more with less. Budgets are dissipating, costs for care are rising, and compliance is becoming more difficult. Healthcare systems are joining forces, through mergers and acquisitions, to share costs and become more lean. This is where the complications begin, and where telecom expense management, specifically TEM in healthcare can play a critical role in deciphering and controlling IT and telecom costs.
We’ve seen a big uptick in interest in audits and inventories in the last year, and we predict that interest will continue into 2015. It’s detailed and tedious work, that you can do internally – but you may not have the time, resources or expertise to be doing it to the full capacity. Because to the untrained eye, finding billing errors in mounds of invoices….
We may have mentioned this previously, but it is so important that we need to review on occasion. Let’s talk about your wireless expenses. How much does your company spend each month – do you know? And the trick question here is – are you sure?
In February, Gartner released their evaluation of network service providers in the United States. They put AT&T, Verizon, XO Communications, Sprint, and many more under the microscope. As a network manager or sourcing professional – what should you be looking for and measuring against? Access critical benchmark and rating data in their ‘Critical Capabilities for Wireline Telecom Services, US‘ report.
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Sifting through all of your telecom invoice data takes time. Especially in large and complex telecom environments, with many locations and services. Whether you are looking for an individual piece of data or you are attempting to audit yourself for critical savings, piling through line after line of telecom invoice information becomes incredibly time consuming, squashing your productivity and the productivity of anyone else working on the invoice.
Telecom bill pay is a time-consuming process, that when handled wrong – can end up costing your organization even more. If you misapply a payment, or miss a deadline – you’ll be slammed with late fees. Avoid these costs (both time and resources) with automatic bill pay, a telecom expense management service offered by Valicom
Valicom serves clients in a wide range of industries across the U.S. We help them reduce their telecom expenses with a winning combination of exceptional people, highly structured telecom audit processes and sophisticated computing and reporting systems.