“We recently commissioned our new Disaster Recovery Data Center base on the planning and implementation process that Advocate Networks initiated. We would not have been successful without the valuable knowledge, experience, and collaboration of your team.”
Nick Grecco,
General Manager & VP, Technology Services,
S1 Corporation
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Why Do Telecom
Expense Management Projects Fail?
Phone+ Magazine
August 1, 2008 Tim Wise
As professionals in the telecommunications industry, we all can appreciate the complexity of managing an enterprise’s overall communications environment and expense. With today’s challenging economic conditions, enterprises are even more likely to consider telecom expense management solutions in hopes of achieving cost savings and improving efficiencies. That’s good news for the channel. The bad news is that many of them will fail.
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Get the Best Deal on Data Center Services and Equipment
What’s the secret to optimizing your procurement process? It starts with crafting a data center RFP that lays the groundwork for...
- Clearly identifying your technical, operational, and availability requirements
- Selecting qualified data center operators that can competitively deliver the IT footprint you need
- Improving vendor performance and relationships
- Accelerating procurement cycles
We support your data center RFP effort through a broad base of technical and operational expertise in data center planning, site selection, physical security, data center infrastructure cost estimation, contract negotiations, implementation, and consolidation.
How We Do It
We use our technical expertise and market intelligence to assist you with challenging tasks such as:
- Data Center Strategy. We help you clarify requirements, identify Tier level targets, create cost and benefit, ROI and TCO estimates, and craft a roadmap for aligning your strategic goals.
- Data Center Design. We assess options (buy versus build), author RFPs, and identify data center collocation, engineering, and construction partners.
- Data Center Transition. We help you implement the data center plan by negotiating contracts, managing the project, relocating data processing services, and consolidating IT assets.
- Data Center Operation. We assess your current state against best practices, benchmark against industry standards, and develop an executable gap analysis to align service delivery with business needs. We also deliver Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning services with the option of integrating both requirements to your data center plan.
Learn more about Advocate Networks’ Data Center RFP process.
To find out how Advocate Networks can help you improve your data center operation, contact us now.
