“Your deliverables were exactly as I requested, and the information provided in your analysis will allow me to best manage the telecommunications expenditures at Mirant. Based on your recommendations, we have implemented changes that will reduce our telecommunications costs by $1.5 million over 3 years.”

Bob McClure,
Vice President, CIO,
Mirant Corporation

The Benefits of Regular Wireless Optimization

By Rob Stewart, Managing Consultant,
Enterprise Consulting, Advocate Networks, LLC

Advocate Networks routinely provides enterprise clients with assessments of their wireless voice and data spend. Just as routinely, we find that without effective, ongoing management of wireless devices, wireless spend creeps rapidly out of control. In many cases, wireless expenses rival those of Wide Area Network costs, which means that clients are effectively providing an expensive "overlay" network to their carefully designed WAN!

We recently identified savings of 52 percent of a client's $1.3-million wireless spend, just in optimization opportunities.

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Lower Your Communications Costs Month After Month

It’s no surprise that more than half of large organizations don’t know their exact communications spend. Monthly fixed and mobile telecom invoices are detailed, complex and, for some companies, hundreds pages in length.
Manual processing of telecom invoices has become virtually impossible for many organizations, with the average mid-market enterprise receiving more than 300 invoices per month. The intricacies of ever-changing inventory, hundreds of thousands of rate plans, and complex terms and conditions result in “rubber-stamped” invoices that incur penalties due to late payments. With Aberdeen estimating that 7 to 12 percent of all communications invoices are in error, clearly businesses are leaving money on the table.

Advocate Networks provides a portfolio of Telecom Expense Management services that allow companies to gain control of their telecommunications expenses and inventory, drive down their total telecom cost – all without the administrative costs associated with maintaining in-house staff and systems. A single monthly fee gives you access to our TEM experts and a wide range of services for optimizing your telecom environment including...

Advocate Networks Managed Services are powered by Tangoe, the industry’s leading TEM software platform. Tangoe, Inc., a global leader in communications lifecycle management solutions, provides software and technology-enabled services that help global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed, mobile, and converged communications assets and their costs. Tangoe’s software and service solutions are built upon patented technologies that enable dramatic cost reductions and productivity improvements, which significantly contribute to organizational profitability. Global 2000 organizations worldwide depend on Tangoe solutions to more effectively manage their telecommunications processes and their associated costs.

Engagements require no capital investment or staff retooling. Your service plan can be up, running and delivering solid return on investment in a matter of weeks.

To find out how Advocate Networks can provide a telecom expense management solution for your company,