Telecommunications services strategic planning from Advocate Networks delivers a detailed roadmap for our client to follow. It includes options, risk analyses and recommendations for sourcing, technology, optimization, and planning initiatives. This roadmap can reduce costs, procure telecom services, and help plan for network and mobile optimization as part of an overall telecommunications management plan for your company. The Advocate Networks roadmap can serve as a basis for pending network technology migrations or transformations. The scope of this service includes all mobile and fixed-line communications services. More than 200 enterprise clients have benefited from telecommunications services strategic planning from Advocate Networks.
Telecommunications Technology Planning Advocate Networks has the comprehensive technical and operational skills to drive a strategic technology plan from initial assessment to final implementation. By reviewing your technology needs and evaluating the functionality, costs, and potential savings of various systems, Advocate Networks can create a technology planning roadmap to solve any communications challenge.
Technology planning is most beneficial when linked with sourcing planning. The best time to transition technology is at the end of a carrier contract, when leverage is highest. And there is no better time to plan for such changes than when the current telecommunications infrastructure is intimately known via a telecommunications inventory assessment. In these cases, a request for proposal (RFP) can also act as a request for information (RFI).
Telecommunications Optimization Planning
The detailed Advocate Networks Book of Business* inventory of services we create during the telecommunications inventory assessment phase highlights your opportunities to effectively execute telecommunications cost management. This allows Advocate Networks to develop a detailed optimization strategy to reduce and avoid unnecessary telecom costs. Historically, Advocate Networks telecom cost management optimization projects have yielded at least 20 percent annual savings for clients in communications expenses.
Telecommunications Policy Planning
As telecommunications optimization opportunities are discovered, governance and policy issues may surface. For example, policies could be needed to regulate the types of wireless plans and devices allowed by job title or level. Wireless disconnect verification procedures may need to be standardized. It is important to develop or improve corporate governance policies so that all personnel involved understand your company’s legal, management, and cost containment parameters. Telecom consulting from Advocate Networks can help you create policies that promote employee productivity while protecting you from waste and liability.
Telecommunications Sourcing Planning
Based on the Advocate Networks telecommunications contract analysis and Book of Business (a representation of the client’s inventory and telecom profile), sourcing options are graded and presented. These options can range from direct negotiations with select carriers (usually an incumbent) as either a mid-term or end-of-term agreement, to a “request for” market event, such as request for proposal (RFP) or request for quotation (RFQ).
*The Advocate Networks Book of Business was developed to capture the client’s current communications service inventory, present current and future client requirements to qualified bidders, and accurately and efficiently create decision analysis to be used in strategic sourcing events. The Book of Business is a proprietary toolset developed and owned by Advocate Networks, made available exclusively to our clients during competitive sourcing projects.