Every day enterprises ask an age old question: are we sufficiently profitable? If the answer is yes, then the company will think of ways to maintain and increase their revenue and if the answer is no, then the company will look for ways to improve their bottom line profitability. This usually begins with cutting costs. […]
Many enterprises pay their mobility bills without really having a handle on their expenses, subscribers or consumption. These oversights are costing companies millions of dollars a year. In fact, for many organizations, mobile assets are growing faster than they can track. It’s no wonder mobility is costing companies money they don’t even know about. In
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The need to manage mobile data security is increasing. Complexities, penalties and damages from failing to address this critical area are also rising. ETMA members span many different business models and service offerings, but despite the diversity of our organization, data security is one concern that we all share. The following statistics highlight the growing need
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As time passes, enterprise mobility continues to become more complex. Cybersecurity threats are growing more advanced with each passing day, so how is mobile security evolving and changing to keep sensitive program data safe?In recent years, mobile security software has undergone multiple transformations to minimize the damage done by today’s threats. What started as Mobile
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Bills can tell you a lot about what services you use and how much each service costs. Businesses often look to lower overall payments, but as enterprise’s telecom networks become more complex, this can be difficult to accomplish. There are three telecom expenses that you may be missing which can impact organizations. ONE. Recurring Payments
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Accurate IT and telecom inventory is critical for Technology Expense Management (TEM) success because it provides a baseline of information to validate items on bills and produce cost savings. What should a TEM inventory include? A TEM inventory consists of any item that appears on an invoice or customer service record (CSR) for a mobile or fixed
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Network connections with IoT, M2M and other applications will have lower incremental costs compared to smartphones, but there will be a huge increase in volume which enterprises need to manage. The Internet of Things (IoT) have overtaken mobile phones as the largest category of connected devices. Managing this exponential volume places a premium on more efficient systems to track
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Many articles take positions on the virtues and perils of Bring Your Own Device to work (BYOD), but what exactly is BYOD? Does it just apply to smartphones? Does it include all devices including laptops? What about applications and cloud services? Should the acronym be BYO or Bring Your Own? Chris Marsh of Yankee Group
Wireless Expense Management (WEM) programs are a special category of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) programs with a focus on wireless services and mobile devices. The goals for WEM programs are similar to TEM programs. They seek to proactively reduce expenses, establish new operational efficiencies, increase visibility and provide better control for mobile voice and data
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TEM programs once concerned themselves specifically to the telecom lines and bills of an enterprise. As the telecommunications world has expanded so has the discipline, sub-practices and a host of acronyms that now fall under the umbrella of TEM. ETMA has introduced the term Telecommunications Management to convey all the activities that enterprises manage as
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