Telecom Spend Trends A Blog About Telecom Expense Management and Telecom Life Cycle Management

30Jan/100

The ROI of Enterprise Video Collaboration

Recently, I did a quick video on Enterprise Video Collaboration for Avaya that talked about some of the high-level benefits video can provide to the enterprise. From a telecom lifecycle management perspective, one of the interesting things I find about video is that as it is implemented as an enterprise communications tool, it will need the same management tools that we currently associate with phone calls.

26Jan/100

IPDR, why does it matter?

IPDR stands for Internet Protocol Detail Record, which is being developed as a set of standards by the TMForum. By providing application, service, location, user, and network-based information about internet usage, IPDR is intended to be used as an enabler for providing and billing next-generation services.

17Dec/090

Rivermine Acquires MBG: mindWireless is the Wild Card

On December 15th 2009, Rivermine acquired MBG, continuing a trend of consolidation in the Telecom Lifecycle Management industry. With this acquisition, Rivermine gained several strong capabilities that have differentiated MBG from the market in recent years.

3Dec/090

Quick Fixes to Cut Telecom Costs

I just published my latest benchmark on telecom lifecycle management (TLM): Quick Fixes to Cut Telecom Costs.As with all the research I write at Aberdeen, it's available for the next eight weeks at no cost because of underwriters that wanted to be associated with the research and cared about the topic: G2 and Tangoe.

23Sep/081

7 months in…

I've been digging into the world of Telecom Expense Management and have written one benchmark report, Slashing Telecom Expenses in a Looming Recession as well as a number of market alerts, sector insights, and analyst insights ranging from mergers to the use of personal cell phones in the workplace to contract negotiation tools.