What is the secret sauce to a great vendor-client relationship? What can you (clients) do to ensure lasting positive business relationships? What responsibilities does the vendor have (and conversely you the client)? What can possibly derail or distract teams? What are some common service missteps that other vendors make? How can the client ensure they set realistic goals and expectations? How do you as a team move beyond the tactical and focus on strategic value?
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Building and Maintaining a Strong Relationship with your TEM Vendor and Account Team
By Joan Lara and Kim Warren on Mar 3, 2021
Topics: Technology Expense Management telecom expense managed services telecom audit TEM telecommunications enterprise
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The UCaaS Enterprise Spend Black Hole
By Matt Maloney on Feb 25, 2021
Many enterprises are struggling to understand where they are spending their SaaS dollars from Cloud Communications (UCaaS) solutions such as Zoom, Teams, RingCentral, and Webex to Enterprise SaaS solutions such as Office 365. The result is a potentially large spend black hole that will continue to snowball over time without unified visibility across all of these UCaaS solutions.
Topics: Technology Expense Management telecom expense TEM unified communications UCaaS enterprise
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Importance of In-Region Delivery Support
By Nicola Whiting on Feb 22, 2021
"Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests."
Topics: Technology Expense Management telecom expense TEM unified communications enterprise
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Doing More with Less in Financial Services
By Alistair Brooker, John Bean, Barbara Furey & Michael Meadows on Feb 19, 2021
As in almost all businesses, the rule for financial services firms, including banks, insurance, and other financial products, is to do more with less, mainly less personnel.
Topics: Technology Expense Management Financial Technology Management Managed Mobility Services telecom expense TEM mms
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The Next Evolution of Service for Technology Organizations: An Interview with the New Calero-MDSL EVP of Operations, Patrick Mulvehill
By Andrew Taylor and Patrick Mulvehill on Feb 4, 2021
Summary:
- Patrick Mulvehill joins Calero-MDSL in January 2021 as EVP, Operations
- Patrick brings 20 years of leadership across operations, technology, and business process improvement
- His leadership style focuses on continuous improvement and development of people
- Cross functional leadership collaboration drives his strategic planning
Topics: Technology Expense Management information technology TEM IT innovation calero-mdsl enterprise service patrick mulvehill
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Healthcare Information Technology: Digital Transformation Becomes Vital
By Illya Granger and Jessica VanVorst on Feb 3, 2021
“Rush” is responsible for creating more errors, more waste, and more frustration than most anything else. And much of what happens in a busy healthcare environment is done “stat”, in a rush.
Topics: Technology Expense Management TEM IT digital transformation mms healthcare
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2021 and the Rise of UCaaS
By Sheikh Ali on Jan 28, 2021
Remote work and digital communications took center stage in 2020. As we start the new year on a more hopeful path, businesses must now focus on managing spend and consumption of the Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams they added to support remote collaboration.
Topics: Technology Expense Management TEM SaaS unified communications UCaaS
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Calero-MDSL Appoints Patrick Mulvehill as Executive Vice President of Operations and Announces Service Centers of Excellence
By Stephanie O'Malley on Jan 20, 2021
Company Continues to Invest in its Global Service Delivery Capability
Topics: Technology Expense Management News Company News TEM calero-mdsl service centers of excellence patrick mulvehill
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Telecom: It’s the New Rent!
By Renee Harwood, Crystal Tofari, and Janelle Sammut on Jan 19, 2021
Clearly, the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the retail sector more severely than any other. Many major retailers are halving their 2021 forecasts and closing store locations at a record pace. Those who have attempted to persevere have found fewer and fewer customers patronizing their stores.
Topics: Technology Expense Management Managed Mobility Services telecom expense TEM telecommunications retail ecommerce
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Managing International Vendor Relationships and Negotiating Favorable Agreements
By Calero-MDSL on Jan 4, 2021
Technology Expense Management (TEM) starts delivering value to clients far sooner than many might expect.
Topics: telecom expense TEM telecommunications Automation TrueSense benchmarking telecom benchmarking
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Best Practices for Managing Remote and Global Teams
By Billy Howes & Nicole Whiting on Dec 21, 2020
It may be that pandemics end up teaching us much about how to most effectively manage global teams, greatly deepening our understanding, our appreciation, and our effectiveness in using today’s telecommunications technologies.
Topics: Technology Expense Management TEM digital transformation unified communications communications enterprise 2021 trends remote
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Calero-MDSL Gains Acceptance onto the UK G-Cloud 12 Framework UK Government Organizations Enabled with Cost Savings Solutions
By Stephanie O'Malley on Dec 15, 2020
Calero-MDSL, a leader in the high-growth Technology Expense Management (TEM) software space, announced today that it has gained acceptance onto the UK government’s G-Cloud 12 Framework. Now on its 12th iteration, the G-Cloud Framework has opened up the market to IT suppliers of all sizes, enabling the UK government to more easily make the right technology and services investments from the right providers at the right price.