Cloud-based telephony solutions are increasingly viable alternatives to platforms such as VoIP and TDM. The shift to UCaaS is a natural progression for many businesses and follows data’s widescale move to the cloud. But there are steps you should take to ensure you not only get the ROI you expect from cloud telephony services, but that you remain in control of your UCaaS spend.
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Why UCaaS is Rapidly Replacing Traditional Telecom Services & What You Need To Do About It
By Sheikh Ali on Mar 18, 2021
Topics: unified communications UCaaS enterprise 2021 trends
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Managing Expenses in the New Blended Work Environment
By Jared Collins on Mar 11, 2021
It's a great bet that you never did any thinking about moving all your employees to work from home before we all had to do so at the start of the COVID pandemic. But have you done any thinking yet about how to best bring some or all of them back to the office when it ends?
Topics: Technology Expense Management telecom expense TEM Internal IT SaaS unified communications UCaaS enterprise
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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
The secret sauce to a great relationship between clients and their technology expense management (TEM) provider is a blending of information, business insight, and interpersonal communication. When these three elements are combined properly, with healthy measures of trust and confidence stirred in, the results are a successful business relationship beneficial to everyone. This is the foundation of promoting a positive, proactive, productive partnership.
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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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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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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Enterprise Comms in a COVID-19 Era: Three Tips for IT, Telecom and Mobility Managers
By Calero-MDSL on Mar 30, 2020
The spread of COVID-19 is having significant implications on organizations as they attempt to navigate diminishing or interrupted supply chains, increased mobile usage across remote employees and bandwidth utilization challenges.
To address these issues, we’ve put together a comprehensive webinar to help you successfully mitigate the potential impacts to your business during this time of uncertainty.