Any idea of how employees use their mobile: what the personal vs. the business spend is and what the percentage roaming, data, SMS and international costs are? The annual Ezwim Telecom Monitor provides some real answers. A statistical analysis among Ezwim’s Telecom Expense Management user base offers an accurate and clear picture of how the corporate mobile is being used.
Industry analyst Informa released some figures showing that mobile phone sales is forecasted to slow significantly in developed markets and will not exceed 2% CAGR, smartphones are predicted to represent the major growth area. Informa thinks revenues from smartphone sales will represent over 55% of total market value in North America, Western Europe and Japan. Looking forward, it is becoming clear that, in these regions, handset vendors can no longer rely on mobile phone sales to sustain growth. They have to look at content creation and service offerings and product differentiation will increasingly shift from hardware to software.
MANASSAS, Va., Nov 20, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Telecom Expense Management Industry Association (TEMIA), the premiere organization for the telecom expense management industry, announced today the appointment of Joe Basili as Managing Director. This appointment highlights TEMIA’s deep commitment to grow the association, raise awareness of the values and benefits of TEM solutions, further its mission of optimizing the telecommunications supply chain, and help organizations achieve ideal results from TEM programs.
“Joe brings a background that is well suited for this work with more than 20 years experience in marketing, launching and growing new businesses, and developing research for the TEM market. He also brings positive relationships with existing members, potential new members, enterprises, and analysts,” stated Dave Spofford President of TEMIA.
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The Canalys quarterly global smart phone shipments update shows some very interesting developments;
Many organizations are in the midst of their annual budgeting and planning cycles for 2009, cost reduction programs have become the key priority in order the weather the current economic crisis. Telecom is a top 3 expense category with MNC’s spending 1.500 – 4.000 $ per employee per year.
To help enterprises survive the current economic meltdown. Gartner offers help by means of 25 tactical tips for the CIO to cut IT costs. In the cost category Networks & Telecom Gartner recommends Telecom Expense Management Services to cut costs by 10%-35%.
The recent economic downfall faced by enterprises around the world force companies to be more cost conscious. Telecom costs has traditionally been a top expense category and with enterprise telecom costs rising every year it is time to take control of what enterprises are paying for.
Aberdeen published an interesting report, based on 4,500 respondents, stating that a potential recession is a top business challenge for companies in 2008. This economic trend forces enterprises to re-examine their top expenses and identify overhead.
The annual EVUA members survey 2008 – conducted by Ovum – is out and shows that cost management remains a major area of concern. The need to manage mobile data is increasingly important as mobile data grows rapidly as is visibility of costs across the board.
The Current Analysis report titled “Mobilising the Enterprise: The Real Costs and Complexities” highlights the problem enterprises are facing of having little control over mobile cost and the struggle to understand and manage this. The report is a synopsis of some of the themes at a recent EVUA event.
