About 25% of an organisation's total IT-budget is spend on connectivity such as mobile communications, fixed telephony, the use of data via WAN/LAN, dark fibre, copper networks and other carriers and solutions for Unified Communications. This can be small with, for example, a KPN ONE-subscription, an internet subscription, a subscription for fixed telephony, hosted PBX and some mobile telephony subscriptions. For multinationals, this can be quite complex with hosting, managed WAN, managed LAN, firewall management, managed Skype, conference calling, video conferencing, (hosted) PBX-management, mobile telephony and M2M-services.
Organisations are facing both technical and contractual challenges when managing all these products and services in-house or outsourced to a service integrator. We can resolve these challenges for you, creating a better ánd cheaper connectivity for your organisation.
Mobile telephony
We have proven ourselves for reducing costs of mobile telephony contracts significantly - these contracts had an average anual value of € 500.000. By executing strong commercial negotiations on behalf our clients (large corporates), we achieved costs savings up to 60%. Since contracts for mobile telephony are usually for 2 years, cost savings can be achieved in a relatively short time.
Fixed telephony
Migrating for fixed telephony is more difficult and comes with substantial costs. Usually, organisations have 5-year contracts in place and we should take into account the existing infrastructure in (old) buildings as well. Waiting for the PBX to reach end-of-life can be delaying the switch to a better use of fixed telephony.
Unified Communications
The use of Unified Communications, like Skype and Google Hangouts, is often actively promoted by HR since using these tools will reduce the physical travel ánd use of mobile telephony of employees. However, a high quality is required for achieving a high user adoption. Therefore, we aim for increasing the "internet-side" of Unified Communications. By using a strong Configuration Management Database (CDMB), we can focus on price when sourcing for new suppliers.
Define the list of markets or countries to be reviewed.
Our audit experts review the data to find exceptions and disputable errors.
Audit of at least 3 months billing data and invoices and optimization of the services.
Our optimization experts review the data to establish which aspects/contracts can be optimized to save money.
Contracts, invoices, CDR data, subscriber report, details of past disputes, details of any exclusion, portal login if available.
Qando presents the results of the audit and optimization to the client for review before managing disputes with the vendors.
Using a great deal of - different - subscriptions, multiple providers, local versus global contracts and fluctuating usage of employees results in a substantial amount of data. This is even more when combined with periodic reports from fixed telephony usage and contracts with suppliers for cloud systems, data centers and other forms of growing cloud storage and bandwidth usage.
Our offer is to execute an opportunity scan. We will analyse all your internal data from mobile, fixed telephony and Unified Communications and present our advice for a better use of technologies and their corresponding providers, suppliers and partners. While doing this, we have a strong focus on cost savings.
Global cosmetics business, 84% savings in the UK achieved with benchmarking and renegotiation of their Vodafone contract.
Global consumer goods, 20 countries, 20% regional savings, multiple RFP, sourcing and benchmarking events.
Global chemical business, 61% savings in Germany, migration from Vodafone to Telekom.
Global e-commerce business, 5 countries, 32% regional savings, multiple RFP, sourcing and benchmark events.
Global pharma business, 65% savings in the UK through benchmarking and sourcing processes.
Global pharma business, 34% savings in Switzerland through renegotiation of their Swisscom contract.
Qando is a procurement agency with great ambitions; we help our clients to achieve a better procurement performance and really excel in their procurement processes. We focus on IT-procurement and procurement software. Passion for the procurement is at the core of our business. Our name stands for 'Quality' (Q) and Originality (O), and our hands-on approach is key ("Can do" mentality).
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