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The CIO of this nationally-recognized Canadian organization was faced with the prospect of reducing services to Users if he could not achieve a reduction of 20% to his ongoing monthly telecommunications expenditures of $150,000/month. Within the first three (3) months of this corporation’s current fiscal year the IT Department’s spend for monthly telecommunications services exceeded Budget by approximately $25,000/month.
Upon recommendations from a colleague, the CIO agreed to contract TelOptimize to conduct an audit of his department’s telecommunications services, specifically noting that he would require a monthly decrease of approximately $35,000/month for the remaining eight (8) months in order to meet budgetary commitments.
Given the urgency of the situation, TelOptimize quickly gathered all available and necessary data to conduct the audit including recent invoices, all available contracts and Voice and Data network configurations and proceeded to build an inventory of the Client’s Local, LD/TF, WAN, Internet and Wireless services in order to facilitate the analysis.
Within forty-five (45) days TelOptimize prepared and presented a Report to the Client for review and approval. Primary findings included:
Upon approval from the Client and with the Client’s support, TelOptimize spearheaded the negotiation process with the Client’s primary vendor to establish a new consolidated ‘Master Agreement’ with separate Service Schedules for each of the Client’s complete range of services including Local, LD/TF, WAN, Internet and Wireless. The new Master Agreement and the optimization and elimination of unnecessary services reduced the Client’s ongoing monthly telecommunications costs by approximately $40,000/month and effectively re-aligned the Client’s expenditures to budget.