BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Apr 12, 2011) - How do companies successfully cut telecom, network, and wireless costs by 20% or more without reducing service levels? Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (
Companies seek to meet the contrasting challenges of quickly implementing technologies requested by the business, providing high quality services, and doing it cheaply. Best-in-Class organizations, defined as the top 20% of organizations in quantitative performance in this study, have mastered this balance by achieving over 80% of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) while reducing overall telecom and network spend by over 20%. In contrast, the bottom 30% of organizations only saw a 3% reduction and met less than 15% of their SLAs.
"Enterprises seek clarity on how to balance the financial and technical needs of the organization to optimize employee productivity," said Hyoun Park, research analyst, Aberdeen. "By showing how companies have successfully controlled sourcing, management, and support for emerging technologies ranging from unified communications to mobility and cloud services, this research provides a future-facing model for lifecycle management that takes modern enterprise communications technologies into account."
By studying how these Best-in-Class companies compare to all others, this report provides a current and realistic perspective on the strategies, processes, and technologies that currently make a difference in 2011.
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