The Cloud 9 Technology Expense Assessment (TEA) program will help you better understand the pricing and terms of your current contracts and invoices, compare them to other competitive providers in the industry, and ultimately find areas for improvement of services, support, and savings.

We’ll thoroughly inspect all recent invoices of all your technology services and look for billing errors, overages, unusual usage and patterns, and any unnecessary charges. Then we’ll uncover any potential overlaps in services, show you places where you can trim services, and other areas that can save money on your all your service provider expenses.

If it turns out that you are getting good value from your current providers, then our audit will give you peace of mind about sticking with them.

If not, we’ll help you find the right vendors and obtain best-in-class pricing for new services.

Additional related services available:

The Cloud 9 Technology Expense Assessment (TEA) program will help you better understand the pricing and terms of your current contracts and invoices, compare them to other competitive providers in the industry, and ultimately find areas for improvement of services, support, and savings.

We’ll thoroughly inspect all recent invoices of all your technology services and look for billing errors, overages, unusual usage and patterns, and any unnecessary charges. Then we’ll uncover any potential overlaps in services, show you places where you can trim services, and other areas that can save money on your all your service provider expenses.

If it turns out that you are getting good value from your current providers, then our audit will give you peace of mind about sticking with them.

If not, we’ll help you find the right vendors and obtain best-in-class pricing for new services.

Additional related services available:

Businesses have a rat’s nest of bills ranging from network, phone, mobile, and everything in between. With complex, cryptic, and hard-to-understand bills, businesses wind up spending far too much money each month on unnecessary telecom and technology expenses that can be reduced or, in some cases, eliminated. But It can be challenging for CFOs to adjust plans and eliminate certain technologies due to limited visibility or insight.

Cloud 9 has access to several vendors in the our Supplier Portfolio that specialize in Telecom Expense Management (TEM). Our only job is to introduce you to these and other vendors then help you discover which one is best for your needs. We have access to TEM experts that can help you get your digital infrastructure ‘house’ in order by assisting you in identifying waste and prioritizing what you need to be using — making it easier to slash costs. 

This exact concept also applies to corporate Mobile/Wireless plans as well. Sometimes referred to specifically as Wireless Expense Management (WEM). 

TEM/WEM companies provide convenient ways to manage dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of bills for your company each month by consolidating everything into one simple pane-of-glass, show analytics and reports on every detail of every bill and simplify all the data to shortened executive summaries. 

These reports will quickly help you uncover overspending, the services will analyze bills for overages, and some can even provide rebill services so you only pay one bill each month for all your technology services. 

There is a lot more these companies can do. Contact us to learn more about these types of companies and find out if they are right for your business. 

Company-provided mobile/wireless plans are easy targets for finding significant savings: with or without changing carriers, contracts, or switching SIMs and devices. Data overages make up, on average, more than 35 percent of a business’ mobile bill. Add to that a complete lack of billing transparency (you can’t tell how your workforce is actually using that data). There are a number of ways to control and eliminate overage penalties. In a previous post I talked about a cloud-base mobile firewall and traffic shaping service that can control usage at the app level and could reduce costs by 20%-30% all while securing the traffic to/from each device as well. 

Another way to reduce costs without switching carriers, plans, or devices is Wireless Expense Management (WEM) services. These services can either be a one time, “project-based” or an ongoing monthly service. Nearly all of them are considered “budget-neutral”, meaning they only get paid a portion of the money they guarantee to save you each month. 

To learn more about the dozen WEM vendors in our portfolio and to help you determine who is best for you contact us by clicking on "Get Started". We'll help you find other clever ways to reduce your tech spend without sacrificing the tech itself. 

How can you reduce that huge Mobile Carrier bill each month for your business? 

Control employee usage. 

How can you manage and prevent employees from blowing through their data limits? 

There are several clever ways to help companies mange, control, and reduce monthly corporate mobile invoices. 

One great way is to deploy a back-end firewall and traffic-shaping service that deploys directly into the mobile carrier’s network. This gives insight to application use and allows IT to manage and limit specific apps and set thresholds to avoid expensive overage penalties without any changes to phones, plans, or SIM cards. These types of services integrate with the mobile carriers directly so there is no reduction in performance of user devices like with other enterprise deployed options.