Telecom Expense Management Systems Can Rein in Wired and Wireless Expenditures

Recent research by In-Stat indicates that "Thedepartments and stations. Today's sophisticated call
highest-spending business travelers averaged moreaccounting software offers users the convenience of
than $450 per month spent on wireless services."running reports from any desktop via their browser. A
Enterprises that deploy telecom billing and expenserobust telecom expense management system
management software systems can help rein in wiredprovides the ability to manage and bill Voice over IP
and wireless telecom expenses. Today's calltraffic. Enterprise VoIP call accounting solutions
accounting software will perform telephone usageaccommodate multiple clusters at different locations,
billing to increase revenue, phone call tracking, VoIP callsupport hybrid networks, record and reports on all
accounting, PBX billing, telephone usage monitoring,inbound and outbound, station to station, IP intranet and
corporate bill back, toll fraud detection, and trunk usageexternal gateway calls, and offer hundreds of
analysis and reporting. Typically enterprises wastereporting options. By installing a telecom expense
12-18% of telecom expenditures through a reactivemanagement system enterprises can spend less time
approach to telecom expense management, accordingreconciling carrier telecom bills, improve telephone
to the Aberdeen Group. A full featured call accountingnetwork security, determine telecom expenditures by
system will provide Web access to call detail recordsdivision, and free up administrators' time for use in
(CDRs) and allow users to create customized reportsother critical areas. With the burgeoning usage of VoIP
on the fly, and schedule reports to include a variety ofand wireless networks it is more important than ever
telecom billing information. Reports can be viewed live,for companies to know what they are spending on
saved to a file, or emailed to one or a group oftelecom, to ensure that these expenditures are
recipients, and allow for call accounting to individualproviding maximum advantage to the enterprise.