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Procurement teams face a number of challenges in ensuring goods and services are sourced at the best possible price. Without the tools to analyze technology usage and data across the organization, it is incredibly difficult to fully understand a company’s technology requirements and know what represents a deal that's favorable to the organization.

Large organizations face a number of challenges in improving their telecom environments and increasingly must balance providing reliable, modern technology to end users while keeping costs in check.

MDSL, the leading provider of Technology Expense Management (TEM) solutions will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday March 13^th, entitled TEM Analytics Made Easy.

When it comes to procuring technology, every business wants to get the right product or service at the best price in the shortest possible timeframe.

But the process of selecting the right vendor can be incredibly complex and hard to track. When receiving quotes for goods or services, you need to stay on top of emails, attachments, due dates, expiry dates, upfront costs vs recurring, delivery timeframes. How do you demonstrate due diligence to your management in order to get costs signed off? How can you show your procurement process is effective?

Meanwhile, you’ve got people knocking at your door, wanting to know when the new services will be available.

Nobody likes being stood up.

The same goes for your telecom vendors, but instead of silent treatment and a night on the couch, you can expect late payment charges and the disconnection of key services.

We’ve seen this movie before - a software company pursues rapid growth by buying up competitor solutions, but fails to integrate them properly. Since we’ve seen the movie, we all know how it ends… 

On Tuesday, MDSL hosted its Technology Expense Management User Group at the Hilton Paris Opera. The event brought together clients to network, see the latest developments on the MDSL platform, and influence the product roadmap for 2018. It also provided an opportunity for those considering a partnership with MDSL to get hands on with our solutions and hear from our customers how they are using TEM to achieve efficiency, compliance and visibility over their global technology spend. 

MDSL have won in two categories at this year's AOTMP Telecom Management Industry Awards, receiving both the Business Analytics Award and the Efficiency First® Advocate of the Year Award.

This year’s UK MDM User Group was held at Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London, with representatives from 25 of MDSL’s MDM customers in attendance.

As of mid-June 2017, a new EU roaming Legislation was introduced, known as “Euro-roam “ or “Roam like Home”. This means that while roaming in the EU, your calls, texts and data continue to come out of your domestic allowance.

From this Thursday, 15^th June, EU Mobile operators will no longer be able to charge customers for roaming within the European Union. Under new laws, those traveling in the EU will pay the same rate they would domestically for phone-calls, SMS and mobile internet.

Telecom Management certifying body AOTMP have released their 2017 Ecosystem Edge Report for TEM/WMM Services Vendor Rankings. The report explores both fixed/wireline and mobile/wireless capabilities across 15 key categories.