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Green Initiatives in Utilities Start with Telecom Lifecycle Management

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June 18, 2010

Green Initiatives in Utilities Start with Telecom Lifecycle Management

By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor


With the number of different telecommunications solutions, vendors and contracts in use throughout larger enterprises, telecom lifecycle management is satisfying a growing demand to control costs. Interestingly, however, some TEM solutions providers do not stop at managing telecom spend as they also provide Utility Expense Management (UEM) to help control electricity, gas, water and sewer charges.


While traditionally there has been a limited ability to directly compare TEM and UEM, trends in corporate telecommunications and energy usage encourage similarities in the analyses of these expenses. The good news is that Best-in-Class TEM implementations provide great lessons for increasing ROI from green initiatives and UEM.

TEM savings can be identified in a number of different elements including telecom audits, centralized service orders and inventory maintenance. UEM savings are traditionally easier to define and as a needed expense, one audit usually served as the ongoing control. Today, deregulation and a new focus on electricity as an expense due to the increasing need for data centers has changed UEM.

Decision makers have to also take into account that Best-in-Class companies are more likely to have specific actionable tasks for establishing cost objectives, gaining a better understanding of the energy requirements of their storage media assets and the necessary data center components that will drive effectiveness and energy efficiency.

Today, both voice and electricity are seen as commodities from a financial standpoint. At the same time, both telecom and electricity are significant expenses that the enterprise wants to lower. In pursuing green policies, companies want to reduce the cost of energy and the cost of storage infrastructure. At the same time, companies are seeking corporate profitability and implement TEM and UEM solutions to accomplish these strategic goals.

In short, both TEM and UEM can drive financially sound green initiatives if there is a formal corporate policy; a formal audit; and expenses are reduced. By examining the TEM marketplace, UEM providers can gain the necessary technological enablers to control the competitive and complex issues.

Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMCnet and has also written for eastbiz.com. To read more of Susan's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Erin Harrison







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