How Much Money Do You Waste on Mobile Devices Every Month?

Mobile devices are expensive, but what if you were paying twice as much as you need to for your company voice and data plans? Mobile expense management company Xigo found the following results in a survey of its customers:

The takeaway from these examples is that most companies don't have a suitable mobile expense management solution in place. That's because these solutions are very cumbersome, often take months to implement, require you to give a lot of sensitive information to a vendor, and are also very expensive. As a result, mobile and telecom expense management products are generally only used by large-scale enterprises. (Related: More Options in Mobile Device Management: Telecom Expense Management and Cloud-Based)

Xigo, rebranded from the company Invoice Insight, is offering something different. Xigo offers a free mobile expense management solution, Xigo Now. As the video below shows, you can upload a carrier bill to Xigo and within minutes, have recommendations for how you can cut costs.



There are also paid products available, Xigo Pro and Xigo Enterprise. These solutions offer additional features such as:

David Snow, chief marketing officer of Xigo, confirms that mobile expense management is largely unused in the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market and even among some enterprises. "The Fortune 500 is pretty sharp on both sides of the equation–they understand the expense and the operational management issues for mobility pretty well. It's the exception that has nothing on either side. But, for the vast majority of the market, especially for the SMB market, MDM is just recently cropping up as an exposure, not just from a security perspective but really a new definition of network edge that wasn't well planned from the beginning. And on the expense side, it is in my mind, very rich territory," said Snow. "The amount of money that organizations are wasting is huge, with both corporate-liable devices and the 'bring your own devices' that they subsidize with reimbursements and stipend plans. Once you're in any of those three situations, there's enough money in play and a tendency to overprovision or overspend—once you know that a company will reimburse you, the very first thing you're going to do is make sure you get that unlimited plan."

If you're supporting more than a few mobile devices in your organization, there's really no reason not to take a few minutes and see if Xigo Now can save you money. Visit the company's website to learn more.

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