xchange/Razorsight eBook - The Golden Rules for Improving Margins through Network Cost Management

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Selling products and service for which customers beat a path to your door puts a company in an enviable market position. But frittering away a sizeable portion of the revenue from those products and services because of inefficient and redundant processes and practices is simply bad business. This eBook, sponsored by Razorsight and xchange, examines cost management best practices that could help service providers keep more of the money they make. The eBook also features an exclusive Q&A with Razorsight’s CEO Charlie Thomas, who explains how service providers can improve margins while dealing with the challenges and opportunities of next-generation networks and convergence.

Table of Contents

Going Green: Paper Reduction Is a First Step
Despite the substantial contribution telecom makes to carbon emissions overall, the truth is that many service providers in telecom, cable, satellite, media and entertainment will not get involved wholeheartedly in environmental initiatives unless there are compelling economic reasons to do so. For that reason, many companies are starting small and then gauging public reaction and impact to the bottom line.

It's Not Easy Being Green
Jim Henson’s frog-like Muppet Kermit used to complain that “being green” was a challenge. The same could be said for the information and communication technology sector, which consumes more carbon-based fuels than most other industries.

Assessing Networks from a Financial Perch
Seldom has Murphy’s Law been so readily applied. If something can go wrong with your reconciliation and payment processes, it will. And unless it is addressed, that something multiplies and accumulates into millions of dollars of unrealized riches.

Software at Your Service
Software-as-a-service may not be for everyone. But those who cling to the licensed model now in use — about 90 percent of all software sales according to Yankee Group — may one day find themselves in the minority.

How to Optimize Revenues and Margins in a World Characterized by Convergence and Next-Generation Networks
In a conversation with xchange Contributing Editor Tim McElligott, Razorsight’s CEO Charlie Thomas tells how service providers can improve margins while dealing with the challenges and opportunities of next-generation networks and convergence.