Cost Management
The power to better manage your costs at a glance!
As your business keeps growing, it becomes harder to escape the ever increasing layers of complexity that are added to your telecommunications bill. To minimise the confusion, you can subscribe to Cost Manager.
Learn about some recent enhancements designed to make Cost Management even better.
You'll get access to a web-based bill reporting and analysis solution that transforms your monthly statements into insightful business intelligence.
- View current and previous months' statements
- View predefined or customised reports focused on areas of interest
- Track and forecast spend
- Understand your calling patterns
- Monitor use and misuse of your Telecom products, e.g. identifying the most expensive calls
- Manage and allocate costs across your business units (in minutes)
Take advantage of Cost Management smart features to analyse business products and services that appear on your Telecom bill, including calling, mobile and data.
Cost Management Product Suite
The Cost Management Product Suite enables business clients to analyse their Telecom bill online, delivering visibility and options to manage their telecommunications costs. The following 3 packages make up the Cost Management Product suite:
- Cost Manager Summary - Suitable for small to medium sized customers, this standard feature enables a single user to consolidate accounts and run a set of standard reports
- Cost Manager Monthly - Suitable for most Gen-i clients, Cost Manager Monthly is an advanced version of Cost Manager Summary. It enables the user to perform in-depth analysis of their monthly telecommunications costs with additional functionality like report ordering, sales calling performance
- Online Invoice - This can replace the existing Telecom paper bill. This will be set up as the default option for new customers to Telecom and Cost Management Products. In the case of existing Cost Management customers, there will be the option to retain their paper bill or take the Online Invoice. By law, we are unable to deliver both the PDF Invoice and the Paper Invoice
Check out the differences between each package using the table below.
What's included
The table below illustrates the key features available on the Cost Manager Products.
| Feature | Cost Manager Summary | Cost Manager Monthly |
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| Access to multiple accounts |  |
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| Drill down into individual call detail records from Summary reports | |
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| Summary reporting in table or graph format | |
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| Export statements to PDF and CSV formats | |
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| Fixed and Mobile Data available | |
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| Outbound call records reporting only | |
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| PDF Invoice | |
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| Additional report online storage (Chargeable add on) | |
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| Bespoke Reporting (Chargeable add on) | |
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| Training (Chargeable add on) |  |
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| Hierarchy creation for cost allocation reporting | |
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| Hierarchy creation reporting | |
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| Create personalised reports (both Summary and Detailed reports) | |
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| Multiple user access | |
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| Monthly (post bill) call data | |
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More benefits
Help with key business decisions
Tired of receiving multiple pages (or boxes) of information that is complex to understand? Turn your billing data into vital business intelligence for informed decision making. The data mining and reporting capabilities found in the Cost Management Product suite give you unprecedented insight into your expenditure. Track exactly what's happening in your organisation with the press of a button, and use this information to make changes to save your business money.
Help with financial assessment
See at a glance how much (and where) you are spending money. With instant access to your information 24/7, the Cost Management Product suite give you a cost effective and efficient way to manage your telecommunications spend. Simplify your reconciliation process with automated statements and reports. What's more, this web based application is easily integrated into your existing business processes.
To find out more about Cost Manager Summary and / or Cost Manager Monthly, register now.
