16 June 2018
A mobile phone for calling and messaging, in tandem with a meeting solution, can meet most employee requirements; potentially saving up to 50% per user per month, says Gartner.
The assertions were made in a research paper: Cost Optimisation: The Mobile Phone Is the Only Phone the Digital Workplace Employee Needs, which was published on on 5 June 2018, by Katja Ruud, Steve Blood, and Rafael A Benitez.
Cost Optimisation is reason to switch from Unified Communications to Mobile-only
Digital workplaces require three essential communications elements: calls, messages and meetings. In an effort to ensure that all employees have access to the necessary productivity tools, enterprises tend to make blanket deployments of features and applications.
In theory, this means that no employee misses out on any corporate applications that may be of use to them. However, in practice, this approach effectively guarantees that some users have more than they need or use. This has three negative impacts:
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Under-utilised applications
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Users who are confused by the applications they do not need
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Wasted costs
A mobile subscription for calling and messaging, in tandem with a meeting solution, can meet most enterprise voice and collaboration requirements. This could mean savings of up to 50% per user per month, compared with the current UC environment.
Identify Users that can be switched to mobile-only
It is crucial that application leaders identify the elements of their workforce that would be most appropriate for a mobile-only strategy, says Gartner.
Replacing UC and fixed voice access with mobile is likely to be more applicable to so-called non-routine or creative work. This could include employees in design, marketing, engineering, sales - any role that is hot-desking or remote-working.
Most organisations will be able to replace UC and fixed voice with mobile solutions to a greater or lesser extent. Further, it is likely that all organisations will be able to take some costs out without compromising functionality. Even in the enterprise profile with lowest percentage of non-routine workers, they still constitute some 25% of the total workforce.
Only buy Mobile Packages that offer unlimited voice plans
Gartner estimates, more than 90% of all enterprise mobile users globally have access to unlimited voice plans and features like messaging and voicemail.
Mobile pricing also continues to decline by about 5% to 10% each year, meaning that the price difference between mobile and fixed line costs continues to narrow. Thus, mobile usage is no longer expensive in real or relative terms compared with competing services. But a failure to purchase unlimited voice plans can compromise cost optimisation.
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