Strategic Sourcing Unified Communications

Strategic Sourcing for Unified Communications

Corcentric provides the people, processes, tools, and technologies to help your organization strategize, plan, implement, and maintain the best Unified Communications services and providers.

Success in today’s world of social, mobile, and cloud technologies requires businesses to manage communication whether synchronously, asynchronously, formally, or informally. With Unified Communications, businesses seek to standardize and support the communications channels and services used by every employee.

Corcentric can help you find the right service providers to manage all these channels and more:

• Email
• Calendaring
• Document sharing
• Desktop experiences
• Chat
• Mobile apps
• Softphones
• Conference calling
• Video conferencing

The best-managed companies know that an ad-hoc approach to purchasing for communications will not provide a foundation for success. But when companies’ own resources are stretched thin focusing on direct spend initiatives, or when companies need benchmarking to gauge the competitiveness of their agreements, what recourse do they have?

Corcentric’s experts in sourcing for Unified Communications have the answers. We’ll help you manage your organization’s spend in this complex category and ensure you obtain the right solutions for improving productivity and responsivenes while also reducing costs. Let Corcentric’s Unified Communications sourcing experts guide you through critical activities such as:

• Developing a UC plan
• Assessing your current communications portfolio
• Developing UC requirements
• Conducting gap analyses
• Translating UC requirements into a sourcing strategy
• Identifying UC service providers
• Executing RFPs
• Evaluating bids
• Negotiating with bidders or incumbents
• Monitoring for compliance

Our Unified Communications sourcing experts understand the importance of security and support within these critical enablers of business. Managing the technology that enables your business should not be a burden, and you need assurance that your solutions are secure and operable.

Rely on Corcentric’s decades of negotiating and implementing best-in-class contracts to ensure your Unified Communications service providers meet your business needs. Contact our Unified Communications sourcing experts today.