New Research: Fully Outsourced IT Expense Management Costs 5X Less, Delivers Faster Results for Business Innovation
Fully outsourced IT Expense Management (ITEM) solutions deliver faster results at a cost five times less, according to a new Vanson Bourne study commissioned by Tangoe, the leading expense and asset management solution for over two decades.
"As sprawling technologies and inflation consume larger proportions of corporate IT budgets, business leaders are growing increasingly concerned about their ability to sustainably innovate, including tracking spending, governing expenses, and stretching their IT budgets," said Becky Carr, chief marketing officer at Tangoe. "FinOps programs mature quickly and yield faster time to insights and savings when leveraging a managed solution."
The study surveyed 500 IT and finance decision-makers from the US and the UK to explore their IT expense management practices. The research explored three approaches to IT expense management: fully in-house, fully external (third-party solution), and hybrid (a mixture of in-house and external solutions).
"AI can trigger unpredictable cloud costs, which is why ITEM software and services are being used to ensure innovation doesn't drive a hidden layer of technical debt," said Carr.
The findings spotlight the complexity of IT financial management and what's at risk without it:
When it comes to tech sprawl there's no end in sight. Respondents predict double-digit spending increases over the next couple of years with cloud infrastructure (20%) and software (16%) investments leading the way. Additional investments in mobile and telecom technologies aren't far behind.
Business continuity and operational performance are at stake. Late payments cause 85% of organizations to experience outages in their cloud, mobile, and telecom services.
Managing services and expenses is growing increasingly complex. On average organizations handle 39 IT service providers with 60-80 employees involved in overseeing them.
Data analytics are among the top three challenges for in-house ITEM programs. Given the growing number of cloud applications and mobile devices in use today most companies can't get past the first, most basic phase ? applying advanced analytics and turning data into actionable insights.
The Value of a Fully Managed Service
In addition to putting context around the urgency and challenges associated with financial management, the study also reveals the advantage of using a fully managed service for IT expense management:
Businesses with either a fully outsourced or hybrid solution experience process efficiency and productivity gains (90%), faster time to business insights (88%), and faster time to cost savings (88%).
Only 66% of in-house programs deliver results within the first month, while 81% of fully outsourced solutions deliver results within the same timeframe.
Ninety-four percent (94%) of organizations using a third-party to manage ITexpenses, also have a dedicated FinOps practice. Additionally, having a FinOps program leads to 20-28% lower spending across cloud infrastructure and cloud software.
The faster a company can find new ways to save and capitalize on those opportunities, the more money it can save to offset the cost of an ITEM service or reinvest into overstretched IT budgets. Eliminating manual processes and ingesting information with AI automation are essential to reducing the administrative work of data compilation and speeding up the time to savings. Fully managed services can make a meaningful difference by helping clients both find opportunities and act on them.
About Tangoe
Tangoe is the leading technology expense and asset management solution. Tangoe seamlessly integrates with hundreds of providers globally to deliver the reporting and insights needed by enterprises of all sizes and scales. Fueled by an innovative automation framework and unified customer experience, Tangoe optimizes spend and resources across telecom, mobile, cloud, and IoT. For more information on the power of Tangoe and how it can transform your business, visit www.tangoe.com or connect with the company on LinkedIn and X.
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