Tips from Songwriting to Build Confidence with an IT Expense Management Solution Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin said, “If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not even be doing it.” Believe it or not, there are tips to be gleaned from the art of songwriting you can use to compose an IT expense strategy with confidence. Including IT expense management in a partner’s technology solution builds a natural confidence in the customer, confirming that they’ve made the right decision to work with you. This piece will break down those four layers of confidence and show you how to can help ..read more

For nearly a decade, Tango has been in existence in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Managed Mobility Services. Back in 2013 when Tangoe first appeared in the Magic Quadrant, Google had just acquired Motorola, T-Mobile merged with MetroPCS, and this is what our website looked like. As trendy companies come and go, nine years of excellence recognized by Gartner’s industry-leading research, represents the stability and industry savvy necessary to help organizations of all sizes simplify, manage, and optimize their managed mobility services in this volatile environment. Visionary Offerings According ..read more

Information Technology is like dancing. Both are conversations, spreading information, beauty, and knowledge. And just like dance, IT requires seamless movement. It takes a lot of work behind the scenes to make it all look effortless. This is especially true when it comes to managing mobile devices. As the leading technology expense and asset management solution, we can help you use the language of dance to address your MMS challenges. One of the best things about dance is that size and scale don’t matter, but coordination does. Similarly, innovative MMS solutions can provide the same level of ..read more

The relationship between humans and technology is often viewed in two very different ways. There’s the kind that every dystopian movie starts with where AI goes rogue and leads a robot army to conquer humans, or there is the movie that stars a robot butler/assistant like Jarvis in the Marvel movies. But the reality of human and technology integration is somewhere in between. From the printing press to modern social media platforms, technology has made things easier for humans. Alternatively, it also breeds the fear that humans may someday be replaced by technology. No matter what side you are ..read more

The need for IT personnel is on the rise, and that is against the backdrop of the Great Resignation. More and more, companies need to develop strategies to keep their best people on their best projects, or risk losing them. The best way to keep good people is to automate the rote tasks that breed displeasure and burnout.   Tangoe recently commissioned ZK Research to conduct a survey of industry professionals to inquire about the following: How the Great Resignation is changing the way companies are thinking about work Why the increased complexity o ..read more

For many of us,  spring marks the beginning of a new season,  , offering a reprieve from the endless gray of winter. Along with warmer weather and longer days, spring brings the opportunity for a fresh start. New flowers, spring cleaning, and a lot of rain to wash away old dirt. Businesses are seeing similar opportunities to get a fresh start with digital transformation.  What is Digital Transformation?  At its base level, digital transformation is the spread of technology through all aspects of a business.  The Gartner Glossary takes a bit of a different tact in defin ..read more

Remote and hybrid work environments are becoming the norm, but before the global coronavirus pandemic that wasn’t the case. A survey from the National Council on Compensation Insurance found that prior to 2020, only 6% of employees worked remotely and close to 75% of employees had never worked remotely. By May of 2020, nearly a third of employees worked from home. That figure looks to be changing soon though if many managers have their way.   Employers and Employees at Odds  Google required employees to be in the office three days a week as of April 4 and Apple began phasing the ..read more

No longer are companies content with an “all-in” approach to manage their business. Today’s organizations are taking stock of the practices they implemented in early 2020, looking at the strategies of either all on-site or all remote, and searching for a new, “third” way of realizing the potential of hybrid work environments.    From Gartner:  The hybrid everything trend applies to all parts of our lives in all industries. It is not limited to hybrid workplace practices. This trend’s biggest challenge is found in an enterprise’s current mindset: that they think they’ve already i ..read more

Cloud technology makes it easier than ever to bypass IT procurement protocols and access solutions needed to satisfy the requirements of your job. IT controls and strict governance practices are usually designed to ensure the organization’s safety, but they are not always aimed at meeting the needs of the  employees that work within these guardrails. This has resulted in shadow IT — the practice of bypassing IT constraints in order to access necessary cloud software services for a functional department.   A recent survey of CIOs by Symantec found that they were wildly underestimated ..read more

Networking technology seems to evolve every ten years or so.  In the early 1990’s it was Frame Relay which evolved into MPLS, since then, SD-WAN has taken over as the networking platform for businesses.  What started as a means to reduce costs by way of leveraging broadband has also resulted in companies gaining flexibility, increased security postures, and deep analytics. SD-WAN allows you to leverage broadband connections at locations that don’t have the bandwidth requirements of a dedicated line.  Moreover, advancements in broadband technology have driven the performance to n ..read more