Inventory, Audit, and Optimization
With zLinq’s Inventory & Audit solution you get a single source of truth for all your telecom assets. Our solution combines an in-depth audit of all telecom services with benchmarking across a deep customer database to identify areas for cost savings and opportunities to modernize your telecom infrastructure.
Benefits and Proof Points
Cost Savings: On average, enterprises overspend by 32% on voice and data services. With a proven roadmap to reducing costs by almost one third, IT Teams can free up budget to invest in other initiatives.
Time Savings: With a complete inventory of your voice and data services, your IT team can focus on core responsibilities and initiatives instead of administrative minutia.
Risk Mitigation: When you know exactly what services you have and where, you are better prepared to respond to emergencies and outages.
Budget Management: Having a real-time overview of every asset under management allows IT Teams to accurately forecast expenditures and reallocate budgets to other missions-critical needs.
Predictable Savings: Our Budget Neutral Guarantee ensures that you’ll always have a positive ROI.
“Our account manager noticed disparate pricing due to recent POTs pricing increases. zLinq then negotiated a flat rate without extending the term and that netted us $124K in annual savings and a 37% cost reduction!”
Virda Beerman Network Manager, Academy Bank
What We Do
Inventory & Audit
Build and audit inventory of services across all locations and providers
Provide services map in our Visualizer tool
Identify billing and contract anomalies and errors
Benchmark service rates and agreements against customer database
Provide “quick win” savings roadmap
Optimization
Implement “quick win” savings roadmap
Identify, review, and resolve billing discrepancies
Provide quarterly savings reports
Research and catalog contract terms & conditions
Complete analog/POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line audit
Our Scope
zLinq works with multi-location enterprises as a vendor-neutral extension of their IT team to manage the full lifecycle of their voice and data assets to solve the challenges of wasted spend, wasted time, and strategic initiative management.
Our Process
Our process is designed to speed time to value and limit effort from our customers.
Service: Customer Service Manager is assigned to your account
Inventory: Build inventory of services across all locations and providers
Benchmarking: Conduct benchmarking of current spend against 1000+ customer database
Audit: Conduct audit of services, check for validity, billing anomalies and errors
Savings Roadmap: Highlight “quick win” savings and strategic, high-level recommendations to maximize long-term savings
Savings Guarantee: If zLinq’s fee is greater than your savings implemented, we will cut you a check to refund the difference.
The zLinq Advantage
Benchmarking: 1,000+ customer benchmarking database, focused on mid-market enterprises
Vertical Specialization: We support clients in multiple industries but have heavy concentration of Banks, Credit Unions, Healthcare and Manufacturing giving us deep understanding of industry-specific challenges
Buying Power: We manage over $3.5M in monthly telecom spend across 350 providers, giving us leverage to negotiate the best rates on your behalf
Purpose-Built Software: Real-time access to your entire telecom asset inventory and cost-savings
Telecom Expertise: Dedicated Customer Service managers average over 15+ years of telecom experience each
Success Guarantee: Our “budget neutral” pricing ensures your savings always exceed our fees – or we cut you a check for the difference