Bluewater for Higher Education: Maximise value and reduce cost across Mobile Devices, Services and Telecom Expense
Consolidate disjointed data sources to streamline your monthly finance reporting, improve governance, and gain control over your billing.
Assign, manage and report on devices and services for all carriers, users and cost centres, in a single platform.
Easily analyse billing to optimise spend and minimise wastage.
Ingest and consolidate billing from multiple carriers.
Gain visibility over data, and share information between IT and Finance team members and systems.
Integrate with ServiceNow, HR, Finance, and procurement systems.
Manage ordering and MSP requests through customised catalogues and workflows.
Bill Analysis
Consolidate billing from multiple carriers in one platform to easily review monthly spend, link to users and cost centres, and identify optimisation opportunities.
Set up notifications to alert finance when new billing information is received.
Using the powerful ‘What Caused This’ feature, instantly see what’s caused a change in the bill to the previous month. Drill down to understand variances within seconds, and take required actions.
Dynamically allocate costs to multiple cost centres.
Service Management
Manage the relationship of Mobile and Telecom Services between Users (which can be a Person, Location or Function) and Cost Centres. Modern UI, extensive API’s and easy to use bulk update functionality ensures that your information is always up to date for active management and reporting.
In one click, see and update as required Service Profiles including status, linked User and Device, Cost Centre Owner and Cost Centre financial allocation.
Access full activity logs around service profiles and all billing information.
Fast easy access to summary and itemised billing data to efficiently review service spend.
Device Management
In one click get up to date Device Profile including status, device details, linked User and Service, UEM status, Cost Centre Owner, warranty and lease dates.
Customise device status and sub-status categories based on organisation defined labels. Transfer devices and linked services between Users, Cost Centres or Spare Pools.
Streamline device audits and refresh projects by having all the information in the one place.
Link your Buy Back vendor's pricing into your portal to have current device buy back valuations at your finger tips.
Reporting
Fast on-screen search, listing and pre-built reporting to manage all aspects of services and devices within your organisation.
Best practice dashboards such as Top user spend, Potentially redundant services, Data usage, Previous users with services and devices, Cancelled still billed, all help to keep hygiene within your mobile fleet.
Schedule reporting with magic link functionality to make it easy for non-platform users such as Cost Centre Managers or Service Owners to consume information securely.
Cost Allocation
Aggregate all carrier service billing against service profiles and cost centres. Dynamically manage cost allocations to multiple Cost Centres at time of order, or though lifecycle management.
Link Service cost allocations to the User's cost allocation profile. Changes to User automatically flow through to all Services.
Universal capability:
Powerful universal search
Flexible cost allocation models
Rich API framework and Webhooks for integration
Prebuilt ServiceNow connector available in store
Easy to manage bulk update functionality for entity data
Activity logs across all entities for governance
Batch reporting with magic link functionality to simplify non-platform users to consume information securely
Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication
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