The cloud cost management guide: Tips from a CIO

Generally, traditional on-premises environments are more costly to implement and maintain, simply because you are 100% responsible for every aspect of it. Hardware, maintenance, upgrades… Unlike with SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions which can provide some load balancing, you don’t have a vendor who will take on the brunt of that upkeep and work.

If your organization’s overall cloud spend is a major concern, you may consider a chargeback model where you’d bill the cost of software to your internal teams who use those cloud services. That means the budget for that tool comes out of that particular business unit or department and they have to account for it in their quarterly or annual spend.

Dialpad also has an open API so that organizations can easily build custom automations with niche or “homegrown” tools.

Even the way Dialpad’s unique dual-cloud infrastructure is set up is designed to be cost-efficient. For example, it does not have the most data centers out of all the telephony providers out there—but they are the most efficient, meaning it can provide the same, if not better, audio and video quality… With fewer data centers. Learn more about Dialpad’s global voice network.

See how Xero, with over 1,400 employees and 17 offices globally, saved $500,000 in annual telephony costs with Dialpad.