WÄRTSILÄ RELIES ON EZWIM S TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE COST CONTROL AND COST SAVINGS WITH THE HELP OF EZWIM TECHNOLOGY.

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1 Ezwim Case study WÄRTSILÄ RELIES ON EZWIM S TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE COST CONTROL AND COST SAVINGS WITH THE HELP OF EZWIM TECHNOLOGY. ABOUT WÄRTSILÄ Wärtsilä is a global leader in complete lifecycle power solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasizing technological innovation and total efficiency, Wärtsilä maximizes the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2012, Wärtsilä s net sales totaled EUR 4.7 billion with approximately 18,900 employees. The company has operations in nearly 170 locations in 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, Finland. GLOBAL LEADER IN TEM TECHNOLOGY

2 THE CHALLENGE Wärtsilä, a global market leader in complete Telecom expenditure represents significant lifecycle power solutions for the marine and costs for Wärtsilä s IT department. It was energy markets, became aware in 2010 that clear from both an operational as well as a they lacked insight into their total financial point of view that they would telecommunication usage and costs. They benefit from smart tooling. Additionally, knew there was a potential to realize targeted consultancy services could bring substantial savings in their telecom costs, immediate savings. they just did not know how to get that data out in the open. Wärtsilä needed to transform their telecom management into a process that: Generates clear and detailed reports Monitors corporate telecom policies Reduces effort and optimizes workflows Improves on going telecom management processes Provides insight into costs and usage across the company Enhances cost awareness among employees 2 ezwim case study

3 THE SOLUTION Ezwim, the Global Telecom Management With the help of the Ezwim Service leader, enabled Wärtsilä to gain visibility Management (ESM) module, Wärtsilä s and control over their telecommunications, end-users are now able to automate the assets and cut mobile spending by 25% ordering of usage-based bundles to during Ezwim s Expense Management optimize their own subscriptions. dashboard solution provided the management teams with the information With the help of the Ezwim Business they needed to take action. Intelligence module Wärtsilä and Ezwim can create what if scenarios which help to The Ezwim Expense Management tool make better decisions for future scenarios creates a flexible overview of a company s based on historical data. In addition, the telecommunications spend in detail, role-based user policies, specific workflows ranging from the individual users up to the (MACD) and support of Wärtsilä in contract corporate level and business units. optimization have helped Wärtsilä achieve continuous levels of optimization. 3 ezwim case study

4 With Ezwim s help, Wärtsilä is now able to manage the growing complexity of telecommunications more efficiently. We chose Ezwim because they are a proven and flexible partner who delivers the necessary technology and services a company needs to identify high spending areas which can lead to significant cost reductions. We strongly recommend the Ezwim solution to decision makers within national and international enterprises. Ab van der Vegte, Solution Manager, Wärtsilä 5 ezwim case study

5 THE BENEFITS The Wärtsilä case was a good fit for us because we were able to move from our SaaS services into actual hands and eyes. The cost optimization results with Wärtsilä where achieved because of the cooperation between both organizations. Regular meetings led to more efficient processes and a fitting price plan. Each meeting literally helped our client save money. Bram Cool, Managing Director, Ezwim Ezwim helped Wärtsilä to realize a number High level reporting of improvements with its professional Advanced telecom trend reports for Telecom Management toolset, including: senior management which has considerably helped improve Wärtsilä s Centralization of all telecom assets Complete overview of all Wärtsilä s telecom costs and assets in one user-friendly interface. Up-to-date administration Understanding of macro and microtelecom cost developments across the organization, cost-centres and end-users. Cost awareness increase Wärtsilä s employees have access to their insights into telecom management through use of Ezwim Business Intelligence (EBI). Automated telecom processes Saving time and money by optimizing telecom processes that create an improved user experience and enables employees to adjust their subscription easily based on their usage. personal telecom spend and corporate Cost savings telecom policy, which enhances cost This insight into the organization awareness and helps employees to take resulted in a 25% saving on the total responsibility for their own telecom telecom spend. usage. 4 ezwim case study

6 ABOUT EZWIM GLOBAL Ezwim is the European market leader for Our solutions are provided in over 44 Telecom Management Technology. Ezwim countries and available for over 150 carriers. was founded on a simple but powerful idea: Ranging from Telecom Management organizations should have complete control applications to Telecom business process over their mobile and fixed communications outsourcing we can deliver wherever you assets and costs, with the ability to adminis- require. Ezwim is a privately held company ter their telecom infrastructure seamlessly and globally. with headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has presence in: Ezwim empowers customers to implement their telecom innovation strategies easily, globally and independently, while keeping costs under control. Ezwim maintains a market leader position by delivering The Netherlands USA France Belgium end-user centric, intuitive technology and services and has been recently recognized by Gartner by providing the highest levels of customer satisfaction across the industry twitter.com/ezwim linkedin.com/ezwim +31 (0) / +1800EZWIM facebook.com/ezwim