Smartbill to Sponsor Technology in Government 2015

Sydney, June 22, 2015:  Smartbill®, the leading communications expense management and analytics specialist, will sponsor the Technology in Government 2015 conference to be held in Canberra, Australia on August 4-5, 2015.

As part of its leadership in usage analytics, Smartbill has been selected to lead discussions in expense management approaches in public agencies. As the region’s leading technology event for the public sector, hundreds of agency leads, CIOs and general managers from over a dozen of the region’s governments will participate in a series of workshops, keynotes, and networking activities at the National Convention Centre Canberra.

Smartbill will lead roundtable discussions on Controlling ICT Expenses in 21st Century Government, as well as covering Smartbill’s experience of using usage analytics to unify complex expense management of telecoms, IT, utilities and other expense areas.

“Smartbill has proven experience with multiple governments in bringing the latest technology to help correctly manage and secure traditional fixed voice and data connections, mobile devices, cloud services and IT assets,” explained Sam Ayad, President and CEO of Smartbill. “Today Smartbill has over $350 million of spend under management and our analytics systems process over 5 million usage events per week.”

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Smartbill’s solutions include software and service packages that manage and analyse each connection point of the agency, with full reporting capabilities and real-time insights to help decision makers boost productivity, security and efficiency. The company also offers outsourced services ranging from historical bill and contract auditing to mobile fulfilment and procurement that will ease the way for agencies to adopt an integrated communications management strategy.

One of the conference participants, Nick Barry, Director of Government Sales at Smartbill, explained that “Government agencies are facing even bigger demands to reduce costs and boost efficiency, but also have very specific data security needs. Smartbill is information security certified under ISO27001. We have worked with high-security government agencies for many years and understand their specific needs around information security and data sovereignty in particular.”

About Smartbill

Smartbill manages the communications of businesses and governments. Smartbill’s solutions procure, secure, assist, control and govern over 500,000 devices and connections for large organisations in the East Asia and Pacific region. Large enterprises and governments trust Smartbill to manage all aspects of their communications assets, usage and expenditure, to simplify their operations, improve service and contain cost. www.smartbill.com.au

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