Imagine providing better service to your executive team faster and with no manual labor? Imagine providing more pricing and billing options to your salesforce without spending weeks or months re-coding your billing module? Now imagine doing all that, yet also saving money for your CFO?

The CIO/CTO/VP Development (whoever is responsible for managing the development team) should be delighted to implement a best-of-breed billing system rather than building a billing module in-house. The CIO not only gets the CFO and VP Sales to stop bothering them about building new billing features, but they get to focus their development team on adding new products and services that can generate additional revenue.

While many developers prefer to build everything themselves, that is no longer a prudent business strategy in today's world of outsourcing, shortened development timelines, and increased competition. By proactively suggesting that the company implement a billing software product or hosted service rather than building (or enhancing) an in-house billing module, the CIO can demonstrate their understanding of today's business climate by suggesting that the development team focus on their core competency -- their own service.

Considering that many IT projects fail to deliver the promised benefits, let alone on-time and on-budget, suggesting that the IT department should implement a billing software product or hosted service rather than undertaking the task of building a complex billing system demonstrates that the CIO is focused on the bigger picture and not just protecting their development budget.

Averum offers our billing system as both a hosted service and a software product. This appeals to CIOs who need to quickly implement a new billing system, but do not have the time, resources or budget to immediately purchase a software product and manage it in-house. Averum's Hosted Edition enables companies to get up and running within days without the up-front investment of purchasing, installing and integrating a software product. Averum's software product provides the option of transitioning from hosted to software according to the CIO's schedule and not the CFO, VP Sales or anyone else.

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