King Sturge saves £60,000 with mobile management service

Property company uses Orange service to manage its fleet

King Sturge's phones are managed by Orange

Property service company King Sturge saved between £60,000 and £100,000 last year as a result of taking up a new mobile management service provided by Orange, according to King Sturge director of IT David Morris.

Morris said it was difficult to ascertain exactly how much money the company saved, because many of the savings were in staff time.

King Sturge has 22 offices and 1,500 staff in the UK – with 1,300 mobile devices deployed across the company.

It began trialling the Orange service – named Total Resource – in August last year, and adopted the service permanently last month.

The service provides device ordering, provisioning and management, which includes resetting devices for new staff and loading applications onto the handsets. It also includes setting optimum tariffs that look at how much foreign travel the staff member is likely to be doing.

Other services include asset management; billing and cost centre management; reporting and analysis with support to reduce internal queries; as well as network performance monitoring.

Orange also helped streamline a fleet of USB sticks for King Sturge, Morris said: “A number of staff had lost our USB sticks but we were still paying the contract price. Following an audit we were able to disconnect the USB sticks that had been rendered redundant.”

“We also saved money by not re-employing anyone to manage our fleet of phones, obviously having a team of dedicated staff at Orange has meant that our own staff, who would have picked up the work, are free to get on with their jobs.