Bruin

Introducing Bruin, the telecom expense management and optimization solution offered by Bruin Group, LLC. According to the vendor, Bruin provides detailed insight into phone, data, and software expenditures across vendors, helping enterprises of all sizes save money by eliminating unneeded accounts and rightsizing plans. This software is utilized by finance professionals, operations managers, IT managers, telecom managers, and various industries including retail, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and transportation companies.

Key Features

Visibility: According to the vendor, Bruin offers detailed insight into phone, data, and software expenditures across vendors. It aims to help businesses save money by eliminating unneeded accounts and rightsizing plans. The software also allows users to investigate any ledger entry.

Optimization: Bruin provides full vendor integration, ticketing, and employee profiles for unified telecommunications device management. The vendor claims that businesses can easily add new locations with bundling and one-step setup.

Innovation: According to the vendor, Bruin is a powerful yet simple telecom expense management software. It includes a finance module for controlling telecommunications spend and an operations module for full visibility and control over devices and services.

Automated data import: The vendor states that Bruin offers an easy way to migrate from current expense management software. The Bruin team handles all the importing, sorting, and reporting necessary for a smooth migration, which can be completed in weeks, not years.

Escape from acquisitions: Bruin aims to provide a clean and user-friendly software solution for expense management stalwarts struggling with legacy systems, according to the vendor.

Consolidation of invoices across carriers: Bruin allows businesses to view spend across multiple vendors, helping them understand where their money is going. The software enables users to explore and investigate any ledger entry with a single click, with the goal of finding and eliminating extraneous costs and underutilized lines.

Filtering and variance reporting: Bruin offers the ability to filter data by location, billing account, vendor, hierarchy, service type, and charge type. According to the vendor, users can receive variance reports based on spend history and client-defined parameters, helping them identify any odd charges and take immediate action.

Allocation and cost coding: The vendor claims that Bruin allows businesses to customize cost coding and allocation for their accounts payable systems. Users can allocate expenses by cost center using organizational hierarchy and store and track all contract information.

Genie Boards™: According to the vendor, Bruin's Genie Boards™ turn data into intelligent action. Users receive charts and recommendations on critical data and can investigate any number with a click, enabling them to take immediate action.

Help desk and ticketing: Bruin includes features for creating tickets related to new phones, landline problems, and store openings. Users can track and manage ticket activity within the software, simplifying and automating their help desk processes, according to the vendor.