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Hybrid MNO – When Data Integrity Issues Disrupt

James Young — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:53:13 +0000

Lease Agreements are at the very core of a Wireless Operator’s day-to-day business. They are complex, restrictive, expensive – and very necessary. Add on the additional responsibility of owning infrastructure assets (e.g. macro, micro and DAS) and you’ve inherited ALL the challenges of being a TowerCo. It can be exhausting oscillating between both worlds. So why the need to acquire more? Obviously, to continue to scale the business, increase your reach of the service(s)and meet the revenue goals you’ve forecast.

When your company consolidates with a competing or complementary company, the expectation is the deal yields more good leases than bad within the inherited sets of documents. These documents are voluminous and typically don’t align with your organic leasing methodology. It’s a spark just waiting to become an inferno.

Why data integrity matters

Data integrity issues are the greatest threat to your leasing ecosystem They cost time, money, and put assets and infrastructure at risk – to include:

Missed Notices resulting in failed renewals
Misaligned notice schedules (which result in renewal failure)
Expensive renegotiation fees
Increased ground lease rents
Higher Site Lease Rents
Lost Rental Revenue
Greater OPEX spending than forecast
Greater CAPEX investment than forecast
Compressed, time-sensitive action items
Time-consuming research of legacy agreements and associated asset-related documents

Solving your pain

DatumNexus® employs a proprietary service using AI enhanced tools to verify, validate and identify data integrity issues in your asset-related, unstructured documents. These documents accumulate, primarily, during consolidation (merger or acquisition) and introduce various issues to the new organization during the knowledge transfer phase of the transaction. These issues emerge as risks that cost you money, value and shareholder confidence.

How this works

We identify risks that cost you money. Our proprietary service enables more effective management of wireless leasing costs, preventing you from encountering the many risks inherent to the wireless leasing ecosystem. Risks such as:

Identify risky time-sensitive lease action terms
Associate your unstructured, asset related lease documents
Verify the accuracy of your System of Record
Help satisfy your SOX compliance obligation
Ingest, Extract, Associate and Compare data in a fraction of the time of physical staff
Provide greater validity to the critical leasing decisions you make
Provide insight in every phase of M&A

Get results with DatumNexus®

Tailored Information: Our AI solutions are tailored to your company’s unique needs, offering unmatched efficiency and accuracy.
A Partner in Growth: We do not just offer a service; we forge partnerships that foster growth, innovation, and social responsibility.
Commitment to Diversity: Our collaboration will serve as a testament to your company’s dedication to building a diverse, inclusive, and sustainable business ecosystem.
Guided by Responsiveness: While we focus on your Asset-Related Documents like tower lease agreements, our next offering can be customized to your specific risk identification needs.
Responsible Governance: We provide a third-party audit enabling an organization to maintain regulatory compliance.

Experience the difference

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Asset-Related Documents – What are they and how they affect data integrity.

Thomas Wade — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:18:00 +0000

Data Integrity.

In multiple industries, asset-related documents are the ecosystem of an organization. There is connectivity within and between these asset-related documents which makes them “dynamic.” Due to this connectivity, a document’s intent can change due to another dynamically connected document. When an organization’s system of record is inserting data obtained from dynamically connected documents, the chances of data integrity issues and exposure to risk are extremely high.

The Need for Data Integrity in the Wireless Industry!

Over the past two decades, we have seen reports in various business journals discussing how companies are not realizing the value of their acquisitions. This seems to be the case whether the deal driver is to increase market share, acquire technology or in the case of the wireless industry acquire “footprint resulting in a loss of millions of dollars.

Ironically even though the deal drivers are true, I would suggest that the ultimate deal driver are Asset Related Documents the information, or data contained within them. Lack of Data Integrity in any of these documents can have catastrophic consequences to an organization’s bottom line.

What are Asset Related Documents?

An asset Related Document is a controlling document that is related to a revenue generating asset. The revenue generating assets that are controlled are Human resources and Capital resources. They are almost always documents that create, modify or terminate contractual obligations, such as lease terms.

Why are Asset Related Documents Dynamic?

Asset Related documents are dynamic because they have to ability to have its meaning changed by other documents such as addendums, amendments, assignments etc.

What can be done?

ValiDatum®, by DatumNexus® is the only solution available today, specifically designed to mitigate data integrity issues caused by dynamically connected asset related documents. ValiDatum® reduces risk exposure by identifying risk in 100% of the inherited documents and data before finalizing an acquisition. ValiDatum verifies the source of the data, validates the accuracy and consistency of the system of record and identifies risk.

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WDNI Blog: Let’s Travel to Lease Renewal Land

James Young — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:26:00 +0000

Renewals Make the World-Go-Round

Renewals make the world-go-round – especially in the world of the Tower Provider. There are renewal terms for every instrument that drives the leasing of infrastructure globally. With that said, Land Leases (a.k.a. Ground Lease, a.k.a. Property Lease) are, arguably, the most sensitive instrument in the Mobile Infrastructure industry – NO land/ground/property equals NO site equals NO revenue. Now, that’s a formula for disaster. While there are several factors involved – such as Landlord/Tenant relations, lease terms, site tenancy and more – RENEWALS are generally at the top of that list. While Land Lease terms have a general, repeatable format, each lease agreement potentially has its own concessions specific to the site and landlord. At best, Land Lease management is a menagerie of instruments, documents, terms, notices.

Lease Management Headaches

Most Leasing Departments are understaffed and must go through mountains of data – many of which still reside on paper stacked in boxes. Even if it is all digitized, the systems are not extracting all the data necessary to determine the action you need to take, resulting in missed deadlines that are never-ending.

Looking for a way to accurately extract RISK in your ground lease agreements? Have you missed any termination or renewal notice deadlines? Confused about who the REAL landlord may be due to acquisition? Inherited new assets through acquisition and scrambling to identify risky leases? Do you have properties that are bundled in an agreement? You aren’t the first and not the only one facing these challenges.

Protecting Your Assets

Missing a renewal deadline results in termination – sometimes your own. The best way to protect you and your assets is to have as much information as possible to take the best, most informed action possible. With all the challenges that can be faced in doing so, it can be overwhelming – seemingly impossible – at times. Whether your portfolio is organically grown or grown through acquisition, we are DatumNexus™ and we take on the task to Verify, Validate and Identify Risk within your vast system of records that help you make the decision you need FAST – before it’s too late.

With 20+ years of experience in the Mobile Infrastructure Leasing industry, we understand all the challenges involved from Site Acquisition through Renewal. Our solution, Validatum™, offers you a valuable look into your overall risk profile like never before. Giving you the perfect, fast complementary solution to offer relief from your existing, exhaustive process.

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If you are interested in finding out more about DatumNexus™ and how we can help reduce the risk to your asset portfolio, click HERE to get the conversation started.

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