Communications leader to make the promise of convergence a reality for
customers
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo -- Leveraging its global networked IT expertise and deep
consulting experience, BT has launched a comprehensive global portfolio of
unified communications and collaboration (UCC) solutions and services as
part of the company's drive toward delivering the full benefits of its 21st
Century Network (21CN) capabilities to customers.
BT's approach to the UCC market is designed to help enterprise
customers manage their journeys to a converged environment where
collaboration tools can be used to increase efficiency, productivity and
competitive position. BT's UCC services enable organizations'
communications infrastructure, mobility, desktop and applications to work
together so that users can take part in almost any form of communication to
anyone at any time, by securely linking voice, mobile and data services
with desktop.
BT works with partners such as Cisco and Microsoft to help enterprise
customers improve communication and collaboration. By providing a
comprehensive portfolio of capabilities and services BT can help customers:
-- Increase flexibility to bring together dispersed project teams of
employees, as well as business partners and customers
-- Get more work done, better and faster, by further extending their reach
into and beyond the enterprise through instantaneous and consolidated
access to information and resources
-- Devote their time and energy to solving business problems, with BT as
the single interface across the entire technology solution
-- Reduce the upfront technology investments and ongoing costs with BT's
suite of IP applications that minimizes the need for infrastructure
investments and eliminates recurrent third party usage charges
BT will offer a single interface for messaging, conferencing,
collaboration and telephony, streamlining and managing the complexity of
communications and collaboration.
Typically companies would have bought their IT and telecommunications
products and services in three distinct groups and from three different
service providers:
-- IT and desktop applications from an IT services or systems integrator
-- Fixed network infrastructure and telephony from a telecommunications or
network service provider
-- Mobile / cellular from a mobile carrier
BT has the ability to bring all these areas together into a single
networked IT services integration program and build a migration strategy
for IP and IT infrastructure.
"To help them fulfill the promise of convergence, enterprises can
benefit from an experienced partner that brings a network-centric
perspective and years of global networking experience to the challenge,"
said Michael Boustridge, President, BT USA & Canada. "BT can unify the
necessary elements and assist in charting a roadmap toward unified
communications that makes the most sense for each enterprise. With BT's
scalable solutions, customers can start implementing UCC on a small scale
and then increase the integration into their IP and IT environments on a
global scale."
BT's UCC offerings address customers' needs from assessment, strategic
planning, design and network performance engineering services through
implementation and management and optimization services, across its entire
range of communications services (voice, messaging, audio, video,
Telepresence and web conferencing, etc.) including IT governance and
regulatory compliance and a full range of security services with archiving
and logging.
About BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions
and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include
networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications
services; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and
converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of
four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT
Wholesale.
In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc's revenue was 20,223
million pounds Sterling with profit before taxation of 2,484 million
pounds.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT
Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group.
BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.
For more information, visit http://www.bt.com/aboutbt.
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