IRVING, Texas, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BT today announced
the global availability of three new cloud-based solutions that
enable customers to easily integrate collaboration tools and
services from disparate technology platforms and different vendors.
Freedom of choice, security and great user experience deliver the
promise of "Cloud of Clouds" to multi-vendor unified communications
and collaboration environments.
With One Cloud video, BT
addresses the shift of video collaboration from the conference room
to multi-vendor environments using office desktops, home laptops
and mobile devices. To help customers prevent the traps of video
islands that are unable to interconnect between them and to the
wider world, BT is now making it easy to schedule and join a video
conference across different platforms and different devices.
One Cloud video is launched globally
and allows user-friendly video conferencing either through MeetMe
video for existing BT MeetMe, Microsoft and mixed video estate
customers, or through Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMR) for
customers who use WebEx.
For One Cloud Microsoft customers, BT is now bringing
together the familiar experience of Skype with the security,
compliance, and control of Microsoft Lync in a new Skype for
Business proposition. The new capability is launched globally
and allows BT One Cloud Microsoft customers to very easily engage
into productive conferencing sessions with anyone –including
customers or partners outside their organizations.
For One Cloud Cisco
customers, BT addresses the needs of many organizations with past
investments in incompatible voice and desktop technologies. BT is
now making it possible for those customers to bridge the gaps and
add advanced collaboration services, such as BT MeetMe with Dolby
voice, Cisco WebEx and Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms to their
One Cloud Cisco collaborate license
as and when they need them. The new capability is launched
globally.
The new cloud offers build on BT's expertise in bringing
together technology platforms that are usually seen as
incompatible. The BT Advise professional services team design the
processes and technology services needed by customers to make all
these technologies work seamlessly together, delivering the fullest
promise of unified communications in the most complex
environments.
Andrew Small, vice-president for
unified communications and customer relationship management at BT
Global Services, said: "Our customers want choice, security, a
great user experience and a single way of managing their options.
But they do not want the complexity. For that, integration is the
key. The easy integration of a very diverse range of collaboration
services and tools, disparate platforms and multiple devices across
fixed and mobile communications is a key building block of our
broader 'Cloud of Clouds' technology vision. Our customers are
counting on us to bring all that together in the cloud, along with
the network performance required by high definition
videoconferencing wherever it is required, and the knowledge of how
to manage and integrate existing investments securely."
BT's technology vision: the Cloud of Clouds
The cloud
is creating choices that never existed before. Through
understanding those choices comes the confidence and the ability to
harness change and do things that matter: get to market and
innovate faster, keep costs down, and keep customers happy.
BT's Cloud of Clouds vision is about allowing customers to
connect easily and securely to the applications and data they need,
regardless of where they're hosted and where they are based.
As a cloud service integrator, we help customers move
confidently and successfully along their cloud journey whilst
minimizing the complexity, risk and cost; to give them a choice of
roadmaps that work for their organization, in a way that will
deliver the results they need.
We manage the whole process from network to cloud, we deal with
third parties, deliver performance and security and simplify
pricing, all under a single Service Level Agreement.
About BT
BT's purpose is to use the power of
communications to make a better world. It is one of the
world's leading providers of communications services and solutions,
serving customers in more than 170 countries. Its principal
activities include the provision of networked IT services globally;
local, national and international telecommunications services to
its customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband,
TV and internet products and services; and converged fixed/mobile
products and services. BT consists principally of five
customer-facing lines of business: BT Global Services, BT Business,
BT Consumer, BT Wholesale and Openreach.
For the year ended 31 March 2015,
BT Group's reported revenue was £17,979m with reported profit
before taxation of £2,645m.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets
of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in
London (LSE: BT.A) and
New York (NYSE: BT).
For more information, visit www.btplc.com.
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