IRVING, Texas, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BT announced today
a contract with Nutreco, a global leader in animal nutrition and
fish feed, for the delivery of a complete, cloud-based, Unified
Communications and Collaboration (UCC) solution.
BT will streamline Nutreco's telephony, presence, instant
messaging and conferencing capabilities onto a single cloud
platform - on a pay-per-user basis - for up to 5,000 users
globally. By enabling collaboration across audio, video and web
conferencing, BT's solution speeds up decision making and will
increase the productivity of Nutreco employees. The global scale of
the solution will help the company achieve its growth ambitions in
markets like Latin America and
Asia Pacific.
The new solution, based on BT One Cloud Microsoft, is also
expected to deliver significant cost savings by routing
international calls over BT's global network and reducing the
volume of email and voicemail as employees collaborate in real
time.
The new infrastructure will be underpinned by BT's One Voice SIP
trunking service. The SIP protocol enables cost-effective
call-routing, helps reduce costs by simplifying the core
infrastructure and eliminates the need for investment into
hardware.
"BT is one of the very few providers capable of delivering
global collaboration solutions based on Microsoft's Skype for
Business, a well-known solution, appreciated by our users," said
Henry van de Ven, CIO Nutreco. "BT's
enterprise-grade cloud services help us avoid additional
investments and are a good business case compared to the old 'PABX
world'. Their technology will improve the working conditions of our
employees by enabling real-time, global collaboration and reduce
the need to travel. We believe that they are the right partner to
help us drive sustainable, profitable growth."
Corrado Sciolla, President Europe
and Global Telecom Markets, BT Global Services, said: "We look
forward to working with Nutreco and support their growth plans
around the world through more productive and better quality
collaboration across their employee base. The cloud solution we are
deploying is designed to improve Nutreco's customer experience in a
cost effective way, by bringing together the best collaboration
services in the cloud – our own, and those of our world class
partners. This is fully in line with our 'Cloud of Clouds' vision,
aiming to empower large organizations to connect easily and
securely to the applications and data they need, wherever they are
hosted."
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.
Nutreco
Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition
and fish feed. Our advanced feed solutions are at the origin of
food for millions of consumers worldwide. Quality, innovation and
sustainability are guiding principles, embedded in the Nutreco
culture from research and raw material procurement to products and
services for agriculture and aquaculture. Experience across 100
years brings Nutreco a rich heritage of knowledge and expertise for
building its future. Nutreco employs approximately 11,000 people in
35 countries. Its two global company brands Skretting (fish feed)
and Trouw Nutrition (animal nutrition) have sales in over 90
countries. Nutreco is a wholly owned subsidiary of SHV Holdings
N.V., a family-owned multinational with net sales of €14.9 billion
($19.7 billion) in 2014.
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