Sprint Workplace-as-a-Service Receives Best of Enterprise Connect Award for Advancing Enterprise Communications
March 19 2015 - 1:24PM
Business Wire
Industry experts honor Sprint solution as
“innovative” for business
Sprint (NYSE:S) was named the winner of the Best of Enterprise
Connect Award, which recognizes a company with the most significant
technological advancement in enterprise communications and
collaboration, at the 25th anniversary Enterprise Connect event in
Orlando.
Workplace-as-a-Service is an integrated and fully managed
solution providing all core IT and communications services,
delivering a new option designed to allow businesses to refresh
technology without over-provisioning or over-spending. In addition
to designing and managing all wireline and wireless services a
business needs, Sprint will deliver site-by-site integration and
implementation.
Workplace-as-a-Service provides mobile device management across
all wireless carriers to allow each employee within a business to
choose their wireless provider but also includes optional,
aggressively priced Sprint wireless plans for tablets or
smartphones, available only as part of this solution.
Workplace-as-a-Service offers service level agreements and a single
source for support. It is offered on a predictable per-user,
per-month basis with the potential to save businesses up to 50
percent over the traditional way of delivering these services to
their employees.1
“We congratulate our best in show winner, Sprint, on the launch
of Sprint Workplace-as-a-Service. This new offering represents
innovative thinking about the evolving role of the service provider
in enterprise networks,” said Enterprise Connect Co-Chair Eric
Krapf. “Though we’ve yet to see its full capability Sprint
Workplace-as-a-Service promises collaboration, integration and
interoperability.”
A panel of industry experts reviewed more than 40 entries,
narrowing the field to six finalists before naming Sprint
Workplace-as-a-Service as Best of Enterprise Connect. The judges
were:
- Robin Gareiss, president and founder,
Nemertes Research
- David Stein, principal, Stein
Technology Group
- Marty Parker, principal consultant,
UniComm Consulting and co-founder, UCStrategies
- Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal
analyst, ZK Research
“Having Workplace-as-a-Service selected as Best of Enterprise
Connect validates our belief that it meets a need for a simple,
flexible and affordable solution for our customers,” said Mike
Fitz, Vice President, Business Solutions at Sprint. “Thank you to
Enterprise Connect, and especially the judges who carefully
evaluated so many offerings to select Workplace-as-a-Service as the
winner.”
Workplace-as-a-Service includes the core wireless and wireline
elements necessary to run a business:
- Wide Area Network (WAN) Connectivity
over Sprint’s secure and reliable IP/MPLS service
- Enterprise-grade managed Wi-Fi
- Enterprise grade voice
- SIP trunking
- Local and domestic long-distance
voice2
- Audio/Video conferencing
- Online collaboration
- Instant messaging and presence
- Mobile device management across all
carriers, plus Bring Your Own Device support for laptops, tablets
and smartphones
- Optional, Sprint wireless plans for
smartphones and tablets
Workplace-as-a-Service is part of Sprint’s OfficeFuelTM approach
for making IT and communications enablement simple and flexible.
Learn more at sprint.com/workplace.
About Sprint Business
Sprint Business provides a range of simple, flexible services
that help workforces to collaborate, mobilize and accelerate. As
work changes, the winners will be the businesses that remove
obstacles to best empower their employees to drive business
success. Our solutions are designed specifically to help our
customers' people work better together, be more engaged and enjoy
their jobs more. To learn more,
visit www.sprint.com/business or join the conversation at
www.sprint.com/futureofwork.
About Enterprise Connect
Enterprise Connect is the leading conference and exhibition for
enterprise communications and collaboration in North America.
Produced by UBM Tech, Enterprise Connect brings corporate IT
decision makers together with the industry's vendors, analysts and
consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise
communications and collaboration hardware, software, systems and
services. Enterprise Connect owns and produces No Jitter,
(www.nojitter.com), providing daily blogging and analysis, and it
also serves the enterprise communications community with a weekly
email newsletter, a Webinar Series and Virtual Events. For more
information, visit www.enterpriseconnect.com.
About UBM Tech
UBM Tech is a global media business that brings together the
world's technology communities through live events, online
properties and custom services. UBM Tech's community-focused
approach provides its users and clients with expertly curated
research, education, training, community advocacy, user-generated
content and peer-to-peer engagement opportunities that serve
the Security, Enterprise IT and Communications, Network
Infrastructure and Applications, and Game and App
Developers communities. UBM Tech's brands include Black Hat,
Dark Reading, Enterprise Connect, Game Developers Conference
(GDC), GTEC, HDI, InformationWeek, and Interop. UBM Tech is a
part of UBM (UBM.L), a global provider of media and information
services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5
billion. For more information, go to http://tech.ubm.com.
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company
that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to
the things they care about most. Sprint served nearly 56
million connections as of December 31, 2014 and is widely
recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative
technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a
national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands
including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless;
instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a
global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past four
years. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
1 – Potential savings based on internal Sprint research on
average IT spend for hardware investments, monthly costs per
person, integration, ongoing maintenance and support costs for a
unified communications suite by leading service providers. Actual
savings may vary.
2 – Long distance rates apply to voice calls outside the United
States and Canada.
SprintBarbara Mellott,
913-269-6590barbara.j.mellott@sprint.com
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