This is the posterous blog for the Orange Business Live Orange Business Services #orangelive09 and will be used as a supporting blog to the main http://blogs.orange-business.com/live blog.
Orange Business Services delivers new kinds of communications solutions, designed for the challenges you face. We provide world leading communications, combining fixed and mobile, voice, data and multimedia services into integrated, secure and effective solutions designed specifically for multinational organizations.
To know more about Orange Business Services, please connect to the http://orange-business.com and http://orange-business.tv websites
This blog is managed by Yann Gourvennec, Head of Internet & Digital Media at Orange Business Services and is populated by the team members of our Orange Business Services bloggng squad who are present on location in London:
- Joël Aouizerate
- Stewart Baines
- Steve Costello
- Rob Evans
- Yann Gourvennec
- Anthony Plewes
The second leg of our journey in America was not only very successful in terms of videos and content generation, it was also a good opportunity to meet our colleagues from overseas who were attending this very nice company picnic right outside our Oak Hill office in Virginia. The Barbecue was great and we had "pulled pork", a typical recipe from America. yum yum :-)
Yann GourvennecThis is leg 2 of our trip top some of the US offices of Orange Business Services. We have taken our camera on a tour of our North Virginia office in order to complement the series of videos which were recorded in Atlanta. On these pictures, Arnaud Messager Head of Network Solutions Americas and Jean Critcher, Head of Business Acceleration solutions are standing in front of the camera in our Oak Hill, Va office. In these videos they are addressing customer painpoints (that's the first video) and metrics, numbers and anecdotes drawn from the many client business cases they have witnessed.
On the last picture, Amy Larsen de Carlo from analyst Current Analysis provides insight and explanations on virtualisation and cloud computing with a US perspective.
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More interviewes in the making in North Virginia. On this picture, Paul Hamrick is getting ready for a video interview with Anthony in his Oak Hill, Va office. Paul will describe how we manage access worldwide. Yann A Gourvennec
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Orange marketing expert Michael Burrell from Atlanta explains why Video conferencing and Unified communications are going through a revival. These concepts are actually very broad and reflect very diverse realities. Above all, the technology has matured and so have users. They have gotten used to practicing remote work with various devices, most of them not interoperable, and now they are ready for more integrated services which make their lives and their business easier.
In these pictures, Michael is getting ready for the interview with Anthony Plewes. The interview and transcript and explanations will be made available soon on our website/blogs and the Orange Business WebTV at http://orange-business.tvComments [0]
This is the first leg of our visit to some of our United States office of Orange Business Services. We are starting with Atlanta. Here are a few pictures taken on the spot. More than 30 videos have been shot so far.#orangebusiness
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Reducing costs is a key priority for all business and at Orange Business Live! Michael Burrell offered a number of top tips to immediately cut telecoms budgets. These included: how to save up to 10% of access spend through reviewing access inventories; taking advantage of the higher bandwidth and lower cost of Ethernet over high speed leased lines; and at the other end of the spectrum replacing low speed SDH access with DSL.
>> read the full story on our blog: http://blogs.orange-business.com/live/2009/06/how-do-i-reduce-my-telecoms-costs.html
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There was plenty of optimism at the Orange Business Live event from Jacques Demael, Executive VP in the Enterprise Line of Business at Orange Business Services, who identified mobile data and machine-to-machine as big growth areas for the ICT market.
For mobile data, Demael highlighted two immediate concerns: cost and security. Addressing the former issue, Orange's products targeting roaming users were trumpeted, including tariff packages intended to reduce costs for roaming workers. The latter was deemed critical when considering that 5%-8% of devices are "lost" each year.
>> read more at: http://blogs.orange-business.com/live/2009/06/mobile-data-and-m2m-provide-positives.html
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Unsurprisingly, managing business IT costs has been a popular topic at Orange Business Live '09, as enterprises are forced to walk the tightrope between reducing costs and maintaining quality of infrastructure.
The danger is that for CFOs looking to control spending, IT will be seen as a support function rather than a strategic investment, and therefore suitable for cuts. Possible outcomes can include the shelving of new programmes and delays to infrastructure "refreshes", with businesses opting to make-do with their existing kit. The buzz session asked whether leasing is viable alternative?
>> read more at: http://blogs.orange-business.com/live/2009/06/clever-finances-discussed-at-orange-business-live-09.html
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To kick off Orange Business Live 09 there was an interesting keynote from Mike Cansfield, principal analyst at Forrester Research. Mike reckons that all companies should now be focussed on planning their way out of the recession (and yes, it is a recession, not a depression as the doom mongers are proclaiming.) Not all sectors and all markets are recessed, so look for areas of growth, he says such as Africa, Middle East and China.
It's also vital to review the underlying cost structures pervading the whole business and recognise how new technologies like Cloud Computing, SaaS, M2M, telepresence, can strip out costs that companies have so far overlooked. For instance, to reduce travel costs, you could use more conferencing and collaboration technologies. To reduce mobile bills, you can look to FMC and getting mobile traffic onto global VPNs as soon as possible.
>> read more at: http://blogs.orange-business.com/live/2009/06/plan-your-way-out-of-recession.html
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