14 DAY TRIAL // Orange Business Services announced recently that it was providing key elements of NXP Semiconductors BV’s unified communication strategy. According to the company, its services are meant to enable NXP to improve multinational team collaboration, while also speeding up workflow and benefiting from low cost ownership and predictable cost per user.
At the same time, the wireless carrier also announced that it managed to successfully migrate a number of no less than 15,000 users from a Microsoft Live Communication Server-based service to Managed Microsoft Office Communications Server (Release 2). The carrier is hosting the service and is also supporting it with ITIL standards-based service management, not to mention that it guarantees the availability of the service.
Helmut Reisinger, senior vice president Europe, Orange Business Services, said, “Based on our global network services platform and global unified communications expertise, we have proven to NXP in the past that we provide solutions that truly help them find efficiencies and increase business and employee productivity in order to further improve competitiveness in challenging market circumstances. By delivering a robust unified communications and collaboration service, we are committed to upholding this trust and to increasing the value of our partnership.”
NXP is a high tech company that operates in a market where competition is fierce, and an effective collaboration between the company's employees all around the world is crucial. Orange will offer a state-of-the-art unified communication service to NXP, enabling it to maintain its leading position. Employees will receive instant access and control over their communications via a single Microsoft client, while benefiting from presence, instant messaging and web conferencing services. Moreover, the carrier also aims at including audio and video conferencing in the package, as well as voice services.
Louis Luijten, chief information officer of NXP, states, “Time to market is critical in our business, and effective collaboration between our global teams makes the difference. Orange Business Services is unifying our communications, giving us an edge in our competitive market. On top of that, they are reducing our total cost of ownership. Orange has proven to be a trusted and reliable partner, which is why we took the decision to outsource the integration of this business critical service to them. We look forward to further expanding our cooperation in the years to come.”