ORLANDO, Fla., March 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise
Connect -- The Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
Enterprise division is today introducing a suite of business
communications and collaboration applications delivered as a
service (AaaS) for individual employees, complete teams or
departments of any size, allowing businesses to harness the
potential of the cloud for themselves and their customers.
As applications transcend daily life in the workplace -
presenting new challenges to corporate IT departments in the
process - cloud technology is increasingly becoming viable for
delivering these applications. This is prompting businesses to find
new models for connecting their employees anywhere and anytime on
any device.
For a growing number of enterprise employees, their digital
lives are no longer confined to a single device, nor defined by how
and by what means content is delivered. This freedom creates
exciting new opportunities. Offered as a cloud-hosted overlay, the
OpenTouch Personal Cloud (OTPC) enables enterprise end users to
select the communications solutions that best fit their needs.
Businesses are able to deploy these solutions without experiencing
an outage in existing services, plus there are no up-front costs
nor new technology to install. Delivered through Alcatel-Lucent
Enterprise channel business partners, OTPC offers businesses a
collection of applications, on an as needed, per-users basis. They
are designed to help user communities solve particular
communication pain points in their day-to-day working lives.
All OTPC applications are accesible via web browsers on PCs or
Apple's Mac OS®, and also via dedicated apps on
smartphones and tablets. The initial three applications available
in 2014 via OTPC include:
- OpenTouch Conference – OpenTouch Conference (OTCF) goes
beyond traditional audio conferencing and web meetings. It enables
enterprise users to join faster, easily control the meeting, and
share with-a-click via the cloud on any device. Working with
technology partner LoopUp, and its popular conferencing and meeting
management product, OpenTouch Conference is an as-a-service,
business professional, high quality conferencing tool.
- OpenTouch Video Store – Capitalizing on the power of
video, OpenTouch Video Store (OTVS) enables employees to create and
securely share video content as an effective communications tool to
learn, improve productivity, create awareness and enhance
interactions amongst employees. Available to external and internal
contacts, OTVS helps contain costs and gives each employee the
ability to create, access and share knowledge and information. OTVS
is also ideal for education, technical support and to foster
innovation across the enterprise.
- OpenTouch Team Share – The growing amount of data and
documents available is driving the need for enterprises to find
tools that enable file sharing and sync, project management, and
team collaboration via the cloud. OpenTouch Team Share (OTTS)
offers an enterprise-grade, cloud-based file sharing tool that also
enables project teams to share, control and follow up on existing
projects efficiently by gaining access to the information anytime,
from any device.
OTPC solution also offers a dedicated website called Personal
Cloud Space a revolutionary web-based cockpit where business
partners and customers perform administration on their accounts.
Through the Personal Cloud Space, designated customer
administrators can create new user accounts for employees, change
user settings and modify the options users have access to, as well
as terminate users. Administrators also have access to company's
application consumption, and can view who's using which service,
predict the costs and take the actions to stay on budget. In all
these ways, the Personal Cloud Space empowers customers to monitor
the usage of their personal cloud applications.
The benefits of the OpenTouch Personal Cloud Solution reach
across the enterprise:
- Employees and teams are able to address communications
needs by selecting applications that meet business requirements
with minimum IT involvement.
- IT departments deliver services to user communities from
a range of pre-approved communications applications deployed as an
overlay on any existing system, that doesn't require capital
investment or training and does not disrupt other services.
- CIOs and CFOs appreciate that the Personal Cloud
applications can be delivered on existing communications
infrastructure, protecting cash flow, exceptional cost
predictability and pay-as-you-go options, and shifting CAPEX to
OPEX.
The OpenTouch Personal Cloud offer will be made available
globally starting with a group of early adopter business partners
in Australia, France, Germany, Spain, UK and the
United States.
Quotes
Jose Antonio Illarregui, General Manager BC Sistemas
(Spain), "We see many of our
customers looking for affordable ways to do more with technology in
their business, avoiding long installation processes or changing
infrastructures. Applications like the ones in Alcatel-Lucent's
OpenTouch Personal Cloud bring that opportunity with a real
differentiated approach such the overlay and 'as a service'
concepts. It's an ideal way for us, as channel partners, to step
into the cloud business with no risk or major investment."
Dany Jenneve, VP,
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Personal Cloud Solutions, "The
vision of the OpenTouch Personal Cloud is to provide any
organization with affordable, easy-to-use, enterprise-grade
communications solutions as a service. As more businesses recognize
the potential in supporting employees' personal use of cloud
applications, Alcatel-Lucent and its partners are there to give
businesses the ability to shift to the cloud, with no hassle and
minimal risk."
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About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
We
are at the forefront of global communications, providing products
and innovations in IP and cloud networking, as well as
ultra-broadband fixed and wireless access to service providers and
their customers, and to enterprises and institutions throughout the
world. Underpinning us in driving the industrial transformation
from voice telephony to high-speed digital delivery of data, video
and information is Bell Labs, an
integral part of the Group and one of the world's foremost
technology research institutes, responsible for countless
breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and communications
industry. Our innovations have resulted in our Group being
recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Top 100 Global Innovator, as
well as being named by MIT Technology Review as amongst 2012's Top
50 "World's Most Innovative Companies". We have also been
recognized for innovation in sustainability, being named Industry
Group Leader in the Technology Hardware & Equipment sector in
the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review, for making global
communications more sustainable, affordable and accessible, all in
pursuit of the Group's mission to realize the potential of a
connected world.
With revenues of Euro 14.4 billion
in 2013, Alcatel-Lucent is listed on the Paris and New
York stock exchanges (Euronext and NYSE: ALU). The company
is incorporated in France and
headquartered in Paris.
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