UK Large business & public sector
As you know we’ve just been positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant of Gartner’s Global Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant for the ninth time*.
As well as that Gartner also rated us as “outstanding” in overall product viability in its new Critical Capabilities report for Pan-European Network Services*, which is something we’re really proud of. [Read more...]
We’re at it again, and just four months after being positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant for Gartner’s Asia-Pacific Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant*, BT is delighted to have been positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant for the Global Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant* for the ninth time.
Magic Quadrants provide a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, where market growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct: [Read more...]
According to research by Belgian Vlerick Business School, Europe has the potential to generate up to 1.5 billion extra jobs in the EU digital economy. In the report, ‘Online Jobs Boosting Europe’s competitiveness’, the authors write at least 400,000 extra jobs could be created. The internet sector is now found to employ 3.4 million people.
That’s approximately 1.6% of the total active population in the EU. The report, that was published this month, takes a detailed look at the economic value of the EU internet sector. In order to understand the growth opportunities, it’s important to first define what is meant by the internet sector and the digital economy. The authors categorized the internet ‘as an ecosystem consisting of various layers, including infrastructure, applications, intermediary, and commerce.’ [Read more...]
The Civil Service Awards are designed to celebrate examples of good business practice, innovation, efficiency and so on made across government and in the public sector. This year they’re taking place on Thursday November 22 at London’s spectacular Lancaster House. There are 14 awards, most with a shortlist of three finalists, all having been selected from around 750 nominations.
The prestige of the event is well summed up by the fact that the Prime Minister delivers the opening address and presents the initial award, whilst the head of the civil service, Sir Bob Kerslake and Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary, will be opening and closing the awards ceremony, as well as handing out the majority of the awards. [Read more...]
BT has unveiled two innovative new cloud-based services for the healthcare sector at this year’s EHI Live conference at the NEC.
The first service — medical transcription — will be launched early in the new year. It uses voice to text software from 3M which allows users to dictate notes and letters from virtually anywhere, using any device (think smartphones, Dictaphones or digital recorders) for the system to automatically turn into text. [Read more...]
Hello from Gartner IT Expo in Barcelona, where several thousand IT executives and a highly-informed flock of analysts are engaging in their annual exploration of the state of the industry. There are few surprises, and not a lot that’s new. While the phrase “cautiously optimistic” is turning up in a variety of languages, Gartner’s CIO and CEO surveys still have five of the top ten priorities related to cost cutting.
There’s one word, however, coming up more than ever before: devices. [Read more...]
Global directors and general managers are riding the wave of innovation. 62 per cent want integrated IM and email. Two thirds want BYOD. A quarter of under-35s are using Facebook for work.
This year’s Gartner Symposium in Barcelona – starting this week – is all about these so-called ‘disruptive’ technologies. How can CIOs use them to turn their business towards growth? [Read more...]
By Garry Woodcock.
Hold on to your hats, the new BT Global Services website is live.
Everything you need to know
Everything our business knows about your business and what you need has gone into the re-design. The new website (bt.com/globalservices) means we’re ready to support you online in every possible way, to make managing your business ICT needs easier and to help your organisation thrive. [Read more...]
The debate on the role of social networks and technologies within the corporate environment isn’t over. While many businesses have adopted social media for marketing and customer service purposes – albeit with different degrees of maturity – the full potential of social business and social in the workplace is still to be understood by most.
Furthermore, there is clearly no consensus on the role and potential of social networks in the workplace. The debate on the benefits of social networking in the workplace, has even taken a somewhat unexpected turn.
While the adoption of mobile and social technologies in the workplace was – and often still is – a ‘user-driven’ evolution (consumerisation, BYOD,…) there is a disconnect in how the “value of social networking to build and maintain workplace culture,” is perceived by executives and employees. [Read more...]
Gartner released a revised IT spending outlook for 2012. The company now expects worldwide IT spending to increase 3 percent from 2011, slightly higher than the 2.5% projection it announced last quarter. Cloud computing and consulting services are doing well… for a reason.
More important than the exact numbers are the underlying trends. The best news for the industry seems to be that “the outlook has at least stabilised,” as Gartner Research VP, Richard Gordon puts it. Nevertheless, with the euro zone crisis, a slowdown in China, virtually no changes in business confidence or consumer sentiment and a weaker U.S. recovery, Gartner remains cautious.
However, there are bright spots, and they are nearly all in the cloud and where IT meets business value.
