UK Large business & public sector
Once again in April, Let’s Talk was getting to the heart of the big issues of the day.
Again the topics were varied with everything from boating to banking; and we saw blogs on security, brand loyalty and pioneering telehealth in the south west of England.
Anyway, why not see for yourself? Here are the top five articles from the Let’s Talk blog over the past month.
Enjoy! [Read more...]
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...]
Amongst the Alfred Hitchcock classics is the Wrong Man. In it, Henry Fonda plays the role of a man whose life is turned on its head as the result of mistaken identity. His character, Manny, a devoted family man living on a tight budget, is identified by several witnesses as a bank robber, and a series of events see the devastating impact these errors have on him and his family.
With BYOD, the immediate reference point, target and perceived “owner” is identified as Manny, or rather, the IT team. The evidence suggests that they should take this on and do what is necessary (at the lowest cost). However if we pause to reflect, we see that BYOD is one of the factors that drive even bigger themes of: mobility, social and cloud. Thereby changing the way organisations interact with their customers, employees and partners. [Read more...]
The attendees are heading for the airport, the roadies are striking the booths and the Gartner ITxpo season ends for another year.
In retrospect, the unifying theme was the NEXUS of forces driving the next generation of IT. Not one thing, but a collision of powerful elements coming together to offer something greater than the sum of their parts. They are social, mobile, cloud and information. As Gartner Analyst Steven Prentice so eloquently put it, it’s the combination of the forces that is important, not the individual elements. Cloud is the foundation, the other three what happens within it. [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...]
Advice to CIOs and IT professionals: don’t underestimate the significance of bring your own device (BYOD).
Research firm Gartner describes it as “the single most radical shift” in the economics of client computing since the arrival of the PC.
“Every business needs a clearly articulated position on BYOD, even if it chooses not to allow for it,” Gartner says in a new report. [Read more...]
The latest Gartner-Forbes survey of board directors has reaffirmed the importance of IT as a driver of business growth.
Half of those polled put IT as their equal highest priority for investment in 2012, along with sales, and 86% said they believed that IT’s strategic contribution to their business would increase by 2014.
The survey of 175 board members in March and April tapped their views on IT in their organization as well as wider business issues. [Read more...]
As mentioned last week, BYOD and consumerisation are looked upon as important cyber-security threats, according to recent research. However, there is no way back and consumerisation does offer many advantages.
The increase in the number of smartphones and media tablets, used for work-related and personal purposes, within the organisation is a fact.
According to Gartner, we now are in an era of ‘managed diversity in which tiered support for employee-owned, consumer-class devices is the norm’. So, what is the answer to the BYOD security challenges? We outlined the fundamentals several times and recently introduced BT Assure but there is more. [Read more...]
We’re delighted to share with you that BT Global Services is now positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant in three Magic Quadrants: Global Network Service Providers; Pan-European Network Service Providers; and Asia Pacific Network Service Providers*. This is based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute and we are very proud of this achievement.
