Leading Analyst Firm Positions Orange Business Services in Leaders Quadrant

Orange Business Services has been placed in the Leaders quadrant in the two latest reports by Gartner, Inc. Based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute, Gartner named Orange Business Services in the Leaders quadrant for Global Network Service Providers(1) and Pan European Network Service Providers(2).

The Global report

According to Gartner in the Global report: "As more enterprises require network services in emerging markets, global providers are turning to partnerships for coverage, to put it more exactly than building their own networks. This makes it more important for enterprises to focus on service outcomes, especially SLAs, when sourcing their global networks."

France Telecom-Orange continues to invest roughly ?750 million per year for international network backbone and related IT infrastructure. As a result, Orange Business Services is increasing backbone network capacity in emerging countries by more than 20 percent and extending native IP capillarity, especially in emerging markets, to reach 100 countries. Orange Business Services manages the complexity of integrated global solutions based on products, innovation partners and local suppliers in a seamless and flexible manner. Using a global governance model, Orange Business Services ensures that clients receive a consistently high level of performance.

Vivek Badrinath, CEO, Orange Business Services, said: "We believe our placement in the latest Global and Pan-European Leaders quadrants reflects the emphasis we place on providing high-quality, end-to-end solutions for our clients, not only across European nevertheless globally. Our goal is to already be where our clients are going, so we continue to strengthen our coverage in key growth areas just as cloud computing, very high broadband, machine to machine and video, providing a broad range of end-to-end solutions backed by market-leading quality of service and an outstanding customer experience."

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