Converging IT and communication networks
IT and communication networks often evolve independently, expanding through piecemeal application deployments, planned upgrades and mergers and acquisitions. This can cause complexity and inefficiency as well as increased support costs and service interruption.
BT’s Operational Efficiency IT solution brings together a range of networked IT services that enable you to simplify, optimise and integrate your IT infrastructure. This can help reduce maintenance and network costs while improving service delivery.
Building an infrastructure that supports your business transactions
BT’s Operational Efficiency IT solution seamlessly unites your IP and IT infrastructure to help support all your business transactions. To get there, we focus on four key areas:
- Consolidation – our consultative approach enables us to identify and remove unnecessary cost, waste and duplication by rationalising your networked IT infrastructure.
- Data Centre Services – extending savings and enabling enhanced business resilience through remote office consolidation and virtualisation of the data centre.
- Application Integration and Performance Improvement – supporting the integration of legacy and future applications, identifying rogue traffic and providing information on infrastructure performance.
- Service Oriented Infrastructure and Managed Service – providing a flexible environment that you can plug into. Expert skills are supplied as part of the managed service, removing the problem of acquiring and retaining accredited IT staff.
Optimising performance and productivity
Through Operational Efficiency IT, BT has taken full responsibility for the day-to-day operation and evolution of Edinburgh Council’s networked IT infrastructure. Our server virtualisation approach has enabled greater utilisation of server resources, lowered support costs and increased resilience by reducing potential points of failure. In turn, this will generate support savings over the next five years of over £760,000 and deliver payback in less than 3 years.
Our extensive networked IT expertise could help you:
- Simplify, standardise and virtualise your infrastructure to remove complexity and reduce the underlying cost of services.
- Gain flexibility and scalability of IT systems to meet your business needs.
- Access the right technical skills whenever you need them.
- Reduce operational support costs through integrated service desks.
- Help reduce your carbon footprint by optimising your IT capabilities.
Contact your BT Account Manager to learn more about the journey to convergence with BT’s Operational Efficiency IT solution.
