Unilever

In order to release capital funds for business expansion, Unilever contracted BT in one of the largest outsourcing contracts in UK corporate history – worth €750 M over 10 years. BT now manages and develops Unilever’s entire global communications infrastructure, supporting 179,000 people in 100 countries.

To help Unilever achieve its goals, BT deployed a strong technology strategy and roadmap, simplifying the company’s supplier interface from 400+ to 1.

Thanks to BT Strategic Sourcing solution, rapid deployment of new technologies is quickly available across Unilever’s entire geographical reach. By acquiring €18m million of assets, all existing supplier contracts, and with 100+ people successfully transferred so far, BT has helped Unilever to focus on its core business and fund its business development programme.

Reuters

BT Radianz is assisting Reuters in reaching its strategic vision for delivery of all products and services using Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

Reuters is the world’s largest international news and television agency with over 2,300 editorial staff, in 196 bureaux serving 129 countries. As a leading provider of financial information to the global financial markets, it has a reputation for speed, accuracy and integrity. Over 370,000 financial market professionals use Reuters information services.

By outsourcing the management of its IP networks to BT Radianz, Reuters products and services will benefit from greater capacity and resilience. BT Radianz Connectivity provides a consolidated connection so that its customers are able to receive multiple.Reuters services over the same connection – saving money, time, equipment and maintenance.

The BT Radianz shared market infrastructure model ensures fast, secure, reliable access to trading partners and services throughout the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade cycle.

Visa

With help from BT, Visa has transformed its CEMEA network infrastructure, resulting in greatly increased levels of speed and availability.

Visa International is a service association owned by 21,000 member banks that provide over a billion Visa cards worldwide. Following a period of rapid growth, Visa realised that its CEMEA infrastructure was struggling to keep up with customer demands in terms of transaction times and availability.

By selecting BT as its single supplier, Visa benefited from a comprehensive migration path that allowed it to cater for the carrying needs of its network across 51 countries.

Using a solution that includes terrestrial and satellite technologies across 265 sites and 51 countries, BT has enabled Visa to reduce transaction times by 40% and achieve 99.98% availability.

Further, by using a single supplier, Visa has been able to reduce the complexity of its network, resulting in lower network management costs.