Orange Business Services Positioned in Gartner Leaders Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Multiregional

Orange Business Services has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant in the recent edition of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Multiregional1 for its Business Together as a Service solution.

The report evaluated 21 Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) providers with different levels of geographic coverage, richness of services and scalability. Orange Business Services was the only communications service provider (CSP) named in the Leaders quadrant. Vendors are assessed both on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.

According to Gartner, “Vendors in the Leaders quadrant have been delivering complete UCaaS solutions for multiple years, have clients with more than 1,000 employees supported and have more than 200,000 total employees supported. These vendors have their accounts implementing a comprehensive and integrated UCaaS solution set that addresses the full range of market needs, along with the proven ability to service large accounts.”

transforming the workspace with unified communications

Orange Business Services is committed to helping enterprise digital transformation by equipping the new workspace with unified communications tools in the cloud, wherever employees are located and whatever the device they use. Business Together as a Service is delivered worldwide from data centers in Atlanta, Washington DC, London, Paris, Normandy (France), Frankfurt, Singapore and Sydney.

As a global integrator, Orange Business Services combines leading unified communications products and applications with real-time services like enterprise telephony, mobility, voice, video and conferencing to allow companies to offer its users a unique and simple unified communications and collaboration experience.

Paul Molinier, Senior Vice-President, Unified Communications & Collaboration, Orange Business Services commented, “We are proud to be the sole communication service provider in the Leaders Quadrant. We believe this is a great recognition of our efforts in strengthening our Business Together as a Service solution over the last few years. We see unified communications and cloud services as key components helping our customers achieve the digital transformation that will help them succeed in competitive global markets.”

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is available at:

http://www.orange-business.com/en/what-analysts-are-saying

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-20RB601&ct=140903&st=sb

About the Magic Quadrant

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About Orange Business Services

Orange Business Services, the Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, is a leading global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. With the world's largest, seamless network for voice and data, Orange Business Services reaches 220 countries and territories with local support in more than 160. Offering a comprehensive package of communication services covering cloud computing, enterprise mobility, M2M, security, unified communications, videoconferencing, and broadband, Orange Business Services delivers a best-in-class customer experience across a global landscape. Thousands of enterprise customers and 1.4 million mobile data users rely on an Orange Business Services international platform for communicating and conducting business. Orange Business Services was awarded four of the telecom industry’s highest accolades at the annual World Communication Awards 2013 - Best Global Operator, Best Cloud Service, Best Enterprise Service and Best Small Business Service. Orange Business Services is the only seven-time winner of Best Global Operator. Learn more at www.orange-business.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with annual sales of €41 billion in 2013 and has 161,000 employees worldwide at June 31, 2014. Orange is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trademarks of Orange Brand Services Limited.

1 August 28, 2014