Orange Business Services recognized as an Innovator in Avasant’s Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services RadarView™ Report 2019 – 2020
Among endless service provider options, novel and disruptive mechanics in innovation brings recognition as an Innovator for Hybrid Enterprise Cloud Services 2019-2020.
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“IP-centric cloud approach, robust GTM partnership, notable client growth augmented by strategic inorganic expansion.”
AVASANT ANALYST INSIGHTS
Practice Maturity
- Orange Business Services (OBS) has made stronger inroads after launching the cloud business in 2017. It has achieved over 50% revenue growth in 2018 and gained multi-cloud expertise in managing over 3,500 customers globally and supporting 120K+ VMs across the public and private clouds.
- Its Flexible Engine public cloud platform, powered by Huawei OpenStack technology, has gained significant traction among its loyal customer base. It has already rolled the platform across Western Europe, the US and Southeast Asia, and plans to extend it to the Middle East and Africa in 2019. Some of its recent wins include Midea Group and IIOX.
- With a practice size of 2,200 cloud experts, it continues to invest in human capital quality development through its Cloud Academy, where it has trained 850+ new resources in 2018 itself and plans to hire 300+ employees worldwide.
- It has a distributed client base with a significant focus on manufacturing, telecom, media and entertainment, banking, and utilities & resources, contributing to more than 75% of its hybrid services revenue.
Partnership Ecosystem
- OBS’ robust partner network includes leading public cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP cloud), cloud infrastructure providers (VMware, Nutanix, OpenStack) and networking services providers (Riverbed, InfoVista, and Akamai).
- As part of its notable partnership with Huawei, it will leverage its OpenStack OS for its Flexible Engine Cloud platform, network infrastructure, and opening a new DC facility in Amsterdam in October, complementing its tally of 70+ DCs in 20 countries.
- In terms of catering to financial services clients, it has forged an alliance with Additiv, an expert in digital solutions for the financial market, providing financial institutions with SaaS-based automated wealth management solutions across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
Investments & Innovation
- OBS has taken a strategic inorganic route towards enhancing its hybrid cloud capabilities. Some of its recent acquisitions include Basefarm Holdings (2018) and LogIn Consultants (2016). Basefarm, which generated EUR 100M revenues in 2017, have significantly driven its growth plans outside France.
- It has placed big bets on cloud security, where it has set up Orange Cyberdefense, a dedicated unit established in 2015 to secure enterprise IT environment, 4 cybersecurity SOCs and trained 1,200+ cyber defense experts.
- Through its Cloud4Value program launched in 2018, it is accelerating co-development with customers, start-ups and leading technology players. Currently, it has more than 250 start-ups and expects to add over 100 in 2019.
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