Go and Alcatel-Lucent organised a networking event for business clients in Malta, entitled ‘Welcome to the New PC Era – The personal cloud era’. This event showcased various technologies, hardware and services that are transforming the way businesses operate, work, store and access data.
Go said that in the fast-changing landscape of today’s workplace communications, Alcatel-Lucent’s OpenTouch Suite for SMB (small and medium businesses) delivers smooth transformation paths that spur innovation with the assurance of future capabilities supporting the rise of the ‘bring your own device’ culture and the shift to cloud-based services. OpenTouch Suite for SMB makes mobility a natural extension of the communication, collaboration, sharing, multitasking and multimedia experience. Virtual workforces can effectively engage through one-to-one, one-to-many or interactive work group sessions as distance between employees becomes a detail.
One of the key functional benefits of OpenTouch Suite for SMB is My Instant Social Network (My IC).
Alcatel-Lucent My IC Social Networks is an application that integrates Microsoft Outlook, Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN), Facebook, Skype and Yahoo! with the Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Office Rich Communication Edition. It enables users to optimise communications by providing a variety of communication options such as voice, video, e-mail, text message and instant messaging , all through existing social media.
Paolo Ferretti, Alcatel-Lucent’s business development manager, said: “A phone call may start on a mobile device but, depending on what is being discussed, may then need to be transferred to another device to allow for access to applications or video conferencing. With OpenTouch, you don’t need to transfer calls as the call shifts automatically.”
Yiannos Michaelides, chief executive at Go, said: “Half of all mobile traffic on the Go network is video. It therefore makes perfect sense for businesses to also use video in their communication with clients, suppliers and staff, as this is the format that users are adopting in their daily lives.”
Markus Golder, chief commercial officer at Go, added: “Cloud functionality relies on a strong fixed and mobile network. Go invests 15 per cent of revenues, some €100 million over five years, in its network and is the only provider to have two fibre optic cables connecting Malta to mainland Europe, as well having all mobile base stations fibre connected. This impressive infrastructure coupled with our 30-year relationship with Alcatel-Lucent means Go is more than ready for the New PC Era.”