Heineken will integrate regional infrastructures in global

Orange Business Services will support Heineken in expansion in emerging markets and will provide communication services for 60 thousand employees of the company in the different countries of the world, the press service of operator reported on July 1, 2013.

Background

The Heineken company signed the multimillion 5-year contract with Orange Business Services for consolidation of the most part of the international infrastructure connecting 60 thousand employees in 53 countries, 1.1 thousand divisions of the company.

Objectives

Orange which is present at 166 countries will provide safe and scalable corporate network for the divisions of Heineken located worldwide.

Infrastructure is designed for support of the international expansion of Heineken and can be quickly extended to the new divisions opening including in emerging markets of Africa, the Pacific Rim and Latin America where the international brewery already has strong positions.

The platform for implementation of further integration projects:

• creation of remote access to a working environment for the staff of Heineken;
• optimization of operation of applications and infrastructure for simplification of functioning of applications, critical for business;
• application of audio conferences and an international telecommunication for holding remote meetings at the high corporate level.

In the closest plans of cooperation of the companies - connection of services of a video conferencing and telepresence.

"We continuously look for new ways of development in emerging markets and a possibility of the best use of advantages of our global presence, - Frans Eusman, the director of business services of Heineken noted. – Optimization of our telecommunication infrastructure is one of key tools in this direction. We addressed Orange to achieve such goals as consolidation of infrastructure, decrease in total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase in controllability. To us the solutions rather flexible for ensuring steady growth of Heineken and reliable communication between all her employees were required. For achievement of our purposes of Orange performs monitoring of functioning of infrastructure and network applications and also assumed strict obligations for the quality level of services".

"We are proud of the fact that our client is one of the leading global manufacturers of beer, - Helmut Reisinger, the senior vice president of Orange Business Services in Europe, Russia and the CIS emphasized. – Offering access to world-class innovations and new technologies of shared access, Orange brings essential benefit to Heineken which is in search of advantages of the global presence. With direct presence in 166 countries worldwide Orange is able to provide to Heineken really global solutions".