Telecom Lead India: Alcatel-Lucent says its new solutions will assist enterprises migrate to the cloud cost effectively.
Targeting mid-to-large enterprises and SMBs, Alcatel-Lucent is launching OpenTouch Suite for Cloud — built on its OpenTouch architecture — to enable enterprises to address high communications expectations.
Michel Emelianoff, president, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, said: “This new offer is based on OpenTouch, a next generation and polymorphic architecture, which offers the same technology deployed on the premise, in the cloud or a combination of both.”
The new offer will contain three segmented solutions: the Enterprise Cloud, the Office Cloud and the Personal Cloud.
The OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud Solution, a software suite, enables service providers, system integrators and channels to deliver Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) giving employees the collaborative experience.
Alcatel-Lucent’s first three partners for OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud include Icon Voice Networks in the United States, Switch Communications in the UK, and UXC Connect in Australia.
Based on the RTU (right-to-use) software license, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise business partners can offer the OpenTouch Enterprise Cloud solution in a flexible SaaS cloud model, enabling a range of user devices to collaborate within and beyond the enterprise.
Evan Kirchheimer, Enterprise Practice Leader, Ovum, said: “ICT decision makers are more likely to consider both private and public cloud options than unmanaged, premises-based collaboration solutions as they make new UC investments.”