O2 today announced the launch of O2 Professional Services - a dedicated team of mobility experts to help enterprise customers achieve the most from mobile technology. The team has been created to offer a convenient and cost-effective service, providing customers with innovative and bespoke mobile or data solutions which address the specific needs of their business.
Building on O2’s heritage and expertise in the mobile space, O2 Professional Services addresses a clear market opportunity to go beyond voice and data in adding value to a customer’s business. Whether it's a special application to connect with field workers or an interactive messaging solution to interact with customers, O2 can advise on how mobile technology can help achieve specific business objectives.
The O2 Professional Services team will cover four key areas:
In addition, the team will be able to troubleshoot errors to ensure customers have the most efficient system possible, conducting voice and data audits, identifying and correcting problems to optimise the solution.
Peter Bullas will be heading up a team of highly qualified technical consultants, solutions architects, trainers and project managers accredited and certified to cover all major areas of mobile technology, including PRINCE 2 project management, CISCO, Microsoft®, Lotus®, Groupwise, SQL and government information assurance. The team has expertise in complex voice and data solution design, configuration and deployment, RADIUS Server, third-party device testing approval and secure design. If required, the team can also customise Windows® mobile technology to meet precise business requirements – such as enhanced security for workforce management and lone-worker operations.
Ben Dowd, Business Sales Director, at O2, said "Acting as a trusted partner for our corporate customers, we are dedicated to tackling the business issues they face. O2 Professional Services builds on the pedigree heritage of the corporate team and will allow us to drive deeper engagement with our customers and take advantage of new revenue opportunities."
Please visit http://www.o2.co.uk/business/corporate/productsandservices for further information.
About O2
O2 is a leading provider of mobile and broadband services to consumers and businesses in the UK. These services include voice, text, media messaging, games, music and video, as well as always on data connections via GPRS, 3G, ASDL2+ and WLAN. Every month, O2’s 17.8 million customers send well over a billion text messages. O2 UK is part of Telefónica O2 Europe which comprises mobile network operators in the UK, Ireland and Slovakia along with integrated fixed / mobile businesses in Germany and the Czech Republic. Telefónica O2 Europe also owns 50% of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany respectively as well as having 100% ownership of Be, a leading UK fixed broadband provider
O2 was ranked as 5th best place to work in the Best Companies to Work for 2007 List and has been awarded a two-star accreditation denoting an ’outstanding’ company.
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For further information, please contact:
Nick Wilkins
Tel: 01753 565656
Email: nick.wilkins@o2.com
Elena Dunn
Tel:020 7608 4646
Email: elena.dunn@skywritecomms.com
