Orange Business shines as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ – Enterprise Managed Network Services 2024
"“Today, our customers are facing a major challenge: reconciling the real, the physical world made of production assets such as offices, factories, and call centers, together with the Cloud world, a constantly evolving data universe. This interconnection between their legacy IT infrastructures and new technologies is absolutely essential for their competitiveness. At Orange Business, our strategy relies on the complementarity of these two worlds. We firmly believe that it is not about choosing between the real world and the Cloud, but about integrating them into a single, consistent platform. To achieve this, we have developed services such as Network as a Service (NaaS) and Unified SASE. These services provide flexibility and agility, enabling our customers to rethink their network infrastructures and quickly adapt to changes in their environment, while meeting the growing demands for cybersecurity, data protection, and cost management. The recent recognition of Orange Business by ISG in their latest Provider Lens™ – Enterprise Managed Network Services 2024 report, where we are ranked as leader, confirms our strategy. This honor validates our commitment to transforming the way we deliver our services, addressing the challenges of cost control, security, and service, while considering the rapid evolution of business models. We are determined to support our customers in this transition, bridging these two worlds so they can make the most of their technological investments.”
Jean-Noël Michel, VP Communication Services Business Line at Orange Business Services
Leading global technology research and advisory firm ISG had ranked Orange as a leader in Managed Network Services in Europe across 3 areas:
- Managed Network Services Evolution
- Managed Entreprise Connectivity Solution (DIA, VoIP and VPN)
- Network as a Service (Naas)
The Network as a Service (NaaS) quadrant of the ISG Provider Lens™ Enterprise Managed Network Services examines providers of NaaS that can rapidly integrate their offerings into enterprises based on existing commercial network deployments in different regions. NaaS is a cloud-based service model, based in large part on the MEF model where clients can rent networking services from providers, typically MSPs, telecoms operators or cloud providers. With NaaS, enterprises can meet their networking requirements without the need to have related staff to maintain the networking infrastructure. NaaS combines flexible cloud computing with modern security models such as zero trust network access (ZTNA) to deliver advanced and updated network and security solutions to enterprises. NaaS can be rapidly deployed or removed, on demand, using centralized management tools. Standardized interfaces ensure compatibility with existing solutions. NaaS solutions focus on orchestration, autoconfiguration, self-healing and adaptable services, which sets them apart from managed network services. Also known as network on demand (NoD), NaaS allows on-demand provisioning for enterprises in a pay-as-you go model, effectively meeting the evolving demands of SaaS and various cloud platforms, including edge computing.
According to ISG, Orange Business provides MNS and flexible consumption models and advanced network and security solutions customized to meet businesses' unique demands through its Evolution Platform.
ISG recognizes the following strengths:
Strategic alignment: To align its products with the clients' needs, Orange Business has implemented several strategic value propositions (SVPs). The SVP Digital Infrastructure focuses on networking and software services. This initiative includes the creation of the Evolution Platform, which delivers two significant innovations — a platform built for innovation that gives direct access to the latest multivendor releases and cloud-like network and security services.
Evolution Platform effectiveness in NaaS: The Evolution Platform is designed to provide robust security and high-performance networking. Since many of the services hosted on this platform require reliable, secure network performance, it guarantees smooth operations through advanced service chaining and monitoring across MNS and NaaS.
Flexible consumption models: The company provides various operational and delivery methods, such as fully managed, comanaged and custom-designed solutions for its clients' specific needs. This extensive portfolio permits a transition from the conventional service provider paradigm to a software-defined networking transformation delivered as a service and independent of the underlying network.
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