BT ANNOUNCES BUSINESS PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE

SINGAPORE, 4
SEPTEMBER 2017 – BT
today announced details of a new “Business Platform-as-a-Service”, the first of
its kind widely available in the market. The platform, called BT Personalised Compute Management
System (PCMS), is designed to help companies speed up time-to-market
for new digital services, disrupt their traditional business models and create
new ways to grow.

PCMS is built on the
same proven and award winning cloud management platform used by BT to allow its
customers to self-serve, purchase and access cloud services online.  BT
customers will be able to use the same platform to consume or bring their own
digital services to market, helping them to simplify and accelerate their digital
transformation.

Users will gain access
to ready-made business support processes and functions to enable them to sell,
fulfil and monetise their own portfolio of digital services. Customers wanting
rapid entry into the cloud market will be able to resell BT’s existing digital
ecosystem services such as Cloud Compute, Compute Storage and Apps from BT available from
a choice of 22 locations around the world. This can be for internal consumption
or for sale to their own customers, value added re-sellers or to cross-sell to
other PCMS users.

PCMS will allow users
to curate the best services and create new business models. It offers more than
45 fully digitalised business support processes, such as product management,
customer management, user authentication, order management, service management
and billing and collections.

A single PCMS platform
with a global catalogue of business support services simplifies how customers
manage their digital services globally. PCMS supports multiple sales and
execution channels, each with the appropriate local language, currency, pricing
and contract terms.

Neil Lock, vice
president Compute, Global Services, BT, said: “PCMS brings to life a vision of
how businesses can innovate in the digital economy. It is a ready-made platform
that allows new ways for companies to digitalise, manage and build profitable
business models from their own vibrant ecosystem of consumers, producers and
innovators.

“By building on a
proven platform, businesses can confidently bring their digital services to
market within shorter timescales and concentrate time and resources on
innovation and development. It’s a great example of how BT’s Cloud of Clouds
portfolio strategy empowers customers to create new business relationships.”

PCMS has been
developed and will be offered to the market in partnership with management and
technology consultancy BearingPoint.

Angus Ward, partner
& CEO Digital Ecosystem Management (DEM), BearingPoint, said: “PCMS brings
together BearingPoint’s expertise in digital business transformation with BT’s
skills in digital platform management to provide an end-to-end digital business
service. Together, we’re working with customers to deliver real digital
business outcomes, allowing them to compete more effectively in the digital
economy.”

The platform will be
available globally during the final quarter of 2017.