Connected Enterprise

Driving productivity, innovation and growth are easier if you’re more closely connected to your customers, employees, partners and business. Being able to transform your organisation to meet these needs requires vision, drive and a business partner that understands what you need now and in the future.

A Connected Enterprise utilises technology to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of all its assets and operations, which in turn delivers a significant competitive edge.

Technology helps organisations to boost productivity, improve collaboration between employees, engage and meet existing and new customer needs, and streamline their business operations. It also enables them to innovate and deliver new products and services to market faster.

Characteristics of a connected enterprise include:

• More productive employees and capital equipment across their operations. They are better able to manage and utilise all assets to help boost productivity and efficiency. They do this by having more efficient systems and processes in place, allowing them to extract maximum utility and value across their operations
• Higher levels of employee collaboration and engagement, resulting in more efficient and effective work across an enterprise as well as better employee enagagement
• Greater levels of responsiveness to customer or market imperatives, since they can sense changes more quickly and deploy or redeploy corporate assets or capital more quickly to meet whatever challenges are thrown their way
• Higher levels of innovation since technology acts as a catalyst not just for Research & Development, but also ongoing product and service development, marketing and sales initiatives
• The ability to meet sustainability initiatives, since a connected enterprise provides greater control and better management systems to reduce carbon or other environmental hazards.

The way to stay on top of today's rapidly changing business conditions is to outpace your competitors and exceed your customers' needs.

Using Telstra's Connected Enterprise themes as a strategic framework, you'll empower your business using four interconnected solutions that help address the critical issues facing business today:  competitiveness, responsiveness, innovation, sustainability and productivity.

The foundation is Business Ready Networks – a network platform with the ability to adapt to changing and complex needs, plus the reliability to ensure IT dependent functions work like clockwork. A Modern Meeting is one where you use improved communication tools to boost engagement and collaboration to reach an agreed objective faster. Connecting People and Organisations can provide better access and engagement with people within and outside your organisation, driving greater collaboration and productivity. Telstra Cloud Services gives you a highly secure information, communication and technology (ICT) infrastructure 'in the clouds', with immediate access to enterprise ICT and business applications and services on a simple pay-per-use model.

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Business Ready Networks

Is your network ready for business? Your people can work smarter, your processes can be streamlined and your service delivery simplified when you’re running on a secure and intelligent network that adapts with your complex needs. With seamless connectivity, a Business Ready Network knows who is connected to it, which applications and devices are being used, and optimises this information to provide the best user experience. This lets you rapidly add new services and gives you the flexibility to quickly expand into new markets. And you can relax knowing that your data is secure, with Telstra’s managed security continually monitoring against intrusion and maintaining your business continuity.

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Modern Meetings

Revolutionise the way your people connect, collaborate and embrace a more efficient, productive and informed workplace. Modern meetings transform your disparate phone systems, mobiles, video conferencing, teleconferencing, emails, and applications into a connected, integrated and easy-to-use communications solution. So your people can locate each other and communicate seamlessly – in more ways and more places – help improving teamwork. Quick communications also help you use your time more effectively, make faster and better-informed decisions, increase sustainability by using video and teleconferencing technology instead of physical travel, and improve staff teamwork and engagement by using ICT solutions.

Connecting People and Organisations

These days, long distances and multiple locations don’t need to impact on communication. Connecting People and Organisations offers a secure system that delivers text, email, mobile data, Instant Messaging, voice, integrated messaging, IP telephony and high-definition video across your entire organisation. With interconnected media across multiple locations, your staff, partners and customers can communicate fluidly in the office, on the road, at home or overseas. People can make fast, informed decisions, as well as track, monitor and communicate with vital field staff, assets and equipment. And most importantly, with access to business applications, customer files, calendars and addresses from anywhere, your staff can deliver superior customer service.

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Komatsu Australia Pty Ltd case study (PDF, 1.3MB)

Telstra Teleworking case study (PDF, 2.8MB)

Cloud computing

Telstra Cloud Services is the smart way to get the ICT you need – without the expense of owning and maintaining it. You can take advantage of a complete portfolio of services to obtain the latest communications, business applications, servers, storage and security – all on a pay for use basis. Telstra Cloud Services are ready for now and the future with a roadmap of smart innovations to meet your evolving business needs. Delivered across Australia’s most secure and far-reaching network with agreed service levels, you have the widest access and reliability that’s second to none.

Learn more about Telstra Connected Clouds

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