about the Orange WebTV

Orange Business TV is for all types of companies, from small and medium companies to large multinationals. Above all, our objective is to bring strong value added news and information by keeping a technological eye on the problems faced by companies today.

Why have Orange Business TV ?

Orange Business TV is part of a simple concept: Orange Business Services has a large number of passionate experts eager to discuss all types of ICT topics as they relate to companies today. Therefore, it was natural to create a video library of corporate best practices.

We listen to the ideas proposed by our customers but we also open Orange Business TV to the broader ICT community.

Today, Orange Business TV is an international WebTV community that offers debates, demos and expert testimonials. For example, we address the issues tied to security, mobility and Green IT by bringing the principal ICT players to the table and, at the same time, we offer tricks of the trade, golden rules and advice for companies of all sizes.

Who will be most interested in Orange Business TV ?

Orange Business TV is not only relevant to ICT specialists. People who are curious about new trends in IT and communications or innovation can also derive useful information on videoconferencing, social media, new organizational challenges, M2M, cloud computing and fixed-mobile convergence.

a community

WebTV is at the heart of an open community that brings together the Orange Business Services "B2B" websites and blogs. This B2B label is based on the relevance and quality of the professional content offered, whether it is related to IT or not. The purpose is to help orient professionals toward web sources that allow people to improve their professional expertise. The purpose of the Orange B2B label is to allow community members to share their experiences and their perspectives with the heart of an extended professional network.

Themes

The principal WebTV themes are below. We will expand this list as needed based on what is most interesting to our audience:

  • Application performance : This theme covers application performance management in the connected world, including different types of technologies, service level agreements, and alignment of application performance with industry needs.

  • Telecommunications in emerging markets : This theme covers the challenges and solutions to technical and regulatory issues of IT management in emerging markets.

  • Green IT and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) : Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility are among the most important priorities of corporate managers today. In this area, we'll analyze the potential contribution of Green IT on the ecological impact of businesses.

  • Mobility : We review the challenges arising through the development of global mobility and explain how to cross borders in order to maximize common corporate benefits.

  • Innovation : This category covers innovation in terms of ICT technologies and addresses other topics such as security, application performance, response time optimization as well as end-user productivity.

  • Telephony and VoIP : Here we cover the best practices and the principal lessons learned from IP telephony, including examples and market trends, etc. We will also review how to address organizational challenges, from fixed-mobile convergence and upcoming telephony developments.

  • Collaboration : This section is dedicated to collaborative technologies, the context of these technologies and how they are used to help improve communication both internally and externally, with the objective to maximize the benefits for external communications. This section also covers the use of new Web 2.0 technologies, used to transform the company, which is commonly called Enterprise 2.0.

French blogs

  • Blog of blogs
    This blog summarizes the latest articles posted on the Orange Business Services blogs and websites, as well as new features of our sites, blogs, WebTV and publications.

  • Security blog
    This blog is dedicated to network and IT security and covers a wide range of security players. The purpose of this blog is to present the big picture of security, viral attacks and prevention and to allow security experts to share their experiences and best practices.

  • Live blog (French)
    Orange Business Live is our annual event for international clients. In June 2008, the Berlin event instigated many interesting discussions and debates about the impact of ICT on businesses. Our Live blog was created so that these discussions can continue to take place on the web.

  • Virtualization blog
    Dedicated to server, application, and desktop virtualization, this blog covers all the virtualization players. This blog presents the bigger picture of issues surrounding server, application, storage and desktop (thin-client) virtualization, vmware, Citrix XenDesktop, VDI, Microsoft RDS, Microsoft TSE and Hyper-V, etc., and allows virtualization experts to share their experiences and best practices.

English blogs