AT&T Solutions charts aggressive growth course
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By John Rendleman, PC Week Online
August 11, 1998 5:10 pm ET
RALEIGH, N.C. --- AT&T Solutions, the
unit of the telecommunications giant that
provides outsourcing and managed services
for corporate clients, has its sights set on an
aggressive revenue growth plan.
The company, which will ring up about $1
billion in sales this year, expects by 2002 to
reach $4 billion in annual revenues, said Jim
Pagos, president and managing partner of AT&T Solutions Worldwide,
at a press event here today at the company's Global Customer Support
Center.
That growth will be based on a steady stream of enhancements to the
company's current offerings and a mix of new services for corporate
data networks, Pagos said. "Those solutions are what we're working on
in real time as we speak," he said.
Among the planned advances, AT&T Solutions on Monday will
enhance its GEMS (Global Enterprise Management System) to deliver
better trouble tickets and more predictive and proactive management
features, said Ed Nalbandian, managing partner of the Managed
Network Services unit of the Florham Park, N.J., company.
The GEMS upgrade will also offer improved disaster-recovery
capabilities, a feature that detects intrusions into customers' networks
and new "electronic bonding" capabilities between AT&T's network and
customers' networks that let users monitor and control their networks
via the Web, Nalbandian said.
Other areas AT&T Solutions plans to target include managed firewall
services, tunneling, authentication server management, administration
services for domain names, administration of IP addresses and network
address translation services, Nalbandian said. In the WAN arena, the
company is also developing ATM support solutions for router-switched
networks.
AT&T Solutions also will push its managed services further into
monitoring corporate servers and desktop applications, and assessing
the year 2000 compliance of client networks, officials said.
AT&T Solutions can be reached at www.att.com/solutions/. |
