Our Customers

We serve more than 35,000 organisations in 21 countries across Europe. Our customers are organisations in both the private and public sector ranging from multinational or national corporations to smaller companies in a single city location.

Customers use our pan-European network reach as a gateway to doing business in Europe or to complement their own network and services capabilities. Here are some examples of how we respond to our customers’ different needs:

• Financial services: Every day our network carries trillions of Euros worth of transactions securely and reliably, enabling the mission-critical trading activities of financial markets to operate.  

• Legal: Sharing, storing and protecting information is vital to the legal sector. Law firms increasingly use sophisticated information, document management and billing systems. We help them to do so with efficiency, reliability and security. 

• Media: Media customers rely on us to deliver and protect their creative work. In an online world this also means managing ever increasing volumes of rich content and media. We can handle this capacity with guaranteed resilience. 

• Healthcare and Government: We work with national and local government organisations and healthcare providers who depend on us to deliver and manage their information with the utmost security. We can help customers comply with data protection legislation across Europe requiring transfer, control 0and storage of sensitive data. 

Read some customer case studies to find out how Colt has helped its customers to align their IT and business needs.

Education

The University of Rotterdam has 28,000 students, 2,800 teaching and support staff. Colt provides a fibre optic network as well as Voice over IP and fixed telephony – so that everyone involved has access to the same information and programmes.

Employment Services

Infoempleo, a leading employment and training centre in Spain, use Colt's platform to manage 5m CVs with high availability.

Entertainment

Tick Tack Ticket, a leading ticket agency in Spain, use Colt so that their customers can access event information with secure online payment.

Finance

Fidelity is a global investment management company. Colt operates and monitors Fidelity’s new data centre facility, providing a scalable platform to meet future business demands. 

Colt offers Degussa Bank a communication solution combining IP Voice with intelligent call management. This ensures that customer service centre processes are optimised and seamlessly integrated with other departments. 

Poalim Asset Management (UK), a leading subsidiary of Israel’s largest financial group, Bank Hapoalim, is a key player in today’s global financial market. The company provides a wide range of investment banking services to investors around the world.

Aurelius Capital Management (ACM) is an asset management company that specialises in structured credit products and fixed income.

Health 

AOK is a Health insurer in Germany with over 25 million policy holders, 56,000 employees in approximately 1,600 branches. We provided a fully supported MPLS network with provisioning, monitoring and operational responsibility for their web-based communication platform, using two Colt high security data centres. 

Hospitality 

ABBA Hotels uses Colt’s scalable solution to centralize their telecommunication services to all hotels in a single data centre. 

Insurance

Neversa eG is an insurance service provider in Germany. Colt implemented cloud based services in conjunction with IP-based data and voice transmission. All relevant software applications are provided “on demand”.  

As the largest provider of electronic messaging technology to the London Insurance Market, TriSystems is at the heart of helping brokers and underwriters to communicate with each other via the Exchange. Colt’s Enterprise Cloud Service enables delivery of Lime-St.com, a reliable, scalable online solution delivered as a service to brokers.

Industrial

Colt offers high speed and availability VPN to Facq at the lowest price

IT Security

McAfee, the world's largest dedicated security technology company, offerers its software security services to both businesses and home users throughout the world. The flexibility offered by Smart Office enabled McAfee to turn to Colt as a single source of network provision, from day to day connectivity and voice access to Internet and data access solutions, all from a single provider.

Legal

Bird & Bird, a rapidly growing international law firm needed a low latency hosting and network infrastructure to support its IT systems. Colt’s combined data centre and Ethernet solution has delivered minimal latency with maximum flexibility.  

Local Government 

HTM is a public transport operator based in the Netherlands, carrying nearly 130 million passengers a year. Colt connects their data centres and major offices with a high-speed highly reliable network.  

Property Development 

Cushman & Wakefield, the world's largest real estate consultancy, chose Colt to connect its branches in Europe, securely and efficiently. 

Public

VERA serves around 85% of the local government organisations in Belgium's Flemish Brabant province. Many of these organisations are too small to justify having their own in-house ICT teams.

The Cloud Infrastructure Service's pay-as-you-grow charging model lets VERA pay only for the capacity it uses. With no need for capital investment in servers and other infrastructure elements, the company can budget more easily and make more effective use of its funding resources.

Telecommunications and IT

Colt demonstrates the benefits of a Unified Communications and Collaboration strategy.

Steria is an international IT outsourcing company and has been designing, implementing and managing bespoke end-to-end IT projects for over 25 years.