London, 25 July 2013
Colt today announces that it has been selected to design and deploy a global managed network for Fidessa, a provider of high-performance trading, investment management and information solutions. Colt’s Optimum Managed Networking service will underpin Fidessa’s plans to transform the way its employees work together across four continents, and ensure that IT can support new ways of doing business. Based on Colt’s Ethernet Private Network services, the network solution has been designed to support enhanced employee collaboration through the use of tools such as video conferencing, and to meet the business demands created by the company’s continued growth.
Colt has provided network connectivity between Fidessa and its financial services clients in the UK since 2001. This new solution, a fully managed networking service, will replace Fidessa’s existing corporate network and seamlessly connect Fidessa employees in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. The highly resilient network will also allow Fidessa to implement a number of resource-heavy applications such as SAP, while ensuring a consistently high user experience across its global offices.
Fidessa is known across the financial services industry as a provider of multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, market data and analysis, decision making and workflow technology. Each year, transactions worth $10 trillion flow across its global network.
David Awcock, IT Services Director, Fidessa, said, “When it came to reviewing the options for our corporate network, we spoke to a number of service providers. We were particularly impressed by Colt’s professional approach and in-depth understanding of our business requirements. The time that Colt invested in working closely with our team, not only in designing a technology solution with a flexible approach but also in defining the required service levels and pricing, was an important factor in our selection.”
David Awcock continued: “We’ve set the industry benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services for the financial community. It is important that our chosen service provider supports our consistently high levels of service to markets across the globe. The way that Colt approached the relationship, together with its ability to provide a managed service that follows us across the globe, tipped the balance in Colt’s favour.”
Simon Walsh, EVP, Colt, said, “Our enterprise class managed networking services, underpinned by our award-winning Ethernet network, will provide a consistent experience for Fidessa employees across four continents, optimising performance, reducing costs and making it easier for Fidessa to do business. The combination of Colt’s service management approach and our support team, acting as an extension of Fidessa’s IT team, allows Fidessa to scale rapidly and flexibly with absolute confidence. This enables the IT department to focus on business growth and new initiatives.”
Colt’s Managed Networking is just one of Colt’s Optimum services which are differentiated through their unique combination of network reach, integrated technology, service management and commercial flexibility. Colt Optimum is the name of the direct-to-enterprise portfolio covering IT, Network and Communication Services.
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About Colt
Colt is the information delivery platform, enabling its customers to deliver, share, process and store their vital business information. An established leader in delivering integrated computing and network services to major organisations, midsized businesses and wholesale customers, Colt operates a 22-country, 44,000km network that includes metropolitan area networks in 39 major European cities with direct fibre connections into 19,000 buildings and 20 carrier neutral Colt data centres.
In 2010, the Colt Data Centre Services business was launched to deliver innovative high quality data centre solutions at a Colt or customer site. Our Innovative data centres are rapid to deploy, flexible and highly efficient. In addition to its direct sales capability, Colt has four indirect channels to market; Agent, Franchise, Distributor and Wholesale which includes Carriers, Service Providers, VARs and Voice Resellers.
Colt is listed on the London Stock Exchange (COLT). Information about Colt and its services can be found at www.colt.net
About Fidessa
Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community.
New technology, new regulation, new challenges: making money in today’s financial markets is all about staying ahead of the curve. Having the capability to spot new trends and act fast turns change into opportunity. That’s why 85% of the world’s premier financial institutions trust Fidessa to provide them with their multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, their market data and analysis, and their decision making and workflow technology. It’s also why $10 trillion worth of transactions flow across our global network each year. Because we’re the market leader, we can also offer unique access to the world’s largest and most valuable trading community of buy-side and sell-side professionals, from global institutions and investment banks to boutique brokers and niche hedge funds.
Fidessa is a global business with scale, resilience, ambition and expertise. We’ve delivered around 25% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we’re recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge, integrated solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry’s number one choice.
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