Colt & Lumen EMEA integration: IDC reports behind the scenes
New content series
As we work through the integration of Lumen EMEA into the Colt business, we wanted to share insights from behind the scenes on our progress so far and what’s coming up next. For this, we’ve sponsored IDC to write a series of Spotlight papers that cover the integration on the topics of people and culture, networks, and products and solutions.
All three papers are now available:
Series background
In November 2023, we acquired Lumen EMEA. In practical terms, this included the acquisition of:
The acquisition elevates us to one of the world’s largest business-to-business digital infrastructure companies and an influential global player. Since we broke the news, there has been a great level of interest from customers, partners and prospects on how the integration is progressing.
In this new series, IDC look into key aspects of the integration and share their perspective on the underlying drivers, our progress so far and areas to focus on.
IDC are creating three short papers (Vendor Spotlights) and one video which will come out in early 2025.
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The paper topics are:
Available now
Bringing People Together
Written by IDC Analyst Chris Silberberg, the first paper looks into the critical role that people play in acquisitions and how we're merging the two teams together into our new organisation.
Available now
Bringing Networks Together
Written by IDC Analysts Len Padilla, Bruno Teyton and Chris Barnard, paper two looks at how we're integrating the Lumen EMEA network assets and managing the customer experience.
Available now
Bringing Products & Solutions Together
Written by IDC Analysts Jan Hein Bakkers and James Eibisch, the final paper looks at how we're bringing together the Colt and Lumen EMEA products and solutions portfolio.
Authors:
PAPER #1
Chris Silberberg
IDC Research Manager, European Telco Insights
PAPER #2
Len Padilla
IDC Senior Research Director, European Networks and Life-Cycle Services
PAPER #2
Bruno Teyton
IDC Associate Vice President, Telecommunications and Networking
PAPER #2
Chris Barnard
IDC Vice President, European Telecom and Infrastructure
PAPER #3
Jan Hein Bakkers
Senior Research Director, European Infrastructure and Telecoms
PAPER #3
James Eibisch
Research Director, EMEA Telecoms and Networking
