Build Business incorporates an application developed by BIW Technologies (BIW), the industry’s e-business leader, and is being offered with BT hardware and connectivity services, to create a hassle-free, collaborative environment to enable customers to focus on their core business.
Many organisations use collaborative environments to create standard, streamlined approaches to design and construction projects, but Build Business offers the first total package to address entire project lifecycles – from planning and build through to maintenance. However, delivering ICT to sites often means balancing satisfactory service with low overheads.
Build Business addresses this, cutting total cost of ownership and capital on the books, and reducing IT risk with its Subscription Computing service. This service means BT can provide the IT infrastructure – supplying and managing desktops, peripherals, servers, networks and applications.
Brian Crouch, general manager, international sector at BT Retail said: “Collaboration tools typically shave off around 1.5 per cent of a project’s value, but customers can save more by handing over the burden of running their core infrastructure. Applying our communications expertise to technology solutions with BIW offers the industry a fresh alternative for improving profitability.”
Colin Smith, chief executive of BIW, said: “The internet has afforded our industry a great leap of faith in the last few years but Build Business will further unlock the medium’s potential for us. I’m delighted that by collaborating with BT, we have an opportunity to go one step further.”
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Further information can be found at www.bt.com/buildbusiness or please contact: Jon Carter, Press Officer, BT Retail: tel: 020 7356 4523 or Adam Keal, Fishburn Hedges: tel: 020 7839 4321
Notes to editors:
- BT Retail is one of the businesses that make up the BT Group. Others include BT Ignite, BT Wholesale, BT Openworld and BTexact Technologies. It is the UK´s leading communications service provider and the prime channel to market for the other businesses in the Group. It has 21 million residential and business customers, a turnover of £12.1bn (in the last full financial year) and around 50,000 employees.
- BIW Technologies´ core business is providing web-delivered applications to the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) community. BIW works with clients, contractors, consultants and other industry organisations to develop tools that capture all the technical information associated with projects, creating a living archive so that owners can operate and maintain their facilities more efficiently. The UK market-leading BIW Information Channel collaboration service is already employed on over 1100 UK schemes worth some £10 billion, with some 22,000 users from over 2600 companies. Clients include Sainsbury´s, housebuilders Crest Nicholson and the Peabody Trust, Marks & Spencer, BAA, the Ministry of Defence, O2, Asda and the Wellcome Trust.
