Prasath L Rao 
Country Director & Region Head - India & South Asia, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

BRAND POWER
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise delivers the customized technology experiences enterprises need to make everything connect. It provides digital-age networking, communications and cloud solutions with services tailored to ensure customers’ success, with flexible business models in the cloud, on premises, and hybrid. All solutions have built-in security and limited environmental impact. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is recognized as having a Comprehensive Strategy in addressing areas such as unified access, IoT automatic containment, smart analytics that provide a strong strategy targeting enterprise IT pain points.

Over 100 years of innovation have made Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise a trusted advisor to more than a million customers all over the world. With headquarters in France and 3,400 business partners worldwide, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise achieves an effective global reach with a local focus.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise developed vertical-focused offers to address the specific needs of customers across various industries, including education, energy/utilities, government, healthcare, hospitality and transportation. This resulted in the development of innovative solutions such as remote learning, emergency notifications along with many other industry relevant solutions. This positioning is recognized by industry analysts globally as a core strength and a differentiator within the market.

The number of connected devices is exponentially growing across all industries and geographies as businesses move through the mobile and digital era. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise provides the communications and network solutions to enable these devices to be connected in an intelligent way.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is recognized as a global competitor in the communications markets, holding a strong competitive position in the business communications and data networking spaces by the leading Analyst firms such as Gartner, IDC, Frost & Sullivan and GlobalData besides many more. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is continually represented in key vendor comparison publications such as Gartner Magic Quadrant, IDC MarketScape, Frost & Sullivan.  

BRAND INNOVATION 
Analysts acknowledge Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s technology advancements and continuous innovation and the fact these are done in-house which offers many significant advantages, namely a greater consistency and unity across their full technology stack. This helps to ensure the simplicity and reliability of their network, a key aim for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is recognized as having a Comprehensive Strategy in addressing areas such as unified access, IoT automatic containment, smart analytics that provide a strong strategy targeting enterprise IT pain points.

This extends across Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s Networking and Communications portfolios where the company’s ability to deliver solutions and services that provide flexibility in deployment and are commercially seen as innovative and supporting to all business outcomes. This is regardless of the application and specific need, in the cloud, in the customer’s private data centers, or on both sides of the network edge.

A good amount of R&D works and global support services are operated out of India and therefore Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise India’s and activities conducted in India, are important to the group. All possible opportunities to expand operations in India are regularly considered and assessed at its executive management level.

This is Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s commitment to “Make in India” initiative and the company will continue to consider investment opportunities in India.