Better integration means stronger financial results

Mergers and acquisitions offer tremendous opportunity for growth and adding value. Of course, realising those benefits is complex, risky and far from guaranteed. In fact, industry analysts agree that about 50% of acquisitions fail to achieve their targets, typically because of poor integration. But there’s an upside.

Companies with effective IT integration are more likely to achieve better financial results and to describe the deal as a success. We have an impressive track record in delivering against business case targets, bringing integration synergies to each acquisition; ensuring key capabilities are retained and not diluted; and maintaining effective communication with all stakeholders.

Improve identity and access management

Protect your business and empower your people

While it’s imperative to protect your business against ID theft and fraud, it’s also vital to be able to share data and systems with the people you trust. This is increasingly important when business depends on flexible working, online services, and collaborative relationships with customers and suppliers.

With BT identity and access management services you can identify and authorise customers, partners and employees with confidence. Through policy, process and technology, we’ll work with you to provide safer access, meet regulatory requirements, empower your mobile workforce, and expand your business online.

BT has over ten years experience delivering global identity and access management services. For example, we worked with TD Waterhouse to transform authentication for new customer accounts – reducing validation time from hours to minutes.

Manage risk and compliance

Empower your business to grow with effective IT governance

Managing risk and compliance isn’t just about dealing with legislation and security threats. It’s about creating a framework for IT governance that empowers your company to grow. Companies with effective IT governance strategies tend to be more profitable, have better credit ratings, and enjoy increased confidence from customers, investors and other key stakeholders.

BT will work with your business to manage compliance across your networked IT infrastructure, and enable you to understand and manage the risks associated with operating in a networked environment. We have extensive experience designing, delivering and managing effective IT governance frameworks, encompassing processes, services and solutions such as the BT Risk Cockpit™ – a unique executive dashboard and reporting tool.

You can benefit from our own experience as a highly regulated business, operating across multiple geographies and compliance regimes.

Optimise network-centric security

Protect your business, your data and your reputation

In a networked operating environment, more information is available to more users, including an increasing number of people outside your organisation. The challenge is keeping your data secure, ensuring the right people have access to the information they need, and being able to anticipate and respond to security threats – from viruses and ad-hoc attacks, to organised criminal activity.

BT provides an extensive range of technologies, professional services and managed services to optimise security for your networked business. We’ll work with you to assess security threats, build layered defences into your networked IT and communication systems, and provide realtime security management and monitoring. As a result, you’ll be better able to anticipate and respond to threats, provide secure access to information and services, and protect your operations, your data, and your reputation.

Large organisations across the world trust BT as their security partner, including Unilever and CLSA. We have security accreditations from trusted organisations including FIRST, CERT, FIPS, and NSA and are compliant with key industry standards including ISO 27001 and ISO 17799.