Orange launches Orange Integrate to give businesses better control over phone orders

Orange announced the launch of Orange Integrate – a secure purchasing solution for its large business customers, making it easier for them to manage their device fleet & employee mobility. With the product, employees can order new phones and accessories directly, choosing from a pre-authorised range, and a fully auditable approval process means peace of mind. Businesses can also save time and money by easily keeping control of the phones and accessories that are ordered.

Orange Integrate works by joining an organisation’s catalogue of Orange handsets and accessories with its existing eProcurement system in a single, easy to use platform. This means that customers can access their Orange product catalogue – which is hosted in a secure environment – using their own familiar systems.

Once the system is fully live, organisations can benefit from:

* Ability to choose the handsets and accessories
* Option to set the approval process for orders
* Option to choose who’s allowed to order what
* Opportunity to free up IT and purchasing resource
* No hold up with paper work or phone orders as the order goes direct to Orange

Michael Lawrence, Head of Corporate Propositions at Orange UK said, “Orange is committed to making it easier for our customers to manage their accounts the way they want to. Businesses looking to get the benefits of eProcurement for their mobile communications don’t necessarily need to make major investment to do so. By understanding the benefits of consolidating existing systems rather than having multiple systems, customers will feel the benefits by saving both time and money.”

Orange Integrate is an Orange-branded solution, which is hosted and managed by leading eCommerce provider ProcServe. It is compatible with most purchasing solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Ariba and Zanzibar and available from the Orange direct sales team.

About Orange UK
Orange is the key brand of the France Telecom Group, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. With 131.8 million customers, the Orange brand now covers Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the Group operates.

In the UK, Orange provides high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population, and 3G coverage to more than 93%. At the end of March 2010, Orange had more than 17.305 million customers in the UK - 16.442 million active mobile customers and approximately 863,000 fixed line internet customers.

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Brand Services Limited.

On July 1 2010, the company became part of Everything Everywhere, one company that runs two of Britain's most famous brands - Orange UK and T-Mobile UK - with plans to transform the industry by giving customers instant access to everything, everywhere, offering them the best value, best choice and best network coverage in the country. Everything Everywhere Limited is registered at Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9BW under the registered company number 02382161.

For more information please call the Orange Press Office 0870 3731500, or visit www.orange.co.uk/newsroom

About ProcServe
ProcServe provides fast, flexible and secure electronic marketplaces and trading connectivity solutions. ProcServe's hosted, custom-branded solutions provide customers with the unique ability to leverage a software-as-a-service solution and maintain their own uniquely branded and configured marketplace. Customers enjoy a faster solution set up, lower cost of maintenance, and a secure environment. ProcServe is part of the Oracle PartnerNetwork. ProcServe also delivers Zanzibar, OPEN and xchangewales marketplaces on behalf of the UK Public Sector. For more information, please visit www.procserve.com.