<p>Global integrator of communications services for multinational corporations, Orange Business Services has announced it will provide a multinational cloud-based unified communications service to 3M to improve collaboration and increase productivity among 3M's 20,000 employees at 75 sites in 25 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Implementation of the offering, Business Together as a Service, will take place on a site-by-site basis with 16,000 seats being rolled out by the end of 2014 and the remaining in the following three years. 3M plans to extend the scope to Asia Pacific and Latin America. Business Together as a Service is a suite of on-demand collaboration offerings that complements the global wide area network and voice services that Orange Business Services already provides to 3M in 60 countries and mobile services in Europe. To fit the 3M requirements, Orange Business Services integrated IBM Sametime instant messaging, presence, telephony, IBM Lotus Notes and voice mail services into the offering. Through a customised self-service Web portal, 3M users will be assigned to one of five standardised user profiles based on their specific needs. The pay-as-you-grow financial model of Business Together as a Service means that each business group will be invoiced monthly for the profiles it users and will be able to easily scale the profiles up or down through the web portal depending on changing organisational needs.</p><p><a href="http://www.telecompaper.com/news/orange-to-provide-cloud-based-unified-communications-to-3m--939228">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130423005302/en/Orange-Business-Services-provide-multinational-cloud-based-unified">Orange Business Services to provide multinational cloud-based unified ...</a> (Business Wire (press release))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dOKU5-M4jWBGX7Mo92A0J267cZT8M&ned=us">3 additional articles.</a></p>