• Flexible SD-WAN to connect facilities across Europe, Asia and Latin
  America
• Supports cloud applications through managed solutions and
  consulting expertise

PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Weener Plastics, a global supplier of innovative and value-added
packaging solutions, has signed a five-year, managed SD-WAN agreement
with Orange Business Services to support its global expansion. Rolling
out Flexible SD-WAN across 24 sites in Europe, Asia and Latin America,
Weener Plastics will increase agility and flexibility in its
organization, as well as improve internal communication.

Weener Plastics offers standard, as well as tailor-made and innovative
packaging solutions for its multinational customers. The company, which
has expanded globally through acquisitions, needed an agile solution to
support its rapid growth and access to cloud-based applications, such as
Office 365 and ERP software. In addition, Weener Plastics wanted a
managed solution to allow its teams to focus on their core manufacturing
business.

To keep up with changing customer demands, it is important that Weener
Plastics is physically present in its customers’ countries of operation.
Weener Plastics chose Orange Business Services because of its extensive
experience with SD-WAN, but also for its strong local presence and
homogenous portfolio of managed services and applications across all the
countries and regions in which it operates.

“Because of our rapid global expansion, we were looking for a worldwide
IT partner that could also offer local support and solutions for all of
our sites throughout the world. The Flexible SD-WAN solution provides us
with a reliable and agile network to support us during our next phase of
business. Thanks to Orange Business Services, we can focus on the things
we’re good at: developing and producing innovative plastic packaging
solutions,” said Eric den Hertog, Global IT Director at Weener Plastics.

“We are delighted to support Weener Plastics in their global expansion.
A migration to SD-WAN requires careful consideration and expertise in
making sure the solution is adequately designed with steady state
operations in mind. Through our deep knowledge and expertise with SD-WAN
solutions, we are the perfect partner for Weener Plastics’ international
ambitions,” said Fabrice de Windt, Senior Vice President Europe for
Orange Business Services.

Flexible SD-WAN
Flexible SD-WAN by Orange is a global solution that
is a fully automated, intelligent network with on-demand virtualized
services, centrally orchestrated for end-to-end performance and control.
It provides companies with a flexible and agile way to adapt the
enterprise network to user needs, and is a future-proof solution
completely integrated in Orange’s SDN architecture. Through a simple
interface, enterprises can use their network dynamically to anticipate
and respond to changes in their business environment and migrate
applications to the cloud.

Orange Business Services recently won Best Enterprise Service for
Flexible SD-WAN at the World Communication Awards 2018. In addition,
Orange Business Services was deemed a “Leader” in the IDC MarketScape:
Worldwide Communication Service Provider SD-WAN Managed Services 2018
Vendor Assessment.

About Weener Plastics
Weener Plastics is a full service global
supplier of innovative and sustainable plastic packaging solutions. The
company designs, develops and manufactures added value Caps, Closures,
Bottles and Jars for the Personal Care, Food & Beverage and Home Care
markets, specializing in Deo Packaging, Nutrition Packaging and Aerosol
Packaging. Headquartered in Ede, The Netherlands, the company employs
more than 3,000 people and has 25 facilities in 16 countries worldwide.

About Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services, the B2B
branch of the Orange Group, and its 25,000 employees, is focused on
supporting the digital transformation of multinational enterprises and
French SMEs across five continents. Orange Business Services is not only
an infrastructure operator, but also a technology integrator and a
value-added service provider. It offers companies digital solutions that
help foster collaboration within their teams (collaborative workspaces
and mobile workspaces), better serve their customers (enriched customer
relations and business innovation), and support their projects (enriched
connectivity, flexible IT and cyberdefense). The integrated technologies
that Orange Business Services offer range from Software Defined Networks
(SDN/NFV), Big Data and IoT, to cloud computing, unified communications
and collaboration, as well as cybersecurity. Orange Business Services
customers include over 3,000 renowned multinational corporations at an
international level and over two million professionals, companies and
local communities in France.

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