Altran - Press & News

25/10/2011

Altran joins Alcatel-Lucent's 'ng Connect' program

ng Connect is a global initiative led by Alcatel-Lucent that brings together infrastructure, device, application and content companies to create an end-to-end ecosystem with all resources and expertise required to deliver next generation innovative services and applications that simplify and enrich the user experience.

It is composed of 80+ innovative international independent companies, all working together to ideate, develop, validate and showcase new service concepts.

This initiative is focusing on unleashing the potential of next generation technologies and to drive business models that create paths to new revenue for the entire value chain. It is aimed to accelerate the deployment of new services across the Entertainment, Retail, Health and Wellness, Connected Learning and Transportation markets.

As connectivity rapidly converges in ways that are transforming how people live, work and play, the companies able to quickly meet the massive, and still largely untapped, demand for connected services will lead and even shape tomorrow’s market. But no individual company has the resources or the expertise required to rapidly develop the innovative services users want, to create profitable new business models, and to remove all the business and technical barriers to mass adoption.

It is a great opportunity for Altran to integrate an innovative ecosystem working on tomorrow’s connected world. It gives our company the ability to collaborate with other members to develop and demonstrate end-to-end solutions. As a service company positioned on innovation, it provides access to world-class proof-of-concept laboratory resources in a collaborative environment, to develop new business models, including ways to monetize investments.