Honours go to BT innovation teams

BT has received global recognition for its research teams and leadership at a prestigious innovation awards ceremony in the south of France.

Honours went to two research teams from BT Innovate & Design (BTID), and Phil Dance, managing director of Adastral Park - home to BT’s global development centre in Suffolk - at the TM Forum Excellence Awards.

A research team from the applications and services research practice picked up the Business Excellence Award for Innovation. The team - led by Nektarios Georgalas and John Wittgreffe - worked with Ontology Systems to develop a semantic toolset under the banner of ‘accelerating business transformation’.

John said: “We are delighted to receive this award, which demonstrates once more that BTID research is at the cutting edge of the most important innovations in our industry. As BT continues to develop new transformational platforms, especially in the cloud computing arena, this tool will help us do so faster and more profitably.”

Shortlisted

Meanwhile, Phil received a Distinguished Fellow Award from the TM Forum, recognising his - and BT’s - long-standing contribution to the Forum’s work as a standards body to the communications industry.

And BTID was also shortlisted for Cloud Service Broker - a product which has been developed as a way to reduce some of the barriers to the take up of cloud services.