PLDT Enterprise, in collaboration with Cisco, recently hosted a Transformative Success Workshop focusing on their new digital solutions. These solutions will serve as a much-welcome helping hand in in the vastness of manufacturing, retail, and logistics sectors. As such, they are highlighted by their Managed SD-WAN and Managed Network Service offerings.
The event, which brought together industry experts and business leaders, showcased how PLDT Enterprise’s Managed SD-WAN service can enhance network resiliency and management while providing seamless cloud access and integrated security features.
“At PLDT Enterprise, we are committed to driving the success of businesses across various industries with solutions like Managed SD-WAN,” said Mitch Locsin, First Vice President and Head of Enterprise and International Core Business at PLDT and Smart. “Leveraging this solution empowers businesses to optimize network management, strengthen operational resilience, elevate the customer experience, and drive success through seamless, efficient operations.”
Cisco’s Product Sales Specialist, Herns Hermida, emphasized their focus on user experience: “Everything we do is focused on assuring that end-users have a great experience with the network, so they can focus on what matters to them. We deliver high-level experience scoring, pinpoint client interaction data, and AI functionality dedicated to end-user experience improvement.”
Several business leaders shared their experiences with PLDT Enterprise’s solutions. Dax Solomon, Head of Technology Operations at Coca-Cola Beverages, highlighted their interest in Managed Network Services to focus on core operations. “We have been a PLDT Enterprise partner for a long time, with a lot of our abilities powered by their solutions. One solution we’re particularly interested in exploring is Managed Network Services, which would allow us to offload concerns about non-essential operations. We are a manufacturing company, and the bottom line is that we need to be focused on strategies on how to enable productivity.”
“There are so many struggles with our network, and we need this technology like [Managed] SD-WAN. PLDT Enterprise’s services are focused on our network infrastructure, and whenever they have new technologies, they are proactive in offering this kind of innovations because it is necessary nowadays,” said Vikings Group of Restaurant’s IT Manager, Mulong Sermonia III, acknowledging the necessity of SD-WAN technology for addressing network challenges.
Greggy Mendoza, IT Technical Support Assistant from Bruno’s Services Corporation, highlighted that, “We have over 70 branches nationwide, and some of them have problems with infrastructure. With the [Managed] SD-WAN, we are looking forward to alleviating those problems since our network is critical to drive the company’s operations.”
Rhyan Michael Celis, AVP for IT Technical Services at St. Peter Life Plan, Inc., shared, “We have a lot of branches nationwide so one of the challenges that we are facing right now is connectivity. That is why we are partnering with PLDT Enterprise in terms of providing internet connection to our sites nationwide. Aside from the interconnection of our branches, we are also thinking of having a customized network or solution for us, tailor-fit for our requirements.”
“It’s a single point-of-contact providing ITSM-based proactive support center that handles orchestration and fulfillment of aftersales concerns; from maintaining and planning, up to optimizing and improving an organization’s Wide-Area Network,” shared Jett Tinio, Vice President and Head of Managed Network Services for Fixed and Wireless at ePLDT. “In the Philippines, PLDT Enterprise is the only one in the market who offers something like this. And we offer you a true end-to-end data-driven network management service with full control and visibility of the network,” he added.
The company’s solutions align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG No. 9, focusing on Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. As the corporate business arm of PLDT, the leading telecommunications and digital services provider in the Philippines, PLDT Enterprise continues to enable businesses to adapt to evolving technological needs while optimizing efficiency, continuity, and connectivity.
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