The integration of GTL's Enterprise and Managed Services unit with France Telecom subsidiary Orange Business Services’ existing operations is expected to be completed by next month.

“We are well ahead of our plan and by the first quarter of this year we will be an integrated team going to the market,” said Sanjay Vig, CEO, Orange Business Services.

Orange Business Services acquired the Enterprise and Managed Services divisions of GTL Limited in July last year. Orange said that it would benefit by the integration and provide better services to the Indian and multinational corporations (MNCs) in the areas of PBX/IP voice solutions; WAN/LAN integration and optimization; CRM solutions and CRM application integration capabilities; on-site and remote management of networks, servers, desktops and security services.

“To begin with, the focus of the integrated team will be on the Indian market as we would take time to leverage the entire integrated portfolio to the overseas market,” said Vig.

Vig added that the company plans to eye Indian domestic players entering global markets, by providing the necessary end-to-end infrastructure solutions.

This is a shift in the Orange strategy where the company focused primarily on Europe-based companies setting operations in India. The company is also open to acquiring potential companies in the Indian market. “Both inorganic and organic method is necessary for growth,” added Vig.

Orange Business Services is present in 220 countries having completely owned mobile networks in 23 countries operated under its banner. The company states that it would spend around a billion Euro on R&D in 2008.