MANILA, Philippines — Bayan Business, the corporate and business unit of Lopez-owned telecommunications company Bayan Telecommunications, Inc., recently held a customer event to highlight its managed service offerings in the market, as part of its Bayan Business Managed Service (MS) Awareness Day campaign at the Decagon Silvercity in Fontera Verde, Pasig City.

Some 150 decision makers composed of CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT managers and building administrators of Bayan Business client companies attended the event that featured a Bayan Business Virtual Olympics, where participating guests showed off their skill and prowess in playing different arcade games organized in tournament-style.

Chito Franco, head of Bayan Business, welcomed attendees to the event and cited the company’s plethora offerings of expert-driven IT services to suit the requirements of today’s businesses.

“We sincerely hope that you (customers) continue your business journey with us; because we want to be the experts you can personally rely on for your business,” Franco said.

Managed Services is the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility to managed service providers as a strategic method for their improved, effective and efficient operations.

Global consulting giant Forrester in a 2010 commissioned market study revealed that global managed services growth will outpace technology growth and estimated that the global opportunity in managed services market will reach $217 billion by 2014.

Companies today avail of managed services for varied reasons such as to reduce costs, including traditional service fees, hardware, IT operations, and transport; ease adoption of new business processes; increase levels of support and network availability without additional staff; make the IT budget more stable and predictable; provide access to the latest technology with limited risk and access to an enhanced skills base; make it easier to adapt to changing business conditions; and enable businesses to focus on their core business.

Bayan Business’ outstanding managed service offerings includes Managed Customer Premise Equipment (CPE); Equipment & Office Co-Location; Network Monitoring System; Professional Services; Remote Technical Support Service; Cloud Computing; Hosted Contact Center; IP PBX; Disaster Recovery Site; Managed Security; Virtual Private Server; Command Center; VOIP/SIP gateway; Managed Wifi and Managed WAN.

Anthony Jay A. Rosal, head of Bayan Business’ Managed Services, said Bayan Business has experienced tremendous growth in the past several years and has expanded its service portfolio to include Managed Services.

“We’re making Infrastructure and Technology easy and available for customers. We are here as their partners to share this load as clients move along their own your initiatives. And we invite them to share in this excitement as we push forward in providing more customer-oriented services.”