Following the launch of their ‘InPartnership Programme’, Outsourcery is delighted to announce Nokia as their 1st Strategic Partner. Nokia and Outsourcery have embarked upon a joint venture aiming to promote the widespread adoption of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) on Nokia mobile devices through their Partner network. Nokia’s reliable, cost effective smartphone’s and Microsoft OCS will allow companies to interact with stakeholders in real time, driving greater efficiencies and profitability for businesses.
Microsoft OCS offers a simple and effective way to empower real time communication in business, featuring instant messaging, audio and video conferencing and live meeting capabilities. The big benefits to users of the MicrosoftMobile Communicator pre-configured Nokia handset users are that all these features are live and ready to use the moment the handset is activated.
The first initiative involves promoting Microsoft Mobile Communicator-ready Nokia handsets to Outsourcery Partners; this being the first of many upcoming projects to promote the use of Mobile Communicator on smartphones including the Nokia E72 and Nokia E52. Future initiatives will involve Outsourcery managing Nokia’s 30 day free trial programme of MicrosoftMobile Communicator on Nokia smartphones. By teaming up with Outsourcery, Nokia have enabled their customers to activate unified communication on mobiles.
Simon Howitt, Channel Business Unit Director for Outsourcery said, “We have received a tremendous response since launching the InPartnership programme and by reaching agreement with Nokia to become our first Strategic Partner shows the offering is spot on. Coming on the back of the Microsoft Worldwide Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year Award, this partnership with Nokia is an indicator of the progress Outsourcery is making in business messaging and unified communications.”
Jon Corbett, Services Marketing Manager for Nokia UK said “This partnership is a great opportunity to drive real growth for UK businesses through Microsoft Mobile Communicator on Nokia devices. The combination of these solutions with Outsourcery’s expertise in service provision, offers business customers a unique opportunity to enhance the productivity and responsiveness of their workforce and drive real growth.”
Alex Danyluk – Industry Director, Communications Sector at Microsoft said, “Our alliance with Nokia aims to bring the Microsoft Office productivity experience to the millions of people using Nokia smartphones around the world. By joining together Microsoft’s productivity solutions with Nokia’s large customer base through Outsourcery, the three companies are able to serve the needs of the growing mobile worker population, which IDC estimates to reach 1 billion worldwide in 2011.”*
*IDC, Worldwide Mobile Worker Population 2009–2013 Forecast, Doc. #221309, Dec 2009.
Howitt continued, “This collaboration is the first of a number of other agreements and we are in advanced discussions with other potential Strategic Partners and expect to announce more agreements over the coming weeks.”
About Nokia
At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.2 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device – from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more. Nokia’s NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and solutions for communications networks globally.
About Outsourcery
Outsourcery is leading the UK market in the provision of an integrated channel offering covering mobile-centric unified communications (UC) and hosted IT solutions to businesses, having acquired an HMC platform in 2007, a Dynamics CRM business (Increase CRM) in early 2009 and a hosted iPBX business (Reality Telecom Limited) in early 2010.
Following an investment of £10 million the company has its own state-of-the-art data centre and hosting infrastructure to provide managed services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) IT solutions such as hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and UC solutions using the leading BroadWorks® platform from Broadsoft®.
Microsoft named Outsourcery in the 2010 Worldwide Partner Awards, held in Washington DC, as their ‘Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year’. As the UK’s number one provider of hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Outsourcery was also named as ‘Microsoft Dynamics Hosting Partner of the Year’ and named in the Presidents Club for Microsoft Dynamics; an elite group of strategic partners whose sales achievement ranks them in the highest echelon of the Microsoft Dynamics global network of partners. Outsourcery is also Microsoft’s UK launch partner for UC.
A Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with a total of seven competencies, the company employs more than 230 staff based in three UK offices. With an annual turnover of circa £44 million, Outsourcery is the UK’s No.1 independent provider of business mobile solutions. It supports the customer bases for Vodafone and O2, providing mobile voice and data solutions to approximately 10,000 organisations and over 100,000 business end-users.
Outsourcery is committed to providing its channel partners with the most complete UC and hosted IT product set in the UK, all managed via one control panel.
Outsourcery is the UK’s first carbon neutral UC and hosted IT solutions company, and was awarded the celebrated ‘Comms Business Green Channel Company Award 2010’ for offsetting its carbon emissions to replace open cooking fires in the Kisumu region of Kenya with energy efficient Rocket stoves.
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