Microsoft Cloud Applications Preferred by Organizations
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 12:11 |
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 Stephen Elop , who is Microsoft Business Division President proudly announced that Microsoft Corp.’s business communication and collaboration software delivered as a service, called the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), will be made available in 15 additional countries and regions.
Aon Corporation, Aviva PLC, Barry-Wehmiller, Hofstra University, Lions Gate Entertainment, McDonald’s Corporation, Rexel Group, Swedish Red Cross, SkyTeam Alliance, Tyco Flow Control, University System of Ohio, Westcon Group Inc. and hundreds of others new customers implemented the Business Productivity Online Suite during past months.
Elop stated: “Global organizations such as McDonald’s, Rexel Group and Tyco are choosing Microsoft Online Services for the rich capabilities, flexibility and value they deliver.” He continued: “In just a year, we’ve grown to 36 countries and more than a million paying users, and we’re not slowing down. We’ll continue to bring new innovations and deliver the software and services businesses need to succeed.”
Global chief technology officer and senior vice president of Shared Services at McDonald’s, Chris Millington, declared: “Within McDonald’s, collaboration and communication tools are critical to our success and ongoing innovation, and with Microsoft Online Services, we found a cost-effective yet familiar, intuitive solution that we could trust with our business communications.” He further added: “We have already completed over half of the corporate rollout and, by early in the next year, we will be fully deployed throughout our organization. With Microsoft Online Services, we expect to reduce our IT costs and increase our productivity.”
Chief information officer at Rexel Group, Olivier Baldassari, emphasized: “At Rexel, one of our key IT initiatives is to improve collaboration and communication to support the evolution of our business model. We looked at a variety of offerings, and we selected Microsoft Online Services as a cost-effective yet familiar solution that could meet our requirements for reliability, security and ease-of-use.” Olivier adds: “We have already started our rollout, and with Exchange Online, we will consolidate 42 e-mail systems into one, reducing our corresponding IT costs by at least 30 percent.”
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