Vodafone to offer Microsoft's Office 365 suite to Indian businesses

BANGALORE, INDIA: Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, has tied up with Microsoft as a Cloud Service Partner to offer Office 365 to Indian businesses.

The Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite offered on a pay-per-use Software as a Service (SaaS) model works across multiple devices, provides built-in, enterprise-grade security features, tools for teamwork and increased productivity as well as extensive privacy and compliance controls.

Vodafone Business Services will enable Indian businesses of all sizes to access Microsoft Office 365 comprising the familiar Office applications suite, along with business-class collaboration tools and services to help them work easier and collaborate better from anywhere.  The service delivery and support will be managed by Vodafone.

Announcing the tie-up with Microsoft, Nick Gliddon, Director, Vodafone Business Services, said “We are confident that the pay-per-use Software as a Service (SaaS) model will make our customers’ business future-ready by giving them predictable IT costs and taking care of the technology upgrades and scalability worries. Vodafone is acknowledged as an enterprise mobility leader. With our cloud platform and tie-up with Microsoft, we are now well positioned as a total communications partner to our enterprise customers.”

Meetul Patel, General Manager, Marketing & Operations, Microsoft, said, “Our tie-up will give Indian enterprises of all sizes affordable access to Microsoft’s suite of collaboration and productivity services – across devices, anywhere, anytime, and worry-free.”