Outsourcery PLC Microsoft CSP Programme (4955X)

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Outsourcery PLC

20 November 2014

20 November 2014

Outsourcery plc

("Outsourcery" or the "Company")

Participation in the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program to resell and bill Office 365

- One of a limited number of UK partners with ability to bill, manage and support Office 365 -

Outsourcery the leading Cloud Services Provider ("CSP") that helps organisations of any size to reduce costs, increase productivity and work better, is pleased to announce its participation in the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Programme.

The Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Programme allows Outsourcery to provide direct billing, sell combined offers and services, as well as provision, manage and support Microsoft Cloud offerings, such as Office 365.

The programme is designed to strengthen customer relationships and expand Cloud sales opportunities by enabling partners to provide direct billing, sell combined offers and services, as well as directly provision, manage and support Microsoft products and services. With immediate effect, Outsourcery will own the complete customer lifecycle, allowing it easily to sell Office 365 subscriptions and help customers take advantage of Cloud services by owning the entire billing process and directly managing support.

Commenting on the announcement, Outsourcery Co-Chief Executive Piers Linney said:

"Our inclusion in the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program, which has only been made available to a limited number of Microsoft partners, allows us to sell, bill, manage and support Office 365 and own the complete customer lifecycle. We are able to further integrate Office 365 with our own offering down to billing whereas previously the billing and contractual relationship was managed by Microsoft. As we have already proven, we can add material value for end-customers by integrating Office 365 with our own cloud capabilities to create hybrid solutions for commercial and public sector organisations."

Phil Sorgen, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp, said:

"The Cloud Solution Provider Program puts our partners at the centre of the customer relationship. Through participation these partners have demonstrated dedication to helping our mutual customers successfully move to the cloud."

For further information please contact

 
 Outsourcery plc                      [phone] 
  Piers Linney, Co-Chief Executive     www.outsourcery.co.uk 
  Officer 
  Simon Newton, Co-Chief Executive 
  Officer 
 Investec 
  Andrew Pinder / Patrick Robb 
  Dominic Emery / Carlton Nelson      [phone] 
 FTI Consulting, LLP 
  Matt Dixon / Rob Mindell            [phone] 
 

About Outsourcery

Outsourcery is a leading Cloud Service Provider ("CSP") based in the UK focused on the delivery of cloud-based applications, infrastructure and unified communications solutions to business of all sizes via its partner and as direct customers in the mid-market. The Group focuses on Microsoft technologies due to the significant installed base and disruptive entry into new markets such as unified communications. Cloud computing represents a systemic evolution in the way that IT platforms, applications and communications ("ICT") solutions are provided in a more cost effective and efficient way. The ICT model is rapidly shifting from a physical technology purchase to the consumption of services with a specified uptime service level on a monthly subscription basis. Outsourcery has invested in its platform and capabilities to apply economies of scale to provide highly resilient and secure services to a range of end-customers from shared platforms in its UK datacentres. These services are deployed on its proprietary O-Cloud platform, a combination of software, hardware and networking, which is housed in a third-party enterprise grade datacentres and which has achieved the government's OFFICIAL accreditation (formerly IL2) to meet data sovereignty and security specifications for the public sector. Cloud services for the UK's central Government will be deployed in its new Secure O-Cloud platform, which will be accredited to OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE (formerly IL3).

Further, detailed information on the Group is available in the Investor Centre on the Outsourcery website:

(www.outsourcery.co.uk/investors)

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