Outsourcery Honoured in the 2010 Microsoft Partner Awards as Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year (23/06/2010)

LONDON, UK - June 23, 2010 - Today, Outsourcery proudly announced it is a Microsoft Partner Awards winner as Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

95% of Microsoft's $60bn of annual revenue is generated by its global partner network, which includes partners delivering Microsoft software plus services as business solutions.  In the UK where over 90% of businesses use some sort of Microsoft technology, the standards of companies qualifying for partnership status are getting higher than ever with the Seattle-based company increasingly focused on improving core competencies, levels of investment and the quality of service provided by its partners.

Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 entrants worldwide. Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year was recognised for superior technology and innovation in Outsourcery. The Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year Award honours partners who have demonstrated solution innovation and a commitment to engaging with Microsoft. This award recognises Outsourcery for teaming with Microsoft to address their customer needs through identifying new market opportunities and using technology innovation.

British-based Cloud computing company Outsourcery has been widely predicted by experts to become the UK's market leader as a result of its rapid investment in Cloud services and unified communications - a strategy which has delivered dominant market share and consolidated its position as one of the world's fastest growing Cloud computing companies.  Many industry insiders see the award for Outsourcery as evidence of British firms being at the forefront of innovation in bringing new technologies to the marketplace.  In Britain, companies operating across all sectors are increasingly relying on hosted solutions, and Outsourcery provides the most advanced integrated product offering in Cloud computing available in the UK today.

Outsourcery is at the forefront of the Cloud computing revolution where, for the first time, powerful state-of-the-art business technology previously enjoyed only by corporations with large IT budgets is now available to businesses of any size.  It turns IT from a large capital expenditure item to an operating cost, a factor critical in Cloud computing's growing popularity in the current economic climate, where obtaining investment or debt finance for capital expenditure from banks is extremely difficult.  Businesses are being empowered as a result of having access to the latest technology to create competitive advantage, but at a fixed monthly cost per user and without an upfront investment.

Piers Linney, joint CEO said, "We strongly believe that the future is Cloud computing and we will continue to offer innovative software plus service solutions that add value to our customers.  Just over a year ago we set out to be recognised as No.1 in the market; now we are proud to have been officially recognised on the global stage as Microsoft's Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year.  We have achieved this through material investment in state-of-the-art infrastructure to provide solutions that enable our customers to reduce costs, become more productive, more efficient and, ultimately more profitable."

"Microsoft is pleased to recognise Outsourcery as the Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year for its hosted Unified Communications solution targeting the small and medium business market," said Austen Mulinder, corporate vice president, Communications Sector, Microsoft Corp. "Outsourcery's hosted Unified Communications solution combines Microsoft products such as Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint 2007, and Office Communication Server 2007, with voice and presence, to help businesses communicate more effectively. Businesses can stay connected with their mobile workforce at all times in real-time through instant messaging, phone, and web conferencing, offered through predictable subscription-based pricing."

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognise Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.

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