This Monday Microsoft Announced Several New Offerings Aimed At Strengthening Its Position In The Cloud Software Market, including Microsoft 365 Enterprise and 365 Business, at its Inspire conference in Washington, DC
Microsoft 365 Enterprise It is designed to empower employees of large organizations to be creative and to work as a team safely. Microsoft 365 Business, allows you to locate small and medium businesses that have a number of 300 employees, includes a console to give and secure devices and users in a single location.
"Traditionally, SMBs were stuck being chased by a little solution that never got them off the ground," he said. Charles King, Principal Analyst at Pund-IT.
"Microsoft 365 it should provide better options and more ways to buy and pay for these solutions. "
Microsoft also announced the availability of Azure Stach which is a hybrid cloud software platform.
"Azure Stack is an extension of Azure that brings agility and rapid innovation to cloud on on-premises computers, enabling a new array of hybrid cloud scenarios, ”said Judson Althoff, Microsoft's executive vice president for international commerce.
Microsoft has decided to invest $ 250 million in the company's co-program, which motivates its sales representatives to work with partners to build solutions for Azure, and create a new management channel dedicated to supporting efforts in the market of its partners.
Azure Stack looks minimal like a direct sale of SMBsBut it can be valuable to partners who are selling in that market, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates.
In addition this is very advantageous for partners, this can be a very good move for Microsoft.
"Microsoft's cost of reaching the SMB market can be huge," Gold said. "There is no reason why this should not happen."