Logica partners with Microsoft on 'Cloud' business productivity

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Bangalore: Logica, an IT and business services company, partnered with Microsoft to enable enterprises with more than 5,000 employees to use and leverage Microsoft's business productivity online suite-dedicated (BPOS-D) 'Cloud' service. Commenting on the partnership, Thomas Breuer, Managing Director, Alliances, Logica said, "The agreement is in line with our strategy to be the trusted advisor and implementer of choice for clients who want to take advantage of the commercial and solution benefits of cloud computing. Microsoft's portfolio of cloud services offers a cohesive and complete implementation and we look forward to leading our clients to implement solutions that help them collaborate, communicate and use content in effective and truly innovative ways." This agreement puts Logica in a select group of international IT and business consultancies with the necessary skills to migrate IT-systems in large companies to Microsoft's BPOS-D services, which includes online access to Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and other Microsoft applications. Logica offers complete migration services to clients including the ability to modernise their existing collaborative and messaging environments. The partnership will also address complex intra-departmental workflow challenges and experiential user interfaces. Eron Kelly, Senior Director of Marketing for Microsoft Online Services said, "Cloud computing is becoming increasingly important to large corporations to drive business efficiency and enhance collaborative networks. By combining our technologies with Logica's expertise we are confident that customers will now be able to leverage a compelling solution that addresses many common IT challenges." The BPOS-D agreement is the first in a series of agreements between Microsoft and Logica, aimed at providing the most complete cloud computing ecosystem in the industry.

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