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Orange Business and Microsoft to boost
industrial performance with IoT
Orange Business Services and Microsoft are collaborating
to deliver large-scale, end-to-end IoT solutions that boost
the digital processes of companies in the manufacturing
sector. Enterprises can use the Orange modular IoT
solution, Datavenue, strengthened by Microsoft Azure IoT
Suite, to transition to Industry 4.0 and optimise the entire
manufacturing value chain.
standard. This partnership is a remarkable opportunity for us
not just to expand our business, but also to contribute more
actively to the development of the IoT market around the
world,” said Beatrice Felder, Executive Vice President, Customer
Experience, IoT and Analytics, Orange Business Services.
Through this collaboration, companies can take advantage of
the combined expertise of Orange and Microsoft regarding
data protection, as well as device and data management. This
includes the opportunity to leverage Orange Business Services’
many IoT connectivity options, in particular LoRa. Use cases
range from supply chain and smart inventory management to
digital operations, such as predictive maintenance, employee
safety and facility and equipment management.
“This partnership between Orange and Microsoft is an
important step in our growth strategy targeting the IoT and
data analytics B2B market. By adding Azure IoT solutions
to our Datavenue portfolio, we provide our customers with
powerful software with the assurance that it will seamlessly
integrate with Microsoft’s business applications, an industry
T-Systems SA announces considerable
investment in Microsoft Azure
T-Systems South Africa
announced at their InTouch 2017
event that they will be partnering
with Microsoft to offer Azure
services to enterprise customers
across the South African market.
T-Systems is already a global
partner of Microsoft and, with
this new step, will be focusing
on complementing their existing
solutions with Microsoft Azure
cloud services to create additional
value for customers.
Rajan Padayachee, Head of Solutions,
Projects and Portfolio, T-Systems
South Africa
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Rajan Padayachee, Head of
Solutions, Projects and Portfolio
at T-Systems South Africa says,
“Shortly after we announced
our intention to bring our Open
Telekom Cloud (OTC) to South
Africa, Microsoft announced that
they will be offering Azure from
local data centres in South Africa.
Considering our strong partnership
with them, coupled with the substantial
investments that many of our customers
have already made in Microsoft services,
T-Systems made the decision to
invest in Microsoft’s local Azure cloud,
with the intention to maximise our
customers’ investments and build on
our partnership with Microsoft.”
Zoaib Hoosen, Managing Director
of Microsoft South Africa supports
T-Systems’ investment, stating,
“T-Systems South Africa has been a
longstanding partner of Microsoft for
many years. We view this agreement as
a reaffirmation of both our global and
local partnership, and we give credit to
the value that T-Systems’ brings, with
both their extensive cloud experience
and their existing partnerships with
other entrenched business critical
solution vendors.”
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