McDonnell joins from Microsoft, with a remit to grow Vuzion’s partner community within Ireland, and support the ISV and IT reseller community’s transformation to the cloud. With Microsoft Azure and solutions based on Office 365 and Dynamics 365, Vuzion Ireland will assist IT resellers and ISVs make the most of cloud solutions by making the process of integrating, servicing, supporting and billing simple, straightforward and cost effective. Vuzion as a Microsoft Indirect Cloud Solution Provider, can assist the IT partner community in deriving greater value from Microsoft products with lower operational costs, Gold-Certified support and expertise.
Vuzion will help resellers build their own customer-ready Azure solutions, including bespoke solutions that allow partners to differentiate themselves with service delivery and their own unique capabilities. With Vuzion’s assistance partners will be able to grow their cloud business services for customers, with speed and simplicity, and passing cost savings on to their end users.
With a different skill-set from traditional technology distributors, based on 20 years of cloud expertise and knowledge in support, delivery and guidance, Vuzion provides partners with the resources and capabilities to build new solutions and service offerings. The depth of expertise this heritage brings, plus the breadth of knowledge across the Microsoft cloud portfolio, along with other major software vendors’ services, means Vuzion can help expand IT resellers suite of offerings to their customer.
Michael Frisby, Managing Director at Vuzion, said, “Building on the success of Vuzion in the UK I am excited that we are bringing our capabilities and services to help Irish partners grow profitable cloud businesses in a simple and straightforward manner.”
McDonnell added, “With the Cloud Solution Provider programme, more partners have the opportunity to be the trusted advisors who best understand customer needs, and they are helped by Vuzion who provides the pre- and post-sales support, professional services, training and resources to make this happen. They can go back to the customer again and again with new solutions solving business problems and outcomes. This will help partners transform their businesses with new revenue and service models.”
Aisling Curtis Director of SMSP at Microsoft said, “We are strongly encouraging Partners to use the Cloud Solution Provider model to supplement their own resources with those available from Indirect providers such as Vuzion. Resources such as 24*7 support, professional and managed services are what customers are expecting from partner offerings. Using services provided by Vuzion, Irish partners can build their own solutions and services without having to make a substantial investment to build infrastructure to support their transition to the cloud.”
