Chris Baldock, CEO of intY, explained, “To date many of our major partners struggled with the existing referral-only model for Office 365, with one sticking point being the billing relationship owned by Microsoft or the Syndication Partner making it difficult for complementary services to be provided by the channel on one bill. This agreement puts our larger channel partners firmly back in the driving seat – they become a reseller with margin and value-add as opposed to a recommender with a commission payment. Ultimately, they own that all important customer relationship.”
Within intY’s aggregation platform, intY CASCADE, selected partners can set their own price, be in control of margin, and bundle other complementary products and value-add service functionality with Office 365, all whilst billing the customer directly.
“This will spur a further migration towards Office 365”, said Baldock. “The next phase of customer adoption is highly reliant upon channel partners for migration, support and integration, the path is now clear for rapid uptake. With Office 365 being available in a resale model for intY CASCADE strategic partners, plus the guarantee of the latest Microsoft capability and service, we expect this market to accelerate at pace.”
intY is launching to a selected number of partners across Europe and North America this week, where Office 365 will be made available to these partners via the intY CASCADE cloud marketplace. Office 365 joins over 200 products on the cloud-aggregation platform, delivering a fast and simple delivery model for partners to bundle and deliver multi-vendor solutions to their customers.
Mark Herbert, Business Development Director and Founder of intY, concluded, “This is the shape of things to come. We’ve been in the SaaS space since the start, and we’ve always believed that the right combination of Microsoft and the cloud would be a game changer for channel consumption. This is it. We’re delighted to add Office 365 for resale to the CASCADE mix with this new agreement, enabling our strategic partners to build and deliver truly best of breed services to end users.”