SoftwareONE has sealed a strategic agreement with Microsoft to help accelerate growth for its application services and for its SAP specialism on Microsoft Azure globally. The deal comes as SoftwareONE expands its market footprint through a string of acquisitions.
SoftwareONE says it will expand its application services and SAP on Azure capabilities by hiring and training up to 5,000 additional specialists by the end of 2023, in line with a SoftwareONE and Microsoft business plan and expected revenue growth over that period.
Microsoft will provide SoftwareONE with investment, training, certification and engineering engagement for practice development. Dieter Schlosser (pictured), CEO of Switzerland-headquartered SoftwareONE, said: “The extended agreement with Microsoft is a testament to the long-standing and successful relationship we have built over the last 30 years, and will help SoftwareONE to achieve its growth ambitions in the two focus areas of application services and SAP in the cloud.
“This will ensure we address some of the major needs that our customers will have over the coming years to drive their digital transformation.”
Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president for One Commercial Partner at Microsoft, added: “Our customers are looking for help modernising legacy applications and their SAP infrastructure. SoftwareONE, one of our Azure Expert Managed Service Providers, has seen this as an opportunity as well, so it was a natural choice to align our objectives for the benefits of our joint customers.
“We expect this agreement to help us transform over 3,000 customers worldwide in the next three years.”
Earlier this month, SoftwareONE acquired DACH-focused SAP services firm ITPC, its third cloud solutions acquisition of the year. In January, SoftwareONE captured US-focused SAP specialist Optimum Consulting - which also has operations in India - and Spanish Google cloud services player Intelligence Partner, which additionally serves the Brazilian and Middle Eastern markets. These deals came after other acquisitions in 2020.
