Together we’re creating the workspaces of tomorrow

Dimension Data and Microsoft®

In 2006, Dimension Data and Microsoft extended this partnership with a multi-year Global Alliance Agreement that sees ongoing investment by both companies in the pursuit of new market opportunities, and improved value to our joint clients.

Today you can experience improved support and innovation through robust services and solutions as a direct result of this agreement. Dimension Data is one of only a few managed partners from thousands that align to Microsoft worldwide, we leverage benefits that can be extended to your business, no matter where you are in the world.

As an Alliance partner, we have greater access to new products, early adopter programmes, technical support, and Microsoft’s future direction. By combining Microsoft’s technologies with our consulting and service expertise, Dimension Data presents you with a full lifecycle of solutions for your ever-evolving organisation.

Our collaboration with Microsoft allows us to maintain and support, operate and optimise, manage and transform your organisation, offering services either on premise, hybrid or cloud.

Dimension Data has a long history of partnering with Microsoft® around the world.

InnovateOur services enable you to extend the workplace to new locations and business scenarios, allowing you to unlock new ways of working and new business models, and in so doing, changes the end-user experience to one that pleases and inspires employees and customers, not just enables them.

Enable and connect

Simplify

Productivity

Enhanced communication and collaboration through solutions that integrate Microsoft’s productivity applications. Dimension Data enables the infrastructure that connects users with voice, video, messaging, and content across your business and to your suppy chain with no geographical boundaries. Services can be delivered on premise, in a private cloud, a public cloud such as Office 365, or as a hybrid model tailored to your needs. We’re a leader in unified communications – especially in designing and managing multi-vendor solutions to deliver deeper value for the enterprise.

Decreases operating costs and realises business value from technology investments through streamlining the design and deployment of new systems and automating operational processes.

Productivity can give your business the power to be more efficient, flexible, and agile - it underpins all your transformation ambitions. With Microsoft Office 365 and Skype for Business, and Dimension Data’s own private cloud services, we’re reinventing productivity with a set of tools that can enable communications and collaboration. This will bring together the familiar experience of Skype with the security, compliance, and control that you’ve come to expect from Microsoft.

Office 365 enables ubiquitous collaboration, enabling workers to create and communicate from anywhere. At the same time, Skype, PSTN Conferencing, cloud PBX, and our private cloud, are improving how people meet and communicate.

Dimension Data will deliver a range of integrated services that can be tailored to meet your needs, budget, and pace of change, while supporting your transformation to become a digital enterprise. Our consultants and solutions architects can help your business plan, design, build, and manage your next-generation productivity platform. It will allow you to communicate and share information easily, collaborate across businesses, and support new and varied work styles.

Microsoft Azure

Better benefits for you…

Dimension Data is able to deliver hybrid IT solutions for your business through Microsoft Azure. Our approach enables your move to the cloud in a manner that is finely tuned to your organisational needs and requirements. With services to assess, migrate and manage, and options of on premise, private and public cloud, or a hybrid thereof, the pragmatic reality that not all workloads fit onto the cloud is addressed.

We offer a genuine set of solutions, tailored for real business scenarios. Dimension Data is an Azure High Potential Partner Programme member; we’re also a member of Microsoft’s Infrastructure and Azure Business Partner Advisory Councils.

• access to specialised Microsoft skills with practical, real-world deployment experience and tested methodologies that reduce time to market for your new services

• exceptional understanding of areas affected by, and impacting, your Microsoft technology decisions – be it networks, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, communications, operating platform, licensing and the cloud

• access to Microsoft products through early adopter and beta programmes so you can make informed business decisions

• recognised best practice for deployment and support to locations all around the world, reducing administrative burden and accelerating user activation

• world-class support from seven Global Service Centres offering multi-language support – so you can focus on your core business and we can manage the rest

Our approach enables your move to the cloud in a manner that is finely tuned to your organisational needs and requirements.

plan

managebuild

improvesupport

innovate

End-user Computing We design, deploy and manage the infrastructure and applications for end-user devices including desktops, laptops, tablets and phones.

Workspaces for tomorrow We combine integrated communication and collaboration technologies with business applications and processes to enable more efficient, secure, and managed collaboration that enhances productivity and user experience.

Digital infrastructure and hybrid cloud We facilitate every step of an organisation’s journey to cloud – from assessing and preparing infrastructure and applications, to adopting private and public cloud services and integrating hybrid environments.

Software services We provide the infrastructure and processes to effectively procure, deploy, manage, and protect software assets throughout all stages of your lifecycle.

Our world – Dimension Data and Microsoft

Deployed the first production environment of Microsoft Hyper-V

in the world

Deployed over 500 Skype for Business projects globally

– several hundred of those deploying enterprise voice. One of only a handful of Microsoft Elite partners worldwide

certified to deliver services for Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business.

Dimension Data has the largest number of Microsoft Lync masters

outside of Microsoft.

Microsoft Centres of Excellence

around the world

Americas

Europe

Middle East & Africa

Asia Pacific

Australia

V

• Global Elite Partner for Skype for Business

• Office 365 E5 Launch partner

• O365 Cloud Solution Provider

• Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner

• Hosted Cloud Partner

• Cloud Productivity competency

• Data Centre competency

in 10 Microsoft competencies including: communications, content management, messaging, portals and collaboration, server platform, software asset management, and volume licensing

Gold-certified

in 9 Microsoft competencies including: application integration, mobility, search, software development, web development, data platform, management and virtualisation, and midmarket solution provider

Silver-certified

Microsoftcertifications

5,100Microsoft Certified

Professionals

934Microsoft Certified Solutions Experts

350

2015 Microsoft Modern

Datacenter:Customer Focus Partner

of the Year (with Cisco and NetApp)

2013 Microsoft Global

Partner of the Year– Communications

2012 Microsoft Global

Partner of the Year– Messaging

2012 Microsoft Private Cloud Partner of

the Year

CS / GLMKCON0082 / 01/16 © Copyright Dimension Data 2016

‘ We live in an amazing world. The pace of change is faster than ever, and technology has led to disruptions in our personal and professional lives – and yet we’re just at the tip of the iceberg. Together Dimension Data and Microsoft are helping businesses harness the full power of digital transformation and reinventing productivity.’Mark Hill, Vice President, OSS, Microsoft Corporation & Executive Sponsor – Dimension Data and Microsoft Alliance

‘ We’re a leader in unified communications – especially in designing and managing multi-vendor solutions to deliver deeper value to your enterprise.’

With you on your journey…

Our End-user Computing Development Model is a consultative engagement to help you develop a defined road map for your end-user computing initiatives. We offer a phased approach to allow you to address immediate needs, while also considering future interdependencies.

Our managed services provide support, proactive management and monitoring services to ensure your productivity platforms are secure, highly available, and up to date, as well as delivering the best user experience to your employees.

About Dimension DataDimension Data is a global ICT leader, helping organisations accelerate their ambition to achieve great things in the digital era. We focus on digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, workspaces for tomorrow, and cybersecurity, with the network as the platform.

About MicrosoftMicrosoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential.

Middle East & Africa

Algeria · Angola Botswana · Congo · Burundi

Democratic Republic of the Congo Gabon · Ghana · Kenya

Malawi · Mauritius · Morocco Mozambique · Namibia · Nigeria Oman · Rwanda · Saudi Arabia

South Africa Tanzania · Uganda

United Arab Emirates · Zambia

Asia

China · Hong Kong India · Indonesia · Japan

Korea · Malaysia New Zealand · Philippines

Singapore · Taiwan Thailand · Vietnam

Australia

Australian Capital Territory New South Wales · Queensland

South Australia · Victoria Western Australia

Europe

Austria · Belgium Czech Republic France ·

Germany · HungaryItaly Ireland ·

· Luxembourg Netherlands Poland · Portugal

Slovakia · ·Spain United Kingdom

Switzerland

Americas

Brazil · Canada · Chile Mexico · United States

For contact details in your region please visit dimensiondata.com/globalpresence