Channel product of the year award

24 June 2013

Outsourcery plc

Awarded Channel Product of the Year 2013

Outsourcery plc (AIM: OUT, "Outsourcery", "the Group"), a world-leading provider of cloud-based IT and unified communications services, has been awarded Most Innovative Channel Product of the Year as well as the Overall Channel Product of the Year for its Unified Lync solution.

The Comms Business awards celebrate the successes of the reseller community, vendors, distributers and service providers and took place on 20 June 2013.

Outsourcery's Unified Lync solution was chosen out of five finalists for the category of Most Innovative Channel Product (Cloud Based Solution Deployed). Outsourcery Unified Lync is an enterprise class service, delivered from a carrier-grade telco platform, which delivers a full range of features from the cloud.

Outsourcery has built a flexible activation model that helps partners understand the market opportunity for Lync and also helps them build their own Unified Communications business with Unified Lync at the core.

Piers Linney, Co-CEO of Outsourcery commented:

"We are honoured to have been awarded both Channel Product of the Year and Most Innovative Product of the year. It is a great endorsement of our offering and reflects the efforts and dedication of the whole team.

"We developed Unified Lync so partners could offer a flexible range of cloud-based communications tools with ease. It also has the added benefit of being able to provide Outsourcery's assistance through a partner's own brand.

"We pride ourselves on our relationships with our channel partners and our dedication to their solution based needs. We work to develop their own proposition to meet their needs.

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About Outsourcery: Outsourcery is a world-leading Cloud Service Provider (CSP) based in the UK. The Company is channel focused and aims to remove the need for businesses of all sizes to own and manage IT, unified communications and video applications and infrastructure. End-customers range from start-ups to FTSE-100 companies.

Outsourcery has one of the broadest offerings of cloud-based services based on Microsoft technology in the world, covering hosted software applications, virtualised servers and next generation unified communications (based on Lync Server) and collaboration solutions as well professional services to customise and integrate solutions for end-customers. Outsourcery was a founder member of the UK Cloud Industry Forum and is ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 9001 (Quality Management) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) accredited as well as being able to deliver CESG IL2 accredited solutions for the public sector.

Outsourcery was named both Microsoft's worldwide 'Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year' and its worldwide 'Dynamics Hosting Partner of the Year' in 2010. The Company was also one of three finalists for the Microsoft worldwide 'Server Platform Partner of the Year' award in 2013.

Outsourcery is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with a total of six competencies of which three are gold and three silver. Outsourcery employs 120 staff based in three UK offices and operates two UK data centres and was the UK's first certified carbon neutral CSP.

http://www.outsourcery.co.uk