Ooredoo and Microsoft officials during a ceremony.
Doha: Ooredoo has confirmed it has been awarded Microsoft Gold Partnership status.
The coveted status, awarded to a small number of organisations providing Microsoft products and services, confirms Ooredoo’s commitment to maintaining the highest standards and means the telecommunications leader will enjoy a deeper working relationship with the technology giant as a result.
To achieve Gold status, partners must demonstrate the highest technical excellence levels with Microsoft Azure technologies and a firm commitment to meet developing customer needs, including those for a collaborative, secure, and productive working environment.
Microsoft Gold certification enables partners to access the latest Microsoft technology products and services and ongoing training and enablement. With Ooredoo’s Cloud Services portfolio, Ooredoo’s business customers can decide to utilise Azure Stack to host part of the application data in-country, with another part either in the same Azure Stack or in Microsoft’s global Cloud, i.e., Hybrid Cloud solution. Customers can also access the Azure Marketplace of certified, open-source, community apps, developer services, and data.
Chief Business Officer Ooredoo, Sheikh Nasser Al Thani, said: “We’re delighted and proud to have been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Gold Partner status. This reflects our commitment to achieving complete customer satisfaction through consistent, reliable delivery of our products and services in partnership with major global entities such as Microsoft. Our customers can rest assured we meet, or exceed, the stringent standards expected by Microsoft, and can rely on us to meet their demands and expectations with the backing of Microsoft.”
Country Manager at Microsoft Qatar Lana Khalaf said: “It gives us great pleasure to announce Ooredoo, one of the leading telecommunications companies in the region, have attained the Microsoft Gold partner competency worldwide by demonstrating the highest levels of technical excellence with Microsoft cloud technologies and platform. We are extremely excited to take Microsoft and Ooredoo partnership forward to empower our customers to achieve more through the power of Cloud.”
