Logica, Microsoft To Bring 'Cloud' Business Productivity To Large Enterprises

Logica, an IT and business services company, and Microsoft have announced that Logica will be a key partner in enabling enterprises with more than 5,000 employees to use and leverage Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite-Dedicated (BPOS-D) ‘Cloud’ service.

This agreement puts Logica in a select group of international IT and business consultancies with the necessary skills to migrate IT-systems in large companies to Microsoft’s BPOS-D services, which includes online access to Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and other Microsoft applications.

Thomas Breuer, Managing Director, Alliances, Logica said, “The agreement is in line with our strategy to be the trusted advisor and implementer of choice for clients, who want to take advantage of the commercial and solution benefits of cloud computing. Microsoft’s portfolio of cloud services offers a cohesive implementation and we look forward to leading our clients to implement solutions that help them collaborate, communicate and use content in effective and innovative ways.”

Logica offers complete migration services to clients including the ability to modernise their existing collaborative and messaging environments. In particular, the partnership will also address complex intra-departmental workflow challenges, incorporating rich experiential user interfaces.

The BPOS-D agreement is the first in a series of agreements between Microsoft and Logica, aimed at providing a complete cloud computing ecosystem in the industry.