The emergence of cloud as-a-service solutions has transformed the communications dealer and service provider landscape, providing both challenges and opportunities for participants to engage with. The challenges of large service providers looking to dominate the market with their UC services has left MSPs needing to emphasise the value they can add in terms of sector-specific knowledge, bespoke solutions and flexible offerings. In this way they can differentiate from the mainstream, hyperscale companies and assemble compelling, unique packages for their customers.
“The dealer channel and the service provider market landscape has evolved since the advent of cloud as-a-service solutions,” confirms Bertrand Pourcelot, CEO of Enreach for Service Providers.
“Players in this market vary in terms of size, maturity and brand strength and are navigating through the as-a-service revolution. Our strategy is to have solutions available for wherever service providers are in their journeys.”
A marketplace has grown up to support MSPs in delivery of these capabilities, taking into account their current position and their strategic aims. MSPs can bundle complete UCaaS packages as a white-labelled solution from suppliers or they can simply add services and capabilities alongside their existing options. The goal is to create differentiated services that are attractive to enterprise customers with rapid time to market, business model flexibility and the added value of the established customer relationship.
Pourcelot explains that the Enreach for Service Providers strategy is to offer everything from a turnkey, integrated one-stop-shop UCaaS package to a single solution to support an MSP’s existing portfolio.
“You can be a reseller of turnkey solution that includes everything or, if you’re a well-established reseller and want to become more independent you could adopt the Enreach UP cloud platform as-a-service offering where we provide UCaaS solutions but you supply them on your own systems, enabling customers to bring their own carrier,” he says.




