The Cloud Team were in the Mitel London City office today, briefing UK channel partners on their latest World Cloud solution for global enterprises.
It sure has been a busy time for Mitel recently. Their World Cloud proposition further strengthens the brand's leading position in the ever-growing global cloud communications market.
Mitel kicked off the session by noting that more people now work in highly distributed organisations, and that IT teams are struggling to support disparate systems due to the high costs of maintenance. Mitel World Cloud was created to enable complete business agility for multi-national organisations, and it’s ready and live.
What is Mitel World Cloud?
Mitel World Cloud (for MiCloud Office & MiCloud Enterprise), unifies employees worldwide using a single global cloud communications platform, engaging users with a shared application experience and connecting offices, anywhere, anytime, on any device. With real-time presence and international one-touch dialling, employees have universal access to common voice, video, messaging and conferencing tools.
The Global Communications Market is Soaring
The channel briefing was presented by Mitel’s Cloud Business Development Manager Terry Hughes. He began the event by introducing a few key facts about the company, alongside marketplace insights. Particularly interesting is the revelation that Mitel’s cloud user base is growing by 10% quarter on quarter globally. In the UK, cloud user revenue is up an enormous 117% year on year. Cloud Communications is a huge market opportunity for unified communications vendors and channel partners and their growth figures are testament to Mitel’s commitment to R&D and market dominance on the global stage.
It’s also a period of change for unified communications vendors, Mitel stated that many channel partners are now selling both their on-premises and cloud platforms, with some partners choosing to concentrate on cloud only.
From a cloud vendor’s perspective; Gartner predicts that by 2019, more than 30 percent of the 100 largest vendors' new software investments will have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only.
MiCloud hits the World Stage
If you’re familiar with Mitel’s multi-tenanted UCaaS solution MiCloud Office then you’ll know that it’s typically positioned as the little brother to MiCloud Enterprise. MiCloud Office however, has also been made available for global organisations, and has begun to see significant investment as part of the World Cloud platform development. Not only does World Cloud offer customers complete flexibility in terms of how its deployed (choice of two platforms), it’s another string to the bow for channel partners looking to increase their value propositions. In other words, it's a win-win for everyone.
Rob Hutton, UK Sales Director for Cloud Services said;
World Cloud enables Mitel Channel Partners to offer global cloud solutions to their customers, an opportunity which brings with it substantial opportunity for revenue growth
Here’s what World Cloud offers:
