Avaya’s OneCloud platform is now available on Microsoft Azure for hybrid, public and private cloud deployments.
The announcement extends the collaboration between the pair, which already sees Avaya’s contact-centre-as-a-service offering available on Microsoft’s infrastructure platform.
David Austin, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Alliances at Avaya, said: “Our strategic partnership with Microsoft is an important milestone in our continued transformation to a cloud business model.
“The global scale of Microsoft helps ensure that our joint customers rapidly deploy Avaya OneCloud solutions in any cloud environment of their choice with speed, agility and cost competitiveness.
“This represents a tremendous opportunity for customers to accelerate their journey to the cloud, and a tremendous opportunity for Avaya to expand our go-to-market reach through the co-selling efforts we have identified with our trusted partner.”
OneCloud is Avaya’s unified platform for collaboration, contact centre and CPaaS.
Avaya said it has “co-sell ready status” with Microsoft, meaning it will work with Microsoft’s sales engine to sell the platform jointly.
Casey McGee, Vice President, Global ISV Partner Sales, Microsoft, said: “Many of our largest customers have standardized on Avaya communications solutions and offering Avaya OneCloud on Microsoft Azure gives them an additional opportunity to benefit from their investments while accelerating their cloud migration.
“Together, we are working to help customers around the world transform their businesses and drive digital transformation and implement workload migration initiatives more rapidly.
“This is a significant opportunity, particularly for Microsoft customers as they move more workloads to Azure.”
Avaya has reported strong growth since pivoting to become cloud-focused, although its most recent set of results was hindered by a string of delayed deals.
The vendor will report its next quarterly earnings this week.
