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Orange is a strategic alliance partner of Microsoft

Orange Business Services and Microsoft have offered global enterprises leading messaging and collaboration solutions. Combining Orange consulting, integration and managed services with market-leading products from Microsoft, we implement messaging and advanced collaboration solutions that improve communications, security, efficiency and productivity through a single global point of contact.
Our alliance is built upon the mutual acknowledgement of each other’s diverse assets:

• Orange has identified Microsoft Exchange Server and Office SharePoint platforms as well as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 as the key environments for building its new enterprise IP services.
• Microsoft recognizes Orange as a leader in the fields of collaborative applications and critical communications for managing the implementation of new practices in the business environment.

customer benefits

Orange understands the complexity and demands of communications in today’s business and technology environment. Orange and Microsoft jointly provide innovative messaging and collaboration solutions that deliver a variety of benefits, including:

• improved security and protection
• increased mobility and productivity
• lower costs and increased efficiency

customer case study: NXP Semiconductors worldwide

As a high tech company operating in a very competitive market, it is critical for NXP teams all over the world to collaborate effectively for the company to retain its market leading position. Orange successfully migrated 15,000 users from a Microsoft Live Communication Server-based service to Managed Microsoft Office Communications Server (Release 2). Orange is hosting the service and supporting it with ITIL® standards-based service management and guaranteed levels of service availability.

about Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

• ranked #1 Fortune 500 company in computer software industry (2010)
• highest position in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unfied Communications, July 2010
• positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing, November 2010

• for more information, visit www.microsoft.com