Outsourcery PLC Vodafone strategic agreement signed TIDMOUT

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Outsourcery PLC

17 January 2014

17 January 2014

Outsourcery plc

Vodafone strategic agreement signed

Outsourcery plc (AIM: OUT, "Outsourcery", or "the Group"), a world-leading Cloud Service Provider has signed a strategic partnership with Vodafone Limited ("Vodafone") a subsidiary of Vodafone Group PLC (LSE/Nasdaq:VOD), following a 12 month business integration process.

The strategic partnership will enable Vodafone to resell Outsourcery's Microsoft-based cloud services, including full Enterprise Voice Lync Server, Exchange Server and related professional services.

The strategic relationship has been expanded beyond the original UK focus to include Vodafone's global enterprise customer base, which required further integration work than had been originally envisaged. The agreement of the strategic partnership will now allow both Outsourcery and Vodafone to focus on revenue generating opportunities.

Piers Linney, Co-CEO, Outsourcery, said:

"We are extremely pleased to have completed the integration work and signed this agreement with such a key strategic partner, as further testament to our expertise and capability as a provider of enterprise-grade cloud services.

"Although the original tender response related to the UK market, we are also pleased that the relationship has been extended to include Vodafone's global enterprise customer base."

Enquiries: 


Outsourcery                     +44 (0)330 313 0077 
 Piers Linney, Co-CEO 
 Simon Newton, Co-CEO 
 
 Investec                        +44 (0)20 7597 5100 
 Andrew Pinder/Patrick Robb 
 Dominic Emery/Carlton Nelson 
 
 College Hill                    +44 (0)20 7457 2020 
 Adrian Duffield/Rozi Morris

About Outsourcery:

Outsourcery is a world-leading Cloud Service Provider (CSP) based in the UK. The Group is channel focused and aims to remove the need for businesses of all sizes to own and manage IT, unified communications and video applications and infrastructure. End-customers range from start-ups to FTSE-100 companies.

Outsourcery has one of the broadest offerings of cloud-based services based on Microsoft technology in the world, covering hosted software applications, virtualised servers and next generation unified communications (based on Lync Server) and collaboration solutions as well professional services to customise and integrate solutions for end-customers. Outsourcery was a founder member of the UK Cloud Industry Forum and is ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 9001 (Quality Management) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) accredited as well as being able to deliver CESG IL2 accredited solutions for the public sector.

Outsourcery was named both Microsoft's worldwide 'Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year' and its worldwide 'Dynamics Hosting Partner of the Year' in 2010. The Group was also one of three finalists for the Microsoft worldwide 'Server Platform Partner of the Year' award in 2013.

Outsourcery is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with a total of six competencies of which three are gold and three silver. Outsourcery employs 120 staff based in three UK offices and operates two UK data centres and was the UK's first certified carbon neutral CSP.

http://www.outsourcery.co.uk

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