{"id":123285,"date":"2016-05-11T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=123285"},"modified":"2016-05-13T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T05:42:12","slug":"westcon-comstor-southern-africa-appointed-tier-two-microsoft-csp-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/123285\/westcon-comstor-southern-africa-appointed-tier-two-microsoft-csp-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa appointed Tier 2 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa<\/a><\/strong>, a value-added technology distributor of category-leading solutions in Security, Collaboration, Networking, Cloud and Data Centre, has been appointed a Tier 2 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe addition of the Microsoft CSP programme to the Westcon-Comstor Cloud Solutions Practice enables our customers to own the end-to-end engagement of their clients\u2019 Microsoft cloud solutions,\u201d says Dan Connolly, senior vice president and general manager, Westcon-Comstor Cloud Solutions Practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy being able to directly provision, bill and support Microsoft Cloud Services, our local partners have deeper insight into the trends taking shape within their accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that the appointment as a local CSP will enable us to further our provision of a host of value-added Microsoft services to our resellers,\u201d states Leane Hannigan, director of Cloud Solutions at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis enable us to help them accelerate the cloud journey of their customers and sets us apart from other distributors in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through the Microsoft CSP programme Westcon-Comstor will work directly with resellers to set the prices of product, negotiate the terms of procurement and bill customers locally.<\/p>\n

Key to the success of CSP is the ability for a partner to be able to attach services to product.<\/p>\n

This translates into local resellers being able to use the Westcon-Comstor services team as their first point of contact for all customer support.<\/p>\n

Together, these critical success factors enable Westcon-Comstor customers to fast-track their cloud service delivery.<\/p>\n

The CSP programme is a major component of Microsoft\u2019s strategy to enable end-user customers to move to embrace a \u201ccloud and mobile first\u201d world.<\/p>\n

By allowing partners to own the customer relationship, service the complete customer lifecycle and attach partner services, they are ideally positioned to help the end-user customer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the cloud has taught us anything, it is that the customer wants flexibility from their partner relationships as well as their software and solutions.<\/p>\n

With CSP we will provide our customers the ability to scale solutions up or down on a monthly basis, build effective cloud subscription models as well as provide a platform for partners to leverage cloud subscription models wherever appropriate,\u201d adds Hannigan.<\/p>\n

The longest standing distributor of Microsoft in the region, Westcon-Comstor has for two years running been awarded as the top Microsoft Volume Licensing Cloud Distributor as well as the Microsoft SPLA distie of the year in MEA.<\/p>\n

Westcon-Comstor is the leader and largest deliverer of the \u201cAdvisor model\u201d Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement model in MEA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Partners will now be able to better provision and deliver cloud solutions and services locally and directly with the value-added technology distributor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":123287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26,769,2900,4442],"class_list":["post-123285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-headline","tag-westcon","tag-westcon-group","tag-westcon-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123575,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123285\/revisions\/123575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}