New partnership with Compass Offices empowering more customers with Office 365 for productivity anywhere and on any device
Hong Kong, December 2, 2014 — Microsoft’s cloud business has continued to gain traction in global markets. The company grew its commercial cloud revenue by 128 percent, the 5th consecutive quarter in which it has more than doubled. Office 365 is now on a $4 billion run rate worldwide. In Hong Kong, Office 365 commercial revenue more than doubled year-on-year, and over 60% of enterprise customers are now running two or more Office 365 workloads. Among SMBs, new cloud customers tripled compared to last year, and sales of new Office 365 have grown six-fold this fiscal year. Microsoft continues to grow its cloud partner ecosystem, and the new partnership with Compass Offices, one of the fastest growing serviced office providers globally, will bring the cloud productivity vision to even more companies in Hong Kong and throughout the region.
“In today’s mobile-first and cloud-first world, we are committed to reinventing productivity to empower every person and every organization to do more and achieve more. Hong Kong is one of the region’s fastest growing cloud markets, and as a testament to our commitment to delivering the industry’s most complete cloud, we are proud to have a datacenter in Hong Kong that provides local and global cloud services to this rapidly growing Asia hub and southern door of China,” said Horace Chow, general manager of Microsoft Hong Kong. “We are also committed to driving new cloud partnerships and are pleased to collaborate with Compass Offices to enable more businesses to take advantage of the enterprise-class cloud services, and to be more productive everywhere in this highly competitive business environment.”
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| (From left to right) Horace Chow, General Manager of Microsoft Hong Kong and Andrew Chung, CEO of Compass Offices |
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Compass Offices opened its first centre in Hong Kong in 2009 and has been growing ever since. Now, it is Hong Kong’s fastest growing serviced office provider and runs 55 operations in markets including Hong Kong, China, Australia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea, among others. Considering its expanding global operation and the will for collaboration across branches and across regions, Compass Offices has piloted Office 365 for its strong mobility capabilities and cross-platform productivity. Compass Offices also strives to revolutionize the serviced office industry by bringing innovative solutions and collaborative working environments to its tenants.
“As a leading serviced office provider, we have a deep understanding of the needs of modern businesses. Companies like us and our tenants have a unique set of demands in mobility, collaboration, and online conferencing to keep their team effective on the go and be able to keep their employees, customers and partners connected with each other,” said Andrew Chung, CEO of Compass Offices. “We have chosen Office 365 as it offers always-on productivity across all platforms and devices, which is unparalleled in the market. Also, its easy deployment and subscription model gives us the utmost flexibility to cope with the expansion of our businesses.”
“With Microsoft’s global cloud scale in delivering enterprise-class productivity and security and its strong local fulfillment support, we believe Microsoft is a trustworthy cloud service provider and our partnership in bringing Office 365 productivity benefits to Compass Offices’ tenants will surely enrich our serviced office offering and provide our tenants with value-added services and the support they need to thrive,” added Chung.
The partnership between Compass Offices and Microsoft brings Compass Offices’ tenants the exclusive benefits of joining regular seminars organized by Microsoft in selected Compass Offices’ premises, testing out Office 365 capabilities on the modern Surface tablet devices and getting special rates on Office 365 solution and mailbox migration. All of these help local businesses to more readily enjoy the benefits of mobility, cost-efficiency, security and scalability in line with different business needs without the hassle.
In addition to expanding its cloud partner ecosystem, Microsoft also introduces many product updates to Office 365, further differentiating its cloud offering from the market. Over the past 12 months, Microsoft has shipped 150 features and updates for Office – with 50 of these in the past three months. Recent updates include delivering a major update to the Office for iPhone apps, updated versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint built from the ground up for iPad, a preview of the new Office for Android Tablet apps, and unlimited OneDrive and OneDrive for Business storage for all Office 365 subscribers at no additional cost.
“Microsoft is a customer-centric and partner-centric company,” added Chow. “Just in the past year, we have grown our cloud partner ecosystem seven-fold to 700 cloud partners, with more to join forces to fulfill our bold vision to reinvent productivity. We look forward to continuing our cloud business growth with more strategic partnerships, more exciting product updates and an even bigger cloud partner momentum, and to continuing to pushing the boundaries on bringing the power of productivity to more companies and mobile workers with Office everywhere, for every person on every device.”
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