Microsoft Office 365 Now Available Through the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace

PHOENIX, AZ--(Marketwired - Mar 9, 2015) - Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced channel partners in the U.S. and Canada can now provision, invoice, manage and support Microsoft Office 365 products and bundles via the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. A proprietary gateway developed by Ingram Micro and its valued partners, the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace enables channel partners to transform and grow their cloud business by offering instant, online access to a wide array of services and solutions from market-leading cloud vendors.

"Ingram Micro is the first master cloud service provider to offer a true, online consumption model for Office 365 that is backed by a suite of migration services and a dedicated service desk," said Renee Bergeron, vice president, Cloud, Ingram Micro. "This allows our resellers to have a more direct relationship with their customers while maintaining the flexibility to bundle their offering with solutions from Ingram Micro or other leading cloud service providers."

To ease deployment and management, the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace is offering channel partners access to the scalable and real-time SkyKick Office 365 Migration Suite and the Ingram Micro Service Desk. SkyKick simplifies and accelerates the sales and migration process to Office 365 for channel partners by providing them full access to the innovator's project automation technology. Simultaneously, the Ingram Micro Service Desk provides direct customer support for those partners that choose not to staff the 24/7 Office 365 support desk required by Microsoft. Channel partners that leverage the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace to sell these solutions gain many advantages including direct access to fully automated ordering and provisioning whereas other distributors must manually place orders for their partners.

"Leading channel partners are leveraging cloud computing to positively impact their business performance," stated Darren Bibby, program vice president, Channels and Alliances Research, IDC. "As a master cloud services provider and one of Microsoft's top distribution partners, Ingram Micro is well positioned to accelerate the adoption of Office 365, and provide the support services channel partners need to build a better, more robust cloud services practice."