Lifting to Clouds

For its own partners and their clients, MERLION has created a universal portal functioning as a single access point to Microsoft’s cloud products and services. MERLION has been nominated as “the Distributor of the Year” in Microsoft corporation, and it also holds the Microsoft Gold Distributor status.

Promotion of cloud technologies is one of world-wide strategic business lines of Microsoft. Transition to a cloud-based business model will permit the clients to decrease costs related to IT infrastructure and its management, to improve fault-tolerance, flexibility and efficiency. Besides, the cloud-based model of IT usage is the ideal option of business development under the present conditions of today’s “turbulent” economy.

The Merlioncloud portal is designed for solving essential business needs of clients and promoting cloud services created by MERLION’s partners on the basis of Microsoft’s technologies. On a single platform, there are most popular cloud solutions aggregated, which are designed for companies of various business types and sizes. MERLION’s expert team helps partners optimize and implement projects meeting the client’s requirements. This portal permits to form quickly a portfolio of cloud services needed by the client and to estimate their usage costs. Aside from consulting support, the suppliers of cloud solutions also have an access to specific marketing resources and the financial support of projects.

Each of the Merlioncloud sections has a Feedback function, which can be used at any moment for applying for a cloud solution demonstration, consultation, or personnel training. Just in the same way, every section of the website is provided with a “Buy” button, which a cloud IT service client can use for placing an order immediately, thus saving the time.

Among the Merlioncloud sections, there is also the one, which is dedicated to Microsoft Azure, a cloud platform permitting to create and to develop the solutions in the global network of Microsoft’s data processing centers quickly, as well as to control them. Another important section is oriented on users of Office 365, one of Microsoft’s key products, the updated version of which has become accessible to users of Windows, iOS, Mac and Android in September. During the last year, 75% of companies from the Fortune 500 List have become the subscribers of Office 365.

As Yelena Rudenko, the Director of SMB Enterprises Cooperation and Microsoft Distribution in Russia, says, Merlioncloud portal is a unique platform, regarding, among other things, its convenient usage by cloud solution providers - MERLION’s partners. The website developers together with Microsoft and leading partners are planning an active development of the created resource with due account for the most recent trends in the cloud business. Today, nobody already doubts that future belongs to the cloud IT infrastructure. We are striving to do everything for our partners to assure that their transition to cloud is timely and smooth for their business.