Telecom Italia and Microsoft are presenting a new end-to-end offer at Smau to allow small and medium-sized enterprises to benefit from a 360° solution for communication and productivity. The initiative aims to contribute to the digitization of the country by promoting the digital transformation of SMEs thanks to Cloud Computing. Through Telecom Italia's new cloud marketplace Nuvola Store, SMEs will be able to purchase the Cloud Office 365 productivity suite as well as numerous support services for the digital development of companies, starting from virtual servers to application components for management and website development. In this way, Italian SMEs will have a complete range of services available to work more agile and regain efficiency.
Telecom Italia's Nuvola Store allows all companies to choose, purchase and manage the ICT services of their interest in a simple and immediate way. It also offers particularly advantageous conditions for customers who activate Telecom Italia's fixed or mobile connectivity solutions thanks to the possibility of using digital vouchers to adopt Office 365 in an even simpler way as well as multiple cloud storage solutions, messaging, hosting, PEC, domains internet and website creation tools. Office 365 represents one of the flagship solutions of Telecom Italia's Nuvola Store portal and thanks to the agreement with Microsoft on Windows Phone Smartphones, companies can also benefit from an integrated offer to seize the opportunities offered not only by the cloud but also by mobility . Customers, including non-Telecom Italia customers who access Nuvola Store, can access a productivity platform useful for the daily management of business activities anywhere and at any time. Through any device they can take advantage of the always updated version of Office applications, as well as useful messaging and collaboration functions.
Telecom Italia and Microsoft will also launch joint initiatives to train the commercial channel and make Partners capable of accompanying SMEs in the process of adopting the new Cloud and Mobile technologies.
"Thanks to Telecom Italia's Nuvola Store, companies and professionals can access the Office 365 productivity suite and a wide range of ICT services "with a click", declares Francesco Pagliari, head of Industry Solutions - Marketing Business of Telecom Italia. «It is an innovative approach that offers the customer maximum flexibility in choosing the services they really need, as well as the possibility of being able to integrate the services into the connectivity packages at advantageous conditions. The partnership with Microsoft, founded on the conviction of the decisive role that cloud technologies can play in the digitization of the country, confirms our commitment to offering companies of all sizes the most advanced tools to manage their business, increasing their efficiency and competitiveness".
“SMEs are the backbone of the Italian economy, representing 99,9% of all businesses and 80% of employment, but the Report on the state of small and medium-sized enterprises published by the European Commission places Italy among the weak performers. This is why it is essential to support the growth path of SMEs by leveraging the opportunities offered by technology and our partnership with Telecom Italia intends to accelerate their digitization process, making it even easier to adopt innovative tools to support their competitiveness. With Office 365, for example, SMEs can access the same advanced tools that represent added value for larger companies, just think of the fact that 60% of Fortune 500 companies have adopted it in the last year. Even artisans and smaller companies can in fact benefit from remote productivity solutions and real-time collaboration functions integrated into the platform, in an extremely accessible way thanks to the on-demand nature of the service", says Vincenzo Esposito, Director of the Small Division and Media Enterprise and Partner of Microsoft Italy.
