11.14.06
Bharti Microsoft in alliance
BHARTI Airtel and Microsoft on Sunday announced a strategic partnership that will offer a range of software and services for SMBs in India. The partnership will begin by offering to Indian SMBs Microsoft Solutions for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration. It will also offer other hosted applications like CRM, Accounting, ERP, Unified communications and select Microsoft ISV applications. Both companies said they hoped to target over 6.5 lakh SMBs in India through this tie-up.
This service is predominantly aimed at companies with five or more employees, and is expected to be available in January 2007. These companies will now be able to enjoy the same experience as large enterprise customers without initial investments using a pay-as-you-go model, Bharti said in a statement.