THE WORLD ’ S LARGEST PARTNER ECOSYSTEM
“ Partnership is critically important , because we seek to drive innovation to the defence and intelligence missions we serve . Our technology partners are bringing these new mission capabilities forward . ”
MICROSOFT
THE WORLD ’ S LARGEST PARTNER ECOSYSTEM
Kate Maxwell explains Microsoft ’ s unique partnership position
“ Partnership is critically important , because we seek to drive innovation to the defence and intelligence missions we serve . Our technology partners are bringing these new mission capabilities forward . ”
KATE MAXWELL CTO , DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE WORLDWIDE PUBLIC SECTOR , MICROSOFT
PARTNERSHIP
“ We have more partners than all our top cloud competitors combined . We ’ re partnering with many defence systems integrators as well as independent software vendors . As an example , we partner with Myriad Technologies for multi-domain , multi-level security collaboration . We partner with Semantic AI on artificial intelligence capability . We ’ re collaborating with C3 . ai to help us solve predictive maintenance issues for defense customers . And we ’ re partnering with companies like SES and Kongsberg Satellite Services ( KSAT ) on the space side of the house . And that ’ s just the tip of the iceberg .
“ Partnership is critically important , because we seek to drive innovation to the defence and intelligence missions we serve . Our technology partners are bringing these new mission capabilities forward . And we know a lot of small and commercially-facing independent software vendors have a hard time breaking into the defence community because they might not have the clearance , infrastructure , or domain knowledge needed to do it . They might not have the right license or accreditations to be able to sell to government acquisitions bodies . So enabling technologies – cloud platforms , containerisation , microservice architectures – unlock the door for those companies to come in and serve up their capabilities to defense customers . And that is one way to inject diversity and capability into the defense ecosystem , and drive innovation at the speed of relevance ."
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