MICROSOFT
“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 missionswe 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."“ 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,
MICROSOFTPARTNERSHIP
THE WORLD’S LARGEST PARTNER ECOSYSTEM
Kate Maxwell explains Microsoft’s unique partnership position
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