REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft
Corp. and General Electric (NYSE: GE) have signed an agreement to
deliver Microsoft's cloud productivity suite Office 365 to GE's
more than 300,000 employees across 170 countries worldwide.
"As we deepen our investments in employee productivity,
Microsoft's innovative approach to collaboration made Office 365
our first choice for providing scalable productivity tools to our
employees worldwide," said Jamie
Miller, senior vice president and CIO of GE.
GE's IT organization, which is recognized as one of the most
strategic and forward-thinking among large enterprises worldwide,
selected Office 365 based on Microsoft's ability to deliver rich
productivity experiences at massive scale across devices and
platforms, as well as its ability to rapidly and reliably deploy to
GE's large global employee population. Specifically, Office 365
will provide several key benefits to GE and its employees,
including these:
- A comprehensive and integrated set of productivity capabilities
including email, Skype for Business calling and meetings, real-time
document co-authoring, and team collaboration
- Extensibility of the Office 365 platform, which will enable GE
to enhance the capabilities of critical line-of-business
applications by connecting to Office 365 through open APIs
- IT controls and security capabilities that enable GE to provide
employees with secured access to information and full productivity
capabilities on a multitude of devices, while adhering to corporate
policies, industry regulations and legal requirements
"Microsoft and GE share many values in common — openness,
transparency, data-driven intelligence and innovation — all of
which are driving forces behind Microsoft's own mission to help
people and organizations achieve more," said John Case, corporate vice president of Microsoft
Office. "As one of the most innovative companies in the world, GE
understands what it takes to unleash the potential of its
employees. We're delighted GE has selected Office 365 as the
productivity and collaboration solution to empower its global
workforce."
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
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