Microsoft India opens Centre of Excellence

Bangalore, May 4: Microsoft India, today announced the opening of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) here for Exchange Server migration in collaboration with Sonata Information Technology to cater to the customers in the Southern region.

Microsoft would also open similar centres in Northern and Western region in collaboration with its partners. The CoEs would develop solutions, tools and applications, which would make migration to the Microsoft platform easy, effective and faster, Microsoft India said here in a release.

Customers who had migrated to the Windows platform including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 include InfoEdge, which owned some of India's leading portals such as Naukri.com, JeevanSaathi.com and 99acres.com.

According to industry estimates, the Unified Communications market was pegged at US dollars 40 billion worldwide. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 was a key component which would enable the delivery of unified communications solutions to customers. Microsoft had recently launched Exchange Server 2007 the next version of Exchange Server, the industry's leading server for e-mail, scheduling, calendering, and unified messaging. The release of Exchange Server 2007 was closely aligned with the Microsoft Office 2007 wave of products, which together deliver a best-in-class enterprise messaging and collaboration solution.

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