Vodafone Qatar Partners with Microsoft on
Collaborative Solutions for Remote Business Teams
01 June 2020
Vodafone Qatar
announced that it has partnered with Microsoft Qatar to promote digital
services and support businesses of all sizes to work remotely. The
partnership includes a set of workplace solutions to work and
collaborate remotely through ‘Microsoft 365’ service including Microsoft
Teams. Vodafone Qatar is currently offering the first six-months free of
charge on selected packages to all businesses.
With businesses across the country
adopting remote working models, Microsoft Teams will empower their
workforce to securely chat, meet, call, and collaborate – all in one
intelligent platform and foster a new culture of work.
The workplace solutions offered
within Microsoft 365 give businesses of every size access to virtual
conferencing and collaboration tools and features, as well as easy
access to all applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
SharePoint, and Microsoft OneNote and Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is a new hub for
business teams to share files, have online conversations, and virtual
meetings all in one place. In addition, business teams will be able to
add multiple applications during calls, record important points in
meetings, and save files on OneDrive.
Vodafone Qatar’s Business Services
Director, Mahday Saad Al Hebabi, said: “With most employees in Qatar
having to work from home due to COVID-19, this has highlighted the need
for businesses to equip their teams with the right tools, especially for
remote communications. Vodafone is very pleased to partner with a
leading company like Microsoft to offer businesses these workplace
solutions - Microsoft 365 including Microsoft Teams, tools that will
have a major role in helping them ensure business continuity and drive
digital transformation.
Lana Khalaf, Country
Manager, Microsoft Qatar, said “Our collaboration with Vodafone reflects
Microsoft’s efforts to support business across Qatar. Together, we look
forward to empowering organizations of all sizes in the country with our
innovations – enabling their workforce to connect remotely, stay safe,
productive and achieve more.”
With the aim of supporting their
remote working and learning, Vodafone Qatar is providing telecom
solutions and tools like Microsoft 365 service including Microsoft Teams
to schools, universities and businesses to help these institutions and
the business sector to grow in these unprecedented times