Vodafone Qatar and Microsoft have announced that the two companies are building on their existing partnership in order to provide more digital solutions to businesses across the country.
The companies will integrate their suite of technologies, primarily by incorporating Microsoft Azure as part of Vodafone’s IoT range of products and services.
Business customers in Qatar including government entities, public and private enterprises will enjoy highly secure, reliable and customised features and benefits from Vodafone’s IoT solutions hosted on Microsoft Azure.
Vodafone is using Microsoft Azure as the main platform to host, develop and deliver its own IoT solutions. This includes its IoT Fleet Management solution, which enables the delivery of real-time information such as traffic data, vehicle location, fuel consumption, vehicle status and employee work-time.
Going forward, the strategic collaboration between Vodafone and Microsoft will bring new innovative solutions that will contribute to the digital transformation of the local market, enabling diverse industries and businesses of all sizes to access those that cater to their specific needs.
Mahday Saad E M Al-Hebabi, Enterprise Business Unit director, Vodafone Qatar
As part of our mission to bring innovative digital technologies and solutions to the market, partnering with global players such as Microsoft, and incorporating platforms such as Microsoft Azure, means that we can offer best-of-breed products and services, with a higher standard of security and user experience.
Lana Khalaf, Country Manager at Microsoft Qatar
Since we announced our commitment to invest $5bn in IoT (Internet of Things) and intelligent edge, we have launched more than 100 new services and features in our IoT platform, secured IoT endpoints at scale with Azure sphere and onboarded more than 10,000 IoT partners from intelligent edge to intelligent cloud. We are bringing this investment and innovation to Qatar through our upcoming cloud datacentre region, where customers will be able to tap into the unlimited potential of our trusted easy to use IoT platform to build scalable and secured intelligent edge solutions.
