Moscow, November 08, 2013. - The leader of the Russian IT market, 1C, and Microsoft agreed on a strategic partnership in the development of the cloud business and conducting a series of pilot projects for deploying 1C solutions on the Microsoft cloud platform. The first solution available on
Windows Azure will be 1C: Enterprise: the company's customers will be able to use the familiar solution as a service from the Microsoft cloud.

Windows Azure provides an affordable and easy-to-use set of services for building and deploying applications in the cloud. The application "1C: Enterprise", an existing, well-known to users of the company's solution, thanks to Windows Azure will be a full-featured cloud service available on any devices - PCs, tablets, smartphones. It is planned that it will be sold in a package with Windows Azure IaaS-functional resources, as well as technical support.
The transition to Windows Azure will speed up the deployment time of the 1C solution in enterprises, taking into account the implementation of industrial needs and individual customer specifics. Partners of the company will be able to improve the quality of service, for example, to improve technological support: since most operations can be carried out remotely, they will be able to serve more clients per unit of time and also concentrate on solving specific tasks.
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“Our customers are expecting comprehensive solutions from us that allow them to take advantage of the cloud. We offer them different formats: classic hosting or from the Microsoft cloud. Using Windows Azure will allow us to develop the cloud business and provide partners and customers with different sizes of business convenient and transparent mechanisms for implementing, operating and licensing, taking into account the dynamics of their needs, ”said Boris Nuraliev, Director of 1C
“We are pleased that 1C, Russia's largest software developer, has launched a series of pilot projects on Windows Azure. Our platform, being an important part of the Cloud OS concept, makes it possible to transfer existing applications to the cloud or develop new ones, ”added Nikolai Pryanishnikov, President of Microsoft in Russia. “We hope that 1C, its partners and customers will appreciate all the advantages of our company's cloud offers, and get all the best that Microsoft’s cloud can provide, in particular, a flexible and reliable platform in one of the company's protected data centers.” .