Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa yesterday unveiled its cloud-based digital aggregation platform BlueSky.
According to the company, the BlueSky cloud and services management platform provides managed services providers with a portal to transact easily, simplifying the ordering, delivery and management of cloud services.
It puts resellers at the centre of the digital services life cycle, providing visibility into and control over the entire cloud supply chain, says Westcon-Comstor.
The platform allows resellers to more easily monitor their end customers' product procurement and usage, subscription renewals and services contracts via a single sign-on dashboard.
Microsoft is the first local vendor to come on board.
Leane Hannigan, cloud solutions practice director at Westcon-Comstor, says BlueSky will not only shake up the market but will give Westcon-Comstor's customers a distinct competitive advantage.
"The future of distribution is here today with BlueSky. For several months we have been talking about the benefits of digital logistics and now our resellers in Southern Africa can be the first to experience a radical new way of managing their cloud businesses."
According to Hannigan, BlueSky will be delivered as a white-labelled online Portal in the near future, giving resellers a branded storefront for their own end-user customers.
"It also offers extensive intelligence capabilities by way of its ability to efficiently manage the customer-service life cycle from order and deployment to invoicing and renewal, alerting partners through each step of the process."
Dan Connolly, senior vice president and general manager of the cloud solutions practice at Westcon-Comstor, says BlueSky gives managed services providers a single digital environment to better manage and execute all distribution procurement in the future.
"With BlueSky we are giving our partners not only a digital tool for their distribution requirements, but also a system that enables them to brand cloud services as their own, the ability to customise the dashboard for greater visibility of a variety of analytics and information to better manage the order lifecycle."
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