TM teams up with TeAM to bring the cloud to ISVs and SMEs
- TM to makes cloud offerings to be had to Malaysian SMEs via its self-provider internet portal BizApp Store
- VADS to offer TeAM participants with an opportunity testing and improvement platform via its IaaS and PaaS offerings
TELEKOM Malaysia Berhad (TM) has inked an settlement with the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia (TeAM) to carry cloud computing offerings to Malaysian small and medium establishments (SMEs) via TM’s subsidiary VADS.
Under the agreement, TeAM contributors could be able to marketplace and sell their cloud applications thru TM’s BizApp Store, a self-service web portal that gives a wide variety of commercial enterprise applications advanced through global software agencies and nearby impartial software carriers (ISVs).
“Both parties could be able to leverage on and take part with every different’s joint marketing and sales activities,” said Azizi A. Hadi, TM’s SME govt vice president. “Meanwhile TM is about to benefit from the training, demontrations and troubleshooting supplied by TeAM’s ISVs to our employees underneath this agreement.”
“TM additionally sees the collaboration as an street to boom broadband usage and accelerate ICT adoption among Malaysians,” he added.
At the same event, VADS also signed a separate collaboration agreement with TeAM to provide a cloud platform for TeAM’s ISVs.
The agreement marks a partnership among the 2 organizations with VADS imparting its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) systems to local ISVs to increase and test their applications. Local ISVs can even have a risk to sell their packages on TM’s BizApp Store.
“Backed by TM’s tremendous network, we provide one of the maximum complete cloud services inside the country ranging from IaaS and PaaS to SaaS (Software-as-a-Service),” said VADS chief executive officer Ahmad Azhar Yahya.
“In order to sell the adoption of cloud services among local ISVs, we have decided to go into into this partnership with TeAM, getting access to approximately 400 local ISVs.
“Our collaboration with TeAM is based on reseller version wherein TeAM may be responsible for recruiting its ISV individuals to come on board the BizApp Store to sell their programs. At the identical time, the ISVs can also make use of our IaaS and PaaS structures for trying out and development.
“… Local ISVs will have a platform to broaden their programs, and at the same time, an avenue to promote their merchandise,” he delivered.
TeAM became shaped to further the pursuits of technopreneurs and to assist inside the improvement of the Digital Economy in Malaysia.
“This is where the collaboration among TeAM, TM and VADS will play a massive position in assisting SMEs in Malaysia,” stated TeAM president Aziz Ismail. “TeAM members apprehend the desires of SMEs.”
Available on account that May 2012, TM’s BizApp Store is a SaaS marketplace for web-based applications and software program. For extra facts on TM and its product offerings for the SME segment, go browsing to http://www.tm.com.my/. To research greater about VADS and its products and services, log on to http://www.vads.com/. To discover more about TeAM, go to http://www.group.net.my/.
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