Outsourcery

Outsourcery Plc
Public Limited Company
Industry Cloud computing, unified communications, telecommunications
Headquarters Manchester
Key people
 Piers Linney, Ken Olisa and Simon Newton
Products Unified Communications, Skype for Business, Microsoft Lync, Infrastructure as a Service, Microsoft Exchange Server, hosted video conferencing, connectivity, professional services and Microsoft Office 365
Website Outsourcery.co.uk

Outsourcery Plc, is a UK-based independent Cloud Services Provider (CSP) founded in 2007 by co-CEOs, Piers Linney and Simon Newton.

Organisation and activities

Outsourcery employs approximately 110 people across three offices in Leicester, London and Manchester. The company provides solutions and cloud-based services, offered both directly and via a network of partners. These are deployed on its proprietary O-Cloud platform, housed in Ofcom regulated enterprise grade datacenters.

Outsourcery is a member of the Microsoft Cloud OS Network,[1] a highly selective worldwide consortium of 25 CSPs committed to building solutions on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. Outsourcery is also a founder member of the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF).[2]

Outsourcery's O-Cloud platform is now certified to run government classified information at OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL SENSITIVE over the internet. This gives Outsourcery CESG Pan Government Accreditation (PGA) (formerly IL2) and Public Services Network (PSN) Protect (formerly IL3) connectivity to meet data sovereignty and security specifications for the public sector and UK government.[3]

Outsourcery's Co-CEO, Piers Linney, has become better known since undertaking a two-year stint as a 'Dragon' on series 11 and 12 of the BBC Two television programme, Dragons' Den.[4]

History

Outsourcery’s origins date from 1997 when the business initially provided mobile solutions to UK organisations. Piers Linney and Simon Newton acquired the business and assets of Genesis Communications – an established business-to-business mobile voice and data reseller. In the same year, Genesis acquired an early stage Microsoft application hosting company, Servelogic Limited, enabling it to enter the hosted services market. Between 2007 and 2010, the company saw revenue for cloud-based services grow from zero to over £4 million and the legacy business was subsequently sold through two transactions during 2011 for a total of £15 million.

Outsourcery's Board is led by Ken Olisa OBE (Non-Executive Chairman), along with Piers Linney (Co-founder and Co-CEO), Simon Newton (Co-founder and Co-CEO), Andrew Burton (Non-Executive Director) and Jane Hall (Non-Executive Director).

On 24 May 2013, Outsourcery was admitted to London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).[5] The sale of the legacy mobile distribution business was completed on 3 September 2013.

On 6 November 2013, Outsourcery announced that it had partnered with Dell to design and deploy a secure cloud-based system. The announcement follows Outsourcery's agreement with Microsoft to lead its UK initiative to accelerate the offering of cloud services for the UK public sector, in particular central government.

Awards and accreditations

References

  1. ↑ Microsoft Cloud OS Network Member. "Outsourcery and Microsoft" Outsourcery website
  2. ↑ CIF Founder Member. "Cloud Industry Forum",Outsourcery website
  3. ↑ PGA Accreditation. "Outsourcery's Cloud Platform Gains PGA Accreditation",London South East, London, 29 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Dragons' Den departure. "Piers Linney announces departure from Dragons' Den", The Express, London, 30 January 2015.
  5. ↑ AIM Information "Outsourcery Overview",Outsourcery website
  6. ↑ Outsourcery CIF Accreditation. "Outsourcery certifies against the CIF Code of Practice.",Cloud Industry Forum
  7. ↑ Microsoft Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year Award - Winner. "Microsoft Announces 2010 Partner of the Year Awards Finalists and Winners", Microsoft website, 23 June 2010.
  8. ↑ "Comms Business Awards Winners Delight". Miles Publishing. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  9. ↑ "Mobile News Awards, "2011 Winners,"". 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  10. ↑ "Parallels announces Finalists in Second Annual Partner Awards". Parallels IP Holdings GmbH. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  11. 1 2 "Comms Business Awards, 2013 Winners and Finalists". Miles Publishing. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  12. ↑ "Microsoft announces winners and finalists of the 2013 Partner of the Year awards". Microsoft. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  13. ↑ "Outsourcery on Cloud 9". Manchester Evening News. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  14. ↑ "2014 Winners". ITE Awards. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  15. ↑ "2014 Congratulations to our winners". UK Cloud Awards. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  16. ↑ Microsoft Sales Specialist of the Year - Finalist 2014. "Microsoft Announces 2014 Partner of the Year Winners and Finalists.", Microsoft website, 27 May 2014.
  17. ↑ National Business Awards Finalist 2014. "National Business Awards Finalists 2014", NBA website
  18. ↑ SVC Awards 2014. "SVC Awards Winners 2014", SVC website
  19. ↑ Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2015. "Microsoft Partner Awards Winners and Finalists", Microsoft website

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