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Newcastle IT specialists to join Microsoft’s global advisory council

Technology giant Microsoft has invited Newcastle IT specialists Technology Services Group on to its elite global advisory council for key partners.

The council made up of just 27 official reseller partners from all over the world meets bi-annually at Microsoft’s Seattle headquarters and Technology Services Group (TSG) is one of only two UK businesses honoured with a seat.

Paul Burns, National Technical Director at TSG, who has just returned from Seattle, explained: “As one of the UK’s largest end to end IT solution resellers, this is huge news for TSG.

“The Global Partner Advisory Council gives us a great chance to talk to other large partners from around the world as well as to represent our customers directly in front of Microsoft.

“The council is the perfect platform to feedback to Microsoft what we see among products as working well or not for our customers. So we have an opportunity to influence the development and delivery of their products which will ultimately improve the experience for our customers.”

TSG’s CEO David Stonehouse added: “This recognition shows how Microsoft values TSG as a key partner with a suitably influential audience of good, mid-market sized businesses.

“Our envied status as a Microsoft partner demonstrates that we have the right breadth of experience and expertise across everything from Dynamics NAV and SharePoint to Office 365. This means that we’re perfectly aligned to support our customers’ investments in their IT strategies as they grow with us.”

TSG are also representatives on Microsoft’s UK Advisory Council and next month will be one of only a dozen UK reseller partners invited to participate in discussions around how the latest Windows 10 operating system will be launched into the UK market and review what features will be included at release.

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