“We chose Cloud Direct because, right from the off, our relationship with Henry Bird (Senior Cloud Sales Executive) and Pete Murphy (Modern Workplace Practice Lead) was open and honest, and they made it clear that they understood what our organisation needed and what we were trying to achieve.
That is exactly how the project played out, and when we began working with Liam Sanderson (Modern Workplace Consultant) that same understanding continued. He showed us how to manage the system, and made sure to pass a great deal of knowledge on to our team which helped with their buy-in.”

“Cloud Direct has been great. They sat down with us, asked what we were trying to achieve, then worked with us from planning through to implementation. I really value the personal level of service. Being able to pick up the phone and to speak to someone who knows what we’re trying to do from a business perspective makes a big difference.
The experience has been beyond our expectations and exactly what we were looking for, we’re very happy with the service received.”

“We spoke to partners of all sizes, including some global, household names, but all of our conversations were cold and robotic. The individuals are polite and forthcoming, but the process just felt like a production line in a factory.
That was different when we spoke with Cloud Direct, it was open and collaborative from the outset. Even when it got to the difficult conversations around numbers and finance, it wasn’t adversarial. It was a case of ‘what’s your budget and let’s maximise that – let’s optimise at every stage of the process to get the most out of your investment.”

“For the first time in my year-long search, someone was able to clearly explain to me exactly how the cloud migration would work and what my options were.
When we started the business we only really worked in the UK. Now we have a lot of international customers and travel a lot, so Office 365 really helps us keep on top of emails and meetings, for example. For me, personally, no longer having to manage Exchange on the server has lifted a great burden from my shoulders. I don’t have to stress about our emails anymore.
I feel I chose the right guys for the implementation.”

“We’re very happy with the results. Performance, functionality and support are all very good. We had a quick, smooth turnaround onto the Azure platform and have had no issues with downtime. Azure gives us much more flexibility all round, with access in a secure cloud environment.”

“We represent hundreds of businesses, so our staff are always on the go, advising our members across the country and organising events for them. But they need to be able to access their data, emails and files from everywhere – whether it’s in their office, a client’s office, or anywhere in between.
Cloud Direct has been great at helping us transform our business and lead the way in our market by supporting us to adopt the latest technology.”

“Cloud Direct was a good fit for us. We are a medium sized but ambitious company. We wanted a cloud specialist that understands where we are heading and would give us great service.”

“We knew we wanted to work in Azure, but we needed an expert partner who could explain the options available to us and help us develop our global cloud strategy.
Rather than simply focusing on the technology, Cloud Direct’s specialist engineers listened to our business needs before exploring the different solutions that could work for us.
Moving to Azure has enabled us to improve the support we give the business by speeding up the testing phase of all our projects. We are now able to spin up the resources necessary for multiple applications developments to be tested at the same time.”

“Cloud Direct has been great. They sat down with us, asked what we were trying to achieve, then worked with us from planning through to implementation. I really value the personal level of service. Being able to pick up the phone and to speak to someone who knows what we’re trying to do from a business perspective makes a big difference.”