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Microsoft doesn't do consulting but has an enormous partner ecosystem.
by luckydata 8y ago
Microsoft doesn't do consulting but has an enormous partner ecosystem.
- freeone3000 8y agohttps://www.microsoft.com/en-CA/enterprise/services?activetab=pillars%3aprimaryr13 https://www.microsoft.com/en-CA/enterprise/services?activeta... we kinda do? Microsoft Consulting Services is directly from us, though the extensive partner ecosystem is also important for smaller customers.
- pacaro 8y agoWell, there is Microsoft Consulting Services, so it isn’t quite such a simple picture. But it is true that they haven’t gone down the IBM path.
- luckydata 8y agoIt's a drop in the ocean though, I'm aware there's is a little of that but if you look at revenues you can say that without being too wrong. The in-house stuff is mostly a function designed to enable customers better more than a way to squeeze money out of it. It doesn't even crack the billion dollars (it's around 300M last time I checked). But yeah, I should have known that given the crowd on hacker news I should have protected my statement from the "actually..." crowd.
- tossaway44 8y agoThey do. Usually to very large corporate customers.