QuantiQ joins the Cloud Industry Forum

QuantiQ Technology Ltd (“QuantiQ”), which provides business consulting, design, and implementation and managed services to the Microsoft Dynamics community, has joined the Cloud Industry Forum.

CIF, the industry body that aims to improve standards and education in the cloud industry, was formed in 2009 to provide transparency through certification to a Code of Practice for credible online Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and to assist end users in determining the necessary information to enable them to adopt cloud services.
QuantiQ recently completed the purchase of Tectura (UK) Limited (“Tectura”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tectura Corporation. As part of this move QuantiQ has begun an initiative to rebrand and accelerate its UK business through significant investment across the organisation. This will enable the firm to grow the existing Microsoft Dynamics AX and NAV practices, plus launch new ones around Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Cloud solutions.

Stuart Fenton, CEO, QuantiQ, stated: “All of the four major forces in technology today including social, mobile, analytics and cloud can be combined in ERP solutions. Cloud represents the biggest opportunity for clients to enhance their business model and embed the benefits within their daily operations. That’s because cloud is a different paradigm in terms of how employees, clients and partners interact, both with their technology and with each other. The impact of this change can be felt in all sizes of organisation.

“We are seeing a tremendous opportunity for the provision of cloud-based services in the Microsoft Dynamics market and we are actively embracing that. Given our repositioning in the market it therefore made commercial sense to join the Cloud Industry Forum supporting its drive for transparency and standards across the industry,” he added.

The QuantiQ Cloud Solutions is an online on-demand service that hosts Microsoft products and Microsoft Dynamics business suite, as well as all relevant third party products.

Alex Hilton, CEO, Cloud Industry Forum, added: “The UK Cloud market is healthy and strong with the expectation is one of increasing growth (YoY 20%), and with the majority of UK businesses now adopting at least one Cloud-based service and that number is forecast to grow to almost 82% by the end of 2014. Satisfaction levels remain high and two thirds of ends users operating a Cloud Service today expect to extend their footprint of Cloud Services over the coming year.

“CIF’s primary goal is to establish robust standards of transparency, accountability and capability across the cloud industry. We are pleased to welcome QuantiQ to our membership roster. Along with existing members, I am sure that QuantiQ will make an important contribution to the work that we do as an organisation in the drive for industry-wide standards, which in turn will provide comfort and clarity to end users seeking to move to the cloud,” Alex concluded.