CRAYON
1.12.2021 17:12:06 CET | Business Wire | Press release
Crayon , a global leader in IT services and innovation, announced today it is collaborating with Microsoft as it expands its Microsoft Teams subscription portfolio with the addition of a new subscription plan called Teams Essentials.
The concept is simple: For only $4 a month , small businesses get the entire Teams digital meeting experience without having to subscribe to the whole Microsoft 365 Suite.
This means that your company can BYOE – "bring your own email."
“Crayon is excited to be together with Microsoft on launch day for Teams Essentials , offering our partners the ability to order this solution today,” said Crayon CEO Melissa Mulholland . "Microsoft 365 has a complete solution for the digital workplace, but adopting and using the entire suite doesn't necessarily work for all companies. This plan provides easy and affordable access to the core meeting and calling functionalities in Teams."
The solution fits perfectly for Crayon’s 7,500 channel partners , enabling them to deliver an affordable solution to their customer segment.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, digital meeting platforms such as Teams have become an integral part of the everyday work experience. For many organizations, Teams is already the platform where most of their daily operations take place. Today, there are 250 million monthly active users of Teams. In the past 20 months, the use of Teams has expanded tenfold. As the Covid-19 situation remains uncertain and remote working has become routine, digital meetings are expected to become even more common.
"The pandemic has required small businesses to adapt nearly every aspect of their operations, often without access to the right tools or technology," said Jared Spataro, CVP, Modern Work, Microsoft. "Teams Essentials is built specifically to meet the unique needs of small businesses, enabling them to thrive in this new era of work. It brings together video conferencing, group chat and calendaring as the most affordable all-in-one solution in the market today.”
About Crayon:
Crayon is a customer-centric innovation and IT services company. We provide guidance on the best solutions for our clients’ business needs and budget with software, cloud, AI and big data. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Crayon has over 3,300 employees across nearly 40 countries.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005774/en/
Link:
Social Media:
About Business Wire
Subscribe to releases from Business Wire
Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Latest releases from Business Wire
Footprint Expands Into PE-Free Cups, Bringing a Proven, Recyclable and Home-Compostable Alternative to Plastic-Lined Paper Cups Into Production21.7.2026 18:00:00 CEST | Press release
Move strengthens Footprint’s European manufacturing platform and supports growing demand for practical alternatives to single-use plastic Footprint, a materials science and technology company focused on eliminating single-use plastics, today announced it has acquired a recyclable, home-compostable, polyethylene (PE)-free hot and cold cup platform from Transcend Packaging, along with next-generation paper lid and straw solutions. Transcend Packaging is a European company focused on innovation in sustainable packaging solutions. Together, the cup, lid, and straw expand Footprint’s portfolio with a proven solution for the global cup market. Footprint will begin scaling its new PE-free solution through its Poland facility as the company expands across Europe, with North America to follow. As operations ramp in Poland, Footprint will work with Transcend through a manufacturing partnership to support customer continuity across Europe and meet growing demand for practical alternatives to plas
Spectro Cloud Launches PaletteAI Inference Launchpad to Reduce Enterprise Token Costs by up to 70%21.7.2026 16:00:00 CEST | Press release
New turnkey, locally managed PaletteAI Inference Launchpad helps enterprises control token costs with local-first inference, while expanded PaletteAI support for AMD gives customers more choice across GPUs, models and AI infrastructure stacks. Spectro Cloud, a leading provider of AI infrastructure management software, today launched PaletteAI Inference Launchpad, a turnkey, locally managed solution designed to help enterprises reduce token costs by as much as 70% and run AI inference closer to their data, applications and users. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260721597271/en/ The company also announced expanded PaletteAI support for AMD-powered AI infrastructure, including AMD GPUs, AMD GPU Operator, ROCm™ runtime, and the AMD enterprise AI reference stack — including AMD-optimized models from the AMD Inference Microservices (AIMs) catalog. Together, the announcements expand PaletteAI as one platform for prod
RecVue Launches First AI Native Agentic Revenue Operating System21.7.2026 15:03:00 CEST | Press release
New agentic architecture for RevOS runs enterprise revenue across the order-to-cash lifecycle and surfaces cross-system intelligence RecVue, the leader in billing and revenue management solutions, today announced the evolution of RecVue RevOS into the industry's first Agentic Revenue Operating System. In an architectural shift, the now-native agentic revenue management platform moves revenue operations beyond AI-assisted workflows to fully governed, autonomous execution with more than 50 purpose-built agents that work across contracts, invoices and payment data to predict risk, surface anomalies and escalate exceptions throughout the quote-to-cash lifecycle. Enterprise revenue operations have long suffered from a structural gap between billing systems that generate invoices and ERP systems that record transactions. Finance teams face tedious, manual reconciliation month after month, often resulting in delayed cash, billing errors that generate disputes, revenue leakage from ungoverned
Yubico Extends Passkeys Beyond Trusted Authentication to Verified Authorization with Launch of YubiKey 5.821.7.2026 15:00:00 CEST | Press release
YubiKey 5.8 extends hardware-backed assurance from authentication into emerging digital signature, wallet, payment and agentic approval workflows Yubico (NASDAQ STOCKHOLM: YUBICO), the pioneer of phishing-resistant authentication and creator of the original passkey, the YubiKey, today announced the general availability of its YubiKey 5.8 – marking an expansion of the role of the passkey from secure authentication to include verifiable, hardware-backed authorization. The new firmware delivers a foundation for secure enterprise workflows across identity wallets, document signing, and AI-driven approvals, while also providing developers with the critical capabilities needed to test, design and deploy these next-generation security features early. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260721286409/en/ As generative and agentic AI mature to drive rapid, automated cyberattacks, traditional multi-factor authentication (MFA
Gurobi Publishes Inaugural State of Mathematical Optimization in Academia Report21.7.2026 15:00:00 CEST | Press release
Findings showcase how academics are leveraging optimization alongside GenAI tools in the classroom and in research today. Gurobi Optimization, LLC, the leader in decision intelligence technology, today announced the publication of its inaugural State of Mathematical Optimization in Academia Report. Based on surveys of over 1,180 faculty and students who actively use Gurobi, the report examines how optimization is being taught, used in research, and applied across academia today—as well as use cases that could benefit from a combination of generative AI (GenAI) with optimization. Gurobi’s research highlights the importance of making optimization education and tools accessible to students and instructors. “Mathematical optimization is powering some of the most effective decision-making across today’s enterprises, and the academic community is key to advancing its theory and practice,” said Duke Perrucci, CEO, Gurobi. “By exploring how students, researchers, and educators are teaching and
In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.
Visit our pressroom