SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, June 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), the world's largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today launched a new offer in collaboration with Microsoft Corp., through which GoDaddy will provide Microsoft Office 365 to small businesses across Asian markets. By offering Office 365, GoDaddy is providing customers with seamless access to professional email connected to a domain name, secure cloud storage, and a comprehensive set of productivity and collaboration capabilities.
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Microsoft Office 365 from GoDaddy is now available in 14 markets across Asia, including: Hong Kong (English and Traditional Chinese), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia (English and Malay), Philippines (English and Filipino), Singapore (English and Simplified Chinese), South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
This relationship supports GoDaddy's ongoing push to deliver premium small business management solutions globally. Serving 14 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy created a simple experience to help small businesses get up and running with Office 365, backed by best-in-class customer support. These solutions help customers look professional with every email they send with personalized email addresses that end with their domain name, while allowing employees to communicate, collaborate and take their critical business applications with them anywhere they go.
"GoDaddy's small business expertise combined with Microsoft's email and productivity offering provides small business owners in Asia with solutions to make the business of running their business much easier," said Roger Chen, Vice President of Asia, GoDaddy. "Our research shows consumers are nine times more likely to choose a company that uses a professional email address with its owndomain name. We've created an experience that makes this simple for businesses of any size."
"Office 365 from GoDaddy offers business-class email and shared calendars powered by Exchange Online, up to 1TB of secure online storage for document sharing, real-time collaboration capabilities, and both client and web versions of Microsoft Office apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and more). These capabilities are delivered as a cloud service available to users wherever they are, online or offline and across a variety of devices. Office 365 also includes enterprise-grade, built-in security features that help deflect malware, spam, phishing attacks and other threats," said Parri Munsell, Senior Director O365, Microsoft.
GoDaddy offers a complete suite of cloud-based products in local language and currency to help small businesses find the perfect domain name, create a beautiful website, find new customers and improve business productivity.
About GoDaddy
GoDaddy's mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With 14 million customers worldwide and 62 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business. To learn more about the Company, visit www.GoDaddy.com.
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