Arrow improves cloud management platform for channel

Arrow Electronics has improved ArrowSphere, Arrow’s award-winning, for its channel partners with the tools they need to streamline the transition to Microsoft’s new commerce experience, it said.

Microsoft will now move all seat-based cloud offerings to Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program in its updated move, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Windows 365.

The programme will roll out in January 2022, and it will be the only way to transact seat-based products in CSP for new end customers from March 2022 and existing end customers from July 2022.

Arrow vice president of IT for global cloud at Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business Eric Gourmelen said the transition to Microsoft’s new commerce experience was a significant undertaking for IT, solution providers.

“Arrow is committed to making the transition as seamless as possible. We have added industry-leading functionality to our ArrowSphere platform that helps users easily understand, purchase, and manage products with the new license terms and pricing models. Feedback from early adopters has been extremely positive.”