Quest On Demand, our Microsoft Platform Management, first cloud-hosted, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution was launched.
The first release of Quest On Demand delivers solutions that make it easy for organizations to rapidly backup and recover Azure AD and Office 365 users, attributes, groups and group membership. Additionally, it allows for secure access to Microsoft Exchange Online and Skype for Business Online features through automated policy management.
In an interview, President and GM, Michael Tweddle shared that “Quest is committed to helping customers leverage their Microsoft investments, and with more organizations managing workloads in the cloud, they need simple, reliable tools to help them efficiently secure, manage and recover those workloads. Quest On Demand helps organizations leverage – and benefit from – the variety of productivity platforms that comes with Office 365 in a simple-to-use SaaS offering.”
Check out Michael Tweddle’s Quest Community Blog as well as our Press Release if you haven’t already read them!
We will be holding a partner training on Quest On Demand September 14th at 10:30EST - please REGISTER here.
Check out the Media Coverage we received from Day 1:
Overall, stories have been neutral and positive in tone, highlighting the benefits of the On Demand solution for organizations adopting Office 365 and Azure AD cloud platforms. Additionally, stories reinforce the MPM business focus on a SaaS delivery model and commitment to delivering new modules to market for On Demand quickly. Below please find coverage highlights, including links to each story and notable quotes. An end-of-week coverage report will be delivered on Friday. Many thanks to the entire MPM marketing team and especially Michael Tweddle and Brad Kirby for taking the time to participate in the reporter interviews.
Original Articles:
ChannelBuzz: “ Quest unveils new Quest on Demand SaaS platform for Microsoft solutions “ by Mark Cox, July 11, 2017
- Kirby said that while Quest will continue to update and support its on-prem Microsoft platform management solutions, this SaaS platform is clearly the future.
- “SaaS is becoming the preferred method for software delivery, in part because SaaS vendors have established a faster innovation cadence,” he said. “This demand has been building for some time and Microsoft has been a key contributor to that. SaaS represents the future of our platform management business. We will have on-prem for some time, but we see this as the innovation centre.”
Redmond Channel: “ Quest On Demand Service Now Available To Ease Office 365 and Azure Active Directory Management Woes” by Kurt Mackie, July 11, 2017
- Quest On Demand is a new SaaS platform that has been at the preview stage since March. Today, it’s ready for commercial use, along with the new modules. The platform is “100 percent born in the cloud” and runs on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, according Michael Tweddle, president and general manager of the Quest Microsoft Platform Management Business Unit.
- “On Demand will be that SaaS offering that we build around for the future,” said Brad Kirby, director of product management at Quest.
IT Business Edge: “ Quest Software Launches Management Service Hosted in the Cloud” by Mike Vizard, July 11, 2017
- Michael Tweddle, president and general manager of the Quest Microsoft Platform Management business, says the first release of Quest On Demand will make it simpler to back up and recover Azure AD and Office 365 instances, attributes, groups and group membership.
- It’s unclear to what degree management of IT will move to the cloud regardless of where the application workloads are deployed. But if the management platforms running in the cloud provide a richer, more elegant experience, chances are high that IT departments will pursue the option that reduces their meantime to remediation most often.
IT Windows Pro: Quest Launches ‘On Demand’ SaaS Platform for Managing MS Online Apps” by Christine Hall, July 11, 2017
- This makes sense for Quest. As business customers continue to move more of their workloads to the cloud, traditional software developers have moved along with them — or led the way.
- Through its Microsoft Platform Management unit, Quest has already been helping users of Microsoft’s platform with their cloud ambitions, whether by helping them establish all public cloud infrastructures or by aiding enterprise customers build hybrid cloud environments to migrate from legacy, on-prem products to Redmond’s Azure-hosted SaaS platform.
- Quest is merely taking the next logical step by creating its own cloud-based Microsoft management tools and offering them as SaaS. Quest has plans for On Demand to eventually offer a single pane of glass for complete management of Microsoft’s SaaS platform. The platform utilizes plugins, which will make it easy to add capabilities as they are developed.
eWeek: New Quest SaaS Package Manages Azure AD, Office 365 ” by C. Preimesberger, July 11, 2017
- On Demand, the first SaaS platform from the Quest Microsoft Platform Management business, is automated and designed to handle any size workload. As with all SaaS applications, users don’t have to install/configure on-premises software nor manage the rollout of updates.
