Microsoft COO says This Obscure Product Will Become a Billion-dollar Business

No matter what the new mission Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is to allow people vaguely "to get more," he focused on one thing: to have cloud computing.

Not only Microsoft compete head to head with the market leader Amazon to encourage programmers and companies manage their applications on the cloud service Microsoft, also sets all kinds of applications on their own cloud the sale of the same. This exceeds Office 365 (its cloud version of Office), and Microsoft Dynamics (his sales application of cloud computing, which competes with Salesforce).

One of these cloud services is called Enterprise Mobility Suite, and Wednesday, speaking at the Worldwide Partner Conference in society in Orlando, Florida, COO Kevin Turner said thousands of resellers of the company think that product will become a billion dollar business in the future, the CRN reports. He wants now sell and adding their own applications, services above it.

Enterprise Mobility Suite is a combination of three of Microsoft's cloud services:

• Azure Active Directory Premium, which manages passwords for employees for Windows and for thousands of other cloud apps, and can help a company detect if its being attacked

• Microsoft Intune, which manages and protects the mobile devices themselves, from Windows PCs and laptops to Android/iOS/Windows smartphones

• Azure Rights Management, which can password protect the data itself so sensitive documents can't be seen by unauthorized people. 

Each of these can be sold separately for $ 6 / month per employee, but Microsoft gathers them together for $ 7.60 / month per employee. Note that companies.

This seems to be a winning combination so far. In April, when Microsoft announced earnings, Nadella said analysts Enterprise Mobility Suite is growing rapidly and has had at that time more than 13,000 corporate clients.

He used as an example of one of the "premium" services where Microsoft can zoom profitable competitive edge in the cloud, without being involved in the "race to zero" price war going on in other areas of cloud computing, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

That said, there is plenty of competition in all areas of software and mobile management already, including companies such as SAP, IBM and VMware, and market specialists with an emphasis phone or in a more specific cloud as Good Technology, MobileIron and Okta.