BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Tata Communications, a leading provider of A New World of Communications, today announced it is partnering with Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company, to connect businesses to Salesforce’s cloud CRM solutions, empowering employees to increase engagement and productivity.

Through this global partner interconnect agreement, Tata Communications’ IZO Private platform will connect businesses to Salesforce’s Customer Success Platform, giving customers access to a one-stop-shop for end-to-end management that offers exceptional network performance and end-user experience. The collaboration will provide businesses network uptime and stable application performance, via easy cloud access for MPLS and Ethernet customers. The service delivers fast provisioning, increased productivity, and ensures privacy and data protection through private network connections.

The IZO Private cloud enablement service is part of Tata Communications’ IZO, a global network platform for enhanced hybrid cloud enablement. The game-changing new network IZO platform is the most comprehensive enterprise WAN and cloud enablement platform available today that is uniquely engineered for predictable routing, together with enterprise private and public cloud connectivity and interconnected data centres – making it simple for a business to connect and build its cloud, their way – be it private, public or hybrid.

Julie Woods-Moss, CMO and CEO of NextGen Business at Tata Communications, says, “Tata Communications’ partnership with Salesforce represents another milestone around our IZO cloud enablement platform. Our recent, independent research confirms that organisations are experiencing benefits they didn’t expect from cloud services and realizing competitive advantages from cloud deployments. We are committed to creating a global ecosystem that harnesses our extensive global network and enables global organisations to meet the needs of their businesses and drive customer success by adopting the cloud confidently and securely.”

With Salesforce connecting to the IZO Private cloud enablement service, Tata Communications continues to grow its IZO platform ecosystem, currently consisting of over 20 network providers covering 34 countries and serving 85% of the world's GDP, four of the largest cloud platforms, including Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, and over 50 data centres across the globe. Tata Communications is working in partnership to deliver the most comprehensive enterprise WAN and cloud enablement platform available today.

Tata Communications Ltd.