A Quick Onrego Update

June 3, 2014June 3, 2014Leave a comment

Our company, Onrego Ltd, has been accelerating a lot lately. It’s time for a quick review.

In few months Onrego Ltd is having its two-year birthday. Almost two years ago we started with a strong feeling and vision of how the world will change because of cloud. It’s been extremely pleasant to be able to witness how cloud services have developed within these two years but also how customers have progressed with their (cloud) strategies.

Onrego has also developed it’s cloud service portfolio a lot. Most of the solutions we have today can be found from our Finnish pages (Solutions). The latest add-on is our Self-Service Password Reset. Although it’s actually not a cloud service, but it can accelerate our customers towards to cloud. We have also gained new partnerships and today we are:

Microsoft Gold Partner Management and Virtualization

Microsoft System Center Alliance member

Microsoft Azure Circle Partner

Veeam Gold Cloud Provider

Cireson Premier Partner

Riverbed Partner

AppZero Preferred Partner

Let’s keep accelerating!

Greetings from Microsoft Technet Tour 2013!

October 23, 2013October 23, 2013Leave a comment

Microsoft Technet Tour 2013 is on the road on this autumn in Finland! With topics such as Microsoft Cloud OS, Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Hyper-V, Onrego is also attending the tour.

On last week’s Friday, Microsoft released R2 versions of Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012. While most of the IT pros around world started to downloadthe bits, we packed our packs and headed to a tour around Finland to talk about the new features and possibilities Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center and Windows Azure to hundreads of Finnish IT pros and business leaders.

The tour stops at the following cities: Vaasa 10/22, Oulu 10/23, Lappeenranta 10/29, Kuopio 10/30 and Jyväskylä 10/31. More details about the locations and time schedule can be found from Microsoft Finland’s Technet Blog article.

Microsoft’s Mr. Juha Karppinen opens the event with a presentation on Microsoft CloudOS followed with Mr. Antti Alila and Mr. Timo Salminen on Windows Server, Hyper-V and Microsoft VDI. Guys do also have couple of great demos of Windows Azure Multi-Factor authentication and Windows 8.1 Workplace Join and they even managed to show a demo in which an iPad (first time ever?) was used to access data at the workplace using Workplace Join and Windows Azure Multi-Factor authentication.

After a break Neoxen Oy‘s Esa Tervo gave a presentation of Windows Azure IaaS and how Neoxen has implemented Sharepoint sites on Azure Iaas and Mr. Kalle Rissanen from ArrowECS explained how to benefit from Veeam’s products on managing Hyper-V and VMware backups.

On the tour, Onrego’s presentation is about implementing self-service and automation using System Center Service Manager and System Center Orchestrator with half a dozen case examples of what Onrego has already implemented to its customers both as a cloud service (Onrego Online System Center) and as on-premises.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any requests in terms of Windows Server, Hyper-V, Azure, System Center and cloud services.

Greetings from ALSO Expo

October 21, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego attended ALSO Expo in Finland couple of weeks ago and made dozens of new contacts. Let’s summarize the expo with a few pics.

ALSO Finland, the biggest distributor in Finland, had it’s traditional ALSO Expo on October 10, 2013 in Tampere, Finland. Because the target audience for the expo was Finnish IT resellers and Managed Service Providers, Onrego attended the expo with it’s own booth. We made dozens of new contacts with meeting requests so I’d say the event was very successful for us.

There was also a couple of presentations and one of them was by Jukka Kortesniemi from ALSO. Jukka had a presentation concerning cloud services and what to expect from them in a near future.

Onrego had also a chance to attend Microsoft’s own pre-party at Klubi before ALSO’s own party after the expo. I’m very grateful to Mr. Jarkko Lainio from Microsoft Finland as he invited me to join him on the stage with Microsoft’s Mr. Markku Pulkkinen and Mr. Lasse Gerdt and to talk about Onrego and Onrego Online System Center and how Onrego benefits from being a Microsoft Gold Partner.

Finally, Also Expo ended with a much expected party with food and beverige. Evening’s special guest star was Jenni Vartiainen, the most popular female artist in Finland at the moment. What a great event!

Meet Onrego and Onrego’s Cloud Services

September 2, 2013September 3, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego Ltd, the producer of Online System Center systems management cloud service, is attending to a number of seminars and webinars this fall. Come to meet Onrego and discuss about the opportunities of Onrego’s Cloud Services!

So far we have witnessed ramp-ups of collaborative cloud services, such as Microsoft Office 365 and business apps and services translating into SaaS. But what we haven’t yet seen is the movement of IT infrastructure to the cloud. There are Microsoft’s CloudOS vision and Cloud First acts driving us to cloud services. We have talked to a large number of corporations and Managed Service Providers and the trend is clear: IT infrastructure is moving to cloud.

Now, Onrego is concentrating on cloud services that benefits end customers as well as resellers and Managed Service Providers. During this fall we are having a number of seminars and webinars where we are presenting our cloud services and the movement we are about to witness in a near future.

You can meet us at the following events and we are ready to discuss with you about the interesting opportunities cloud services can do for your business.

The following list includes events Onrego is attending this fall. This list does not include private events and there are still a few events to be added later this month.

Date	Event	Where	Organizer	How to attend?
September 3rd	Online System Center webinar	Online	ALSO	http://cloud.also.fi/news/37/55/Onregon-pilvipohjaiset-jaerjestelmaenhallintatyoekalut-webinaari-3-9
September 25th	Also Cloud & Onrego seminar	Microsoft Finland, Espoo	ALSO	http://www.alsoevents.fi Koodi: OSC_Seminaari
September 26th	Also Cloud & Onrego seminar	Tampere	ALSO	http://www.alsoevents.fi Koodi: OSC_Seminaari
October 10th	Also Expo	Tampere-talo, Tampere	ALSO	http://alsoexpo.fi/etusivu/
October 22th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Vaasa	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561255&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 23th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Oulu	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561257&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 29th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Lappeenranta	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561258&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 30th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Kuopio	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561259&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 31th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Lappeenranta	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561260&Culture=fi-FI&community=0

Onrego to Join Aalto Start-Up Center to Accelerate Growth

August 20, 2013August 20, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego Ltd has been approved to Aalto Start-Up Center. Aalto Start-up Center works under Aalto University School of Business and is known for accelerating Rovio’s and Supercell’s growth. Only 20% of applicants are approved and Onrego is one of them! Aalto Start-Up Center is a business incubator located in Helsinki, Finland. It works under Aalto University School of Business and has been accelerating Finnish start-ups from 1997. Couple of well-known startups Aalto Start-Up Center has been helping are Rovio and Supercell. Aalto Start-Up Center is a well-respected and wanted business incubator. According to the company, only 20 % of applicants are approved to join Aalto Start-Up Center. We at Onrego are very pleased to be able to join and get help on accelerating the growth of Onrego.

Onrego’s vision is to provide cloud services for MSP’s and resellers on a global basis to help organizations to benefit from the cloud era. We will see lots of movement towards cloud services in a near future. One of the driving force is the Cloud First policy. For example, President Obama and the government of United States of America is one of the first ones driving eagerly Cloud First policy. Lately, we have seen countries such UK and Australia starting their own Cloud First policies and now the EU has started Cloud for Europe project, with a modest target of trying to reach EUR 250 bn economy boost to European economy. Onrego is working very hard together with Microsoft to be able to provide cloud services that able organizations to move to the cloud. Aalto Start-Up Center will be helping Onrego on its path to fulfill the vision.

For more information about Onrego and Onrego’s vision, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Jarno

Onrego Is Now Part of System Center Alliance

May 8, 2013May 8, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego Ltd has been approved to Microsoft System Center Alliance, a global ecosystem around Microsoft System Center products – the first one from Finland! Onrego is now part of the same ecosystem as are HP, Citrix, F5 Networks, Secunia, EMC, just to name a few!

I’m glad to announce the following news! Onrego Ltd has been approved to Microsoft System Center Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies that work very close with Microsoft System Center and build solutions for System Center products. Onrego’s Online System Center, a cloud based System Center service is also the first member of Microsoft System Center Alliance from Finland.

Onrego and Online System Center has a solution page that describes what Onrego is and what Online System Center is all about. Here is a nice screenshot of the page:

So far we have launched web browser based portal to master the Online System Center and multitenant System Center Configuration Manager 2012 for MSP’s. Pretty soon we are about to launch couple of new great features to our service.

Browser based portal:

Multitenant System Center Configuration Manager 2012:

If you are interested about Onrego’s offering, please do not hesitate to contact us: http://www.onrego.com/en/contact/.

Agile Sales and Lean Startups

April 23, 2013April 23, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego‘s VP Kimmo Vesajoki had a presentation today about Agile Sales at AgileJKL. Check it out!

Agile mindset is one of the few guidelines or best practises one can adopt in a high-tech startup environment. The essence of Lean Startup is the agility of the entire business venture – not just for product development, but also for management, sales, and customer relations. It requires development of human relations and genuine collaboration between all stakeholders, which can only be build on trust. This was Kimmo’s statement at AgileJKL today in Jyväskylä. You can check Kimmo’s Prezi from below.

http://prezi.com/ausddpesemlt/agilejkl-2013-04-23/

Kimmo Rocks!

100% Satisfied Customers

March 26, 2013Leave a comment

In connection with the application process for Microsoft Gold Partnership, we conducted a customer satisfaction survey based on Microsoft CSAT questionnaire. The results are now out and we are proud to share them with you all.

Our customers feel that Onrego is a good partner for them (in fact better than the average of Microsoft Partner), 100% of our customers are satisfied with us and is 100% willing to recommend us and buy from us again. We thank our customers for their trust!

As always, there was room for improvement as well and we will focus in particular on improving the quality of our communication towards our customers. This feedback will help us to develop our activities and we aim to achieve 100% satisfaction also in this area when we conduct the survey again!

We want to use this moment to thank all of our customers and wish them a great, sunny beginning of spring in this vernal equinox!

Thank you for your trust!

Now Onrego’s Cloud Has a Gold Lining!

March 19, 2013March 19, 2013Leave a comment

Six months ago I wrote Onrego’s cloud has a silver lining. Today I announce our cloud has a gold lining. It is about Microsoft Partner Program!

Again I have excellent news to share! Onrego has gained Gold status in Microsoft Partner Program in Management and Virtualization competency. Gold is the highest level in the program.

Gold Management and Virtualization competency means Onrego is one of the best advisors for customers in Microsoft management and virtualization solutions, such as in Microsoft System Center, Hyper-V and Windows Server. Gold level in Microsoft Partner Program is also our commitment to Microsoft and to Microsoft technologies.

Once again I want to thank our clients, Microsoft and the Onrego team! It’s a Bollinger time!

The Onrego Ecosystem

March 14, 2013March 14, 2013Leave a comment

A few blog posts ago I wrote that Onrego is gathering great partners in its ecosystem. Now it’s time to write a little more about The Onrego Ecosystem, what it’s all about and who are the members of it. And what is the most important: how can our clients benefit from The Onrego Ecosystem.

Since the first heartbeat of Onrego Ltd we started to build an ecosystem because it was obvious we couldn’t do what we were planning on doing just by ourselves. For example, with The Onrego Ecosystem, we can deliver Onrego Solution Accelerator service and MSI and App-V packaging services to our clients.

I have three case examples of how our clients have benefit from The Onrego Ecosystem and also how have the members benefit from it as well.

One great example of the power of Onrego Ecosystem is the major deal with Finnish municipalities. Our partner in this case is Centero Oy, that delivers MSI and App-V packaging services with us. Huge opportunity for Centero Oy and great addition to Onrego Online System Center workstation management that definitely greats more value to Finnish municipalities!

Another great example is Onrego Solution Accelerator and Microsoft SQL Server disasters. With Onrego Solution Accelerator our clients can have world class experts to help them with problems such as Microsoft SQL Server crashes. If servers are being monitored with Onrego Online System Center, our clients can escalate alerts to Onrego Solution Accelerator to get instant disaster recovery help for the matter. In one particular case our Onrego Solution Accelerator member Qumio Ltd saved the production of one of our client and prevented million euros lost when their Microsoft SQL Server had been crashed. Great work and great value to our client!

Third great example of The Onrego Ecosystem is our partnership with Verco Ltd. With Verco we can provide additional ITSM planning and implementation services to our clients on Onrego Online System Center Service Desk solution, based on Microsoft System Center Service Manager.

The Onrego Ecosystem consists of the following partners at the moment:

If you are interested about the services The Onrego Ecosystem can deliver, please do not hesitate to contact us!

If you think your company should be part of The Onrego Ecosystem, please do not hesitate to contact me!

JarnoMaki.com

Cloud Services, Azure and Alpine Skiing

Category: Business as usual