{"id":76476,"date":"2025-08-26T10:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=76476"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:52:45","slug":"westcon-comstor-and-microsoft-unite-to-accelerate-partner-transformation-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2025\/08\/26\/westcon-comstor-and-microsoft-unite-to-accelerate-partner-transformation-across-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Westcon-Comstor and Microsoft unite to accelerate partner transformation across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summit series kicks off in Johannesburg before heading to Cape Town and Kenya, with a sharp focus on AI, cloud and security enablement for Microsoft partners ready to scale and lead.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westcon-Comstor, a global technology provider and specialist distributor and Microsoft\u2019s primary transformation distributor in South Africa, has announced the Westcon-Comstor | Microsoft Partner Summit: Transformation that Builds Tomorrow<\/em>. The exclusive invite-only event will bring together a select group of partners to explore strategic growth opportunities across Microsoft Cloud, AI and Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summit launches on 28 August in Johannesburg, with regional activations in Cape Town (17 September) and Kenya (9 October), marking a milestone in Westcon-Comstor\u2019s mission to accelerate business transformation in partnership with Microsoft across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe’re not just curating another partner event \u2014 we\u2019re creating a platform for transformation,\u201d said Louise Taute, Managing Director at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa. \u201cAs Microsoft\u2019s primary transformation distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa, we have a responsibility to empower our partners with more than just tools. This summit gives them a tailored pathway to innovate, scale, and lead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agenda will feature sessions on AI business solutions, cloud modernisation and security specialisation \u2014 aligned with Microsoft\u2019s FY26 partner priorities and programmes. Attendees will also be able to design custom transformation plans at Westcon-Comstor\u2019s onsite Transformation Booth and access exclusive offerings, value-added services and co-selling strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is about aligning growth strategies with opportunity,\u201d added Taute. \u201cWe\u2019re helping our partners move from product sellers to solution builders. It\u2019s about meaningful transformation \u2014 and that takes partnership, data, enablement, and vision. That\u2019s what we\u2019re bringing to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendance is by invitation only. Interested Microsoft partners can apply to attend HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summit series kicks off in Johannesburg before heading to Cape Town and Kenya, with a sharp focus on AI, cloud and security enablement for Microsoft partners ready to scale and lead. Westcon-Comstor, a global technology provider and specialist distributor and Microsoft\u2019s primary transformation distributor in South Africa, has announced the Westcon-Comstor | Microsoft Partner Summit: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":63780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16131,13],"tags":[385,496,22,389,176,10,530],"class_list":["post-76476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-top-stories","tag-africa","tag-ai","tag-cloud","tag-digital-transformation","tag-microsoft","tag-security-2","tag-westcon-comstor"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76477,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76476\/revisions\/76477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}