EQS-News: DATAGROUP awarded for Microsoft AI and Cloud Ecosystem in the 2025 ISG Provider Lens™ report

Pliezhausen, 20 May 2025 – DATAGROUP has received several awards for the Microsoft AI and Cloud Ecosystem in the current ISG Provider Lens™ report: As “Leader” in “Managed Services for Azure – Midmarket” and “AI Services for the Microsoft Clouds” as well as “Rising Star” in “Microsoft 365 Services – Midmarket”. The awarded services are a component of the Cloud Services of the CORBOX, DATAGROUP’s modular IT service portfolio. These awards acknowledge the innovative power and strategic skills of the IT service provider in accompanying companies on their path to the digital future.

In the dynamic market environment of Managed Public Cloud Services, DATAGROUP has been positioned as “Leader” in the “Managed Services for Azure – Midmarket” Quadrant. The providers classified as Leader have a highly attractive product and services portfolio as well as a particularly strong market and competitive position, meeting all conditions for a successful market development. This assessment covered the extended services around Microsoft Azure, including Kubernetes integration, multi-cloud management and data-based analytics – services that are provided by DATAGROUP in relation to the CORBOX Cloud Services. With a strong focus on security, compliance and FinOps, DATAGROUP delivers automated and AI-based services, making scalable, cost-efficient and highly available IT infrastructure possible for the customers.

Leader in artificial intelligence market of the future
DATAGROUP also received an award as “Leader” in “AI Services for the Microsoft Clouds”. The company impressed with its strategic vision and integration of Microsoft AI technologies into Azure and Microsoft 365, also part of DATAGROUP’s Cloud Services. The offered AI-based services promote automation of business processes, improve data analysis and support sound decision-making – while always meeting the highest security and compliance standards.
Axel Opermann, leading analyst of the report, emphasizes: “DATAGROUP optimizes the use of Microsoft AI and cloud technologies thanks to secure, integrated solutions. Companies benefit from efficient automation, competent advice and compliance-compliant AI implementation.”

Vision and market knowledge
DATAGROUP received the “Rising Star” award in the category “Microsoft 365 Services – Midmarket”. This award is given to companies that have a promising portfolio and the essential market experience, including the necessary roadmap aligned to important market trends and/or customer requirements. Particularly, the rating highlighted the integral services which exceed simple provisioning and migration: From governance and technical integration to operations and support, up to strategic advancement, DATAGROUP helps companies to securely and efficiently use Microsoft 365.
“These awards indicate that we have our finger on the pulse when it comes to our strategic focus on cloud and AI”, explains Mark Schäfer, Chief Operating Officer of DATAGROUP. “The CORCloud, one of the key components of our CORBOX, offers IT services to companies, which can be flexibly scaled, safely integrated and are adopted to the requirements of modern business models. Our multi-cloud management seamlessly combines different cloud services and allows for perfect coordination and optimal scalability.”

About ISG Provider Lens
The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations of ISG’s global advisory team. Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners, while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market knowledge and make recommendations to ISG’s enterprise clients. The research currently covers providers offering their services across multiple geographies globally. For more information about the ISG Provider Lens research visit https://isg-one.com/research/isg-provider-lens.

About ISG
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Founded in 2006, the company is known for its proprietary market data, in-depth knowledge of provider ecosystems, and the expertise of its 1,600 professionals worldwide working together to help clients maximize the value of their technology investments.
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About DATAGROUP
DATAGROUP is one of the leading German IT service providers. Some 3,700 employees at locations across Germany design, implement, and operate IT infrastructures and business applications. With its CORBOX product, DATAGROUP is a full-service provider, supporting global IT workplaces for medium and large enterprises as well as public authorities. DATAGROUP is growing organically and through acquisitions. The acquisition strategy is particularly noted for its optimal integration of new companies. DATAGROUP is actively participating in the consolidation process with its “buy and turn around” and its “buy and build” strategy.
Contact:
DATAGROUP SE
Anke Banaschewski
Investor Relations
Wilhelm-Schickard-Str. 7
72124 Pliezhausen
anke.banaschewski@datagroup.de