OCRE 2024

Fuel your cloud innovation with OCRE

Challenge

Research and education institutions, government bodies, and nonprofits face mounting challenges: driving innovation, enabling cross-border collaboration, adhering to complex regulations, and stretching limited budgets. These pressures often leave little time to harness the full potential of cutting-edge cloud technologies.

Empower

Through the new OCRE framework, SoftwareOne empowers these organisations to access secure, scalable, and cost-effective multicloud solutions tailored for education and research. The OCRE framework is a standardised contractual set-up and procurement process, ensuring an easy, safe, predictable and controlled way to purchase cloud solutions and professional services.

Simplify

By simplifying procurement and providing expert guidance across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, we help you unlock new possibilities for collaboration, accelerate groundbreaking research, and focus on delivering impact where it matters most.

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SoftwareOne integrating OCRE for Research and Education

Our solutions and relationships with major cloud providers help you innovation and ensure effective cloud utilisation enabling you to focus more time on making societal impact. Key benefits of the OCRE framework for your organisation include:

Cost savings & funding access through OCRE.
Simplified procurement for research institutions.
Enhanced collaboration and security for cloud-based research.
Compliance with EU and institutional regulations.

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One partner, multicloud expertise

35
countries across Europe supported by SoftwareOne across any provider in OCRE 2024.
30
countries where SoftwareOne is a preferred (1st) supplier for at least one cloud provider.
25,000+
higher education, research and not-for-profit organisations able to purchase under OCRE 2024.
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AWS Consulting Partner of the year.

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