Microsoft will remain as HubOne's "anchor" vendor partner - not just for BPOS but also for Windows Azure.
The company has also partnered with Nivio cloud desktop and Amazon EC2.
"We're absolutely about public cloud, we're not hosting things ourselves. I think it's important to leverage what the 'whales' in the cloud are doing rather than try and go build your own infrastructure. Which is the same way traditional resellers worked anyway," he said.
Beaugeard said future vendor partners will be driven by customers.
"We're doing a big drive into a number of customer verticals...helping customers build a strategy and then using those strategies ourselves to decide which of the vendors we work with. Some are good, some are bad. I want that to be led by our customers," Beaugeard said.
Internal transformation
In the process of changing the business model HubOne shifted its internal process to the cloud.
Beaugeard said that he was "proud to turn off the last on premise server at 10pm on Thursday 30 June.
"We like to walk our talk rather than just talk it. So we have no internal servers whatsoever. All of our systems run on the cloud today. It was a fairly chunky IT transformation," he said.
HubOne moved everything from accounts to CRM to messaging onto cloud platforms.
"We had on premise Exchange, we do software development so we had a Microsoft Team Foundation Server, a bunch of big SQL servers, our CRM system on premise, and our accounting system and ERP.
"We had to find solutions to move all of that up to the cloud and that included going with Microsoft Dynamics online and taking our website to Windows Azure."
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