Momentum Builds for Professional Services Around Microsoft

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CompuCom, a leading PC services integration company, and Microsoft have announced a major agreement to recruit, train, and certify 200 systems engineers as Microsoft Certified Professionals. This effort will enhance the delivery of services for Microsoft BackOffice products in large corporate environments throughout the United States. The agreement represents a joint commitment from both companies to serve corporate customers migrating enterprise networks to Microsoft Windows NT Server operating systems.

Key Takeaways:

  • CompuCom and Microsoft have signed a major agreement to recruit, train, and certify 200 systems engineers as Microsoft Certified Professionals within the next 12 months.
  • These systems engineers will deliver a full spectrum of services, including design, installation, integration, and support, for Microsoft BackOffice products in large corporate environments.
  • The agreement will nearly double CompuCom's staff of service engineers, bringing its total systems engineer staff to approximately 400 by year-end and 500 by June 1996.
  • CompuCom plans to measure the program's success by the number of solutions implemented using Microsoft technologies and the number of systems engineers qualified as Microsoft Certified Professionals.
  • The training classes will begin on June 19 and run throughout the next 12 months, covering Microsoft BackOffice technologies, including Windows NT Server and SQL Server.
  • CompuCom has established career paths and core competencies for all current and future systems engineers to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality services in its 40 branches nationwide.
  • This agreement highlights CompuCom's strategy to increase its systems engineer resources and expand its enterprise network integration services through both internal growth and the acquisition of regional service companies.

Statistics:

  • 200 systems engineers will be recruited, trained, and certified as Microsoft Certified Professionals within the next 12 months.
  • CompuCom's staff of service engineers will increase from approximately 200 to 400 by year-end and 500 by June 1996.
  • The hiring and training process will run for 12 months.
  • Microsoft BackOffice is an integrated suite of server applications designed to help customers effectively use distributed information to improve productivity and streamline business processes in client-server computing environments.

Sources:

  • CompuCom Systems Inc.
  • Microsoft Corp.
  • Nasdaq: CMPC and MSFT
  • June 13 /PRNewswire/
  • June 19