08/08/2008 - Data Electronics Announces €3m Partnership Deal with ProStrategy
Data Electronics, Ireland’s leading IT Outsourcing and Managed Services providers, has secured a partnership deal with growing business software solutions and services company ProStrategy. The deal worth in the region of €3m, will enable Data Electronics and ProStrategy to deliver a comprehensive suite of co-location and managed service solutions to a wide variety of clients both nationally and internationally.
The partnership deal comes as ProStrategy plans to expand its product offering to include managed services solutions. The deal will see Data Electronics deliver a wide variety of co-location and managed services solutions including remote and onsite monitoring, storage, back-up, security, data recovery, business continuity, and a range of professional services to ProStategy’s clients. Commenting on the Partnership, Maurice Mortell, CEO, Data Electronics said “Partnerships are crucial to the development of our business as they serve to provide our new and existing customers with an even more comprehensive solution. This partnership reflects the growing demand for Outsourcing and Managed Services that enable companies to reduce operating costs and provide a secure environment for their IT systems.”
“ProStrategy and Data Electronics have a combined operating experience in excess of 30 years and a staff base of 60. By bringing together our extensive experience and expertise in co-location, managed services, ERP and CRM solutions, we feel we have developed a premium offering that will be of huge benefit to our customers,” he added.
Noel Shannon, Managing Director, ProStrategy commented, “This partnership with Data Electronics will enable ProStrategy to offer a more extensive, integrated capability. We will now be in a position to deliver a full-service solution that allows our customers to focus on their core business while we share or assume complete management of mission critical IT equipment, infrastructure and applications.’’
Data Electronics is the only company in the Irish marketplace that integrates countrywide data centre services with field services to offer one-stop IT outsourcing and is the first hosting services provider in Ireland to receive VMware certification. In November 2007, Data Electronics announced investment of €25m in the expansion of a new 100,000 sq ft facility in Ballycoolin, the first phase of which is due to be completed by the end of the year. In the past five years the company has grown its staff base by 20 per cent. Its Network Operation Centre (NOC) can monitor and support businesses 24x7 for a fraction of the cost a company would face recreating this facility in their own operation.
ProStrategy is a principal software solution and services organisation specialising in the delivery of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. The company has a diverse customer base consisting of 150 clients such as Johnson Brothers, Casey’s Furniture, Castlethorn, Masonry Fixings and The Construction Industry Federation.
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