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By: Milton Moore
The current economic crisis in the US and abroad is of great concern to many businesses. Technology will play a major role in helping firms survive and even thrive during this tough period. The question is what can IT do to deal with the new realities? This is a great time to re-engineer business processes by implementing technologies that can cut cost and increase productivity. Technologies like Virtualization, Virtual Private Networking and Unified Communications are perfect examples.
One
key trend that many organizations are embracing is virtual web meetings.
Many businesses using Cisco’s WebEx Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
solution have seen a major increase in productivity. Training, remote
customer support and meetings can be done via WebEx. Response time is
improved while substantially cutting travel costs and offering a more
eco-friendly solution. Customers also enjoy the benefit of better quality
customer service. WebEx allows interaction via Audio/Video conferencing
and application sharing.
Web
Collaboration is a critical tool for the tech savvy organization. Combined
with the right telephony system it will provide a powerful platform for
all workers. If you would like to discuss how WebEx and Unified Communications
can help your business succeed please
contact us.
About
Milton
Milton Moore is Principal Consultant at IP Consulting, Inc, a CPR partner.
Prior to founding IPC he was a Senior Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems
for more than 6 years. His certifications include the Cisco Certified
Internetwork Expert (Routing & Switching) and the Cisco Certified
Internetwork Expert (Voice). Visit Milton's blog at http://www.voip-tutor.com.
CPR Achieves Advanced Unified Communications
Specialization from Cisco
CPR, a division of Corporate Technologies LLC, is pleased to announce that we have achieved the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco®. This specialization recognizes CPR as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support comprehensive Cisco Unified Communications solutions. In addition, CPR also achieved the SMB Specialization. The SMB Specialization recognizes Cisco resale channel partners whose primary focus is on the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market with fewer than 250 employees.
The Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialization allows CPR to focus on unified communications market opportunities that require advanced product knowledge and the ability to deploy solutions over multiple sites and geographies. These products include Cisco Unified CallManager, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity voice messaging and unified messaging, and Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Videoconferencing and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express.
CPR’s Cisco SMB specialization reflects an increasing depth of sales, technical and service expertise in particular technologies. As a Premier Certified Cisco Partner, CPR has access to comprehensive sales, technical, and lifecycle services training and support from Cisco.
Contact your Account Manager today to find out how CPR can assist your business with their Cisco needs.
Technology Advantage® helps local business
with increasing IT needs
Green Valley Agricultural is a growing fertilizer producer in West Michigan with multiple locations including Caledonia, West Olive, Hamilton and Bangor, Michigan. The company has managed to expand its operations over the past year and continues to succeed in a difficult Michigan economy. Along with company growth, the need for ongoing IT services also increased. The controller was responsible for the majority of the technology maintenance, along with all his other chief responsibilities. Green Valley recognized the need for complete IT support, but were not able to justify the cost of employing a full time IT technician. Green Valley also needed a network refresh, but had limited resources to make a proper self-recommendation.
CPR’s Technology Advantage® program was introduced to Green Valley Agricultural. The program not only gave them the 24x7 support they required, but also help desk support, onsite hours and Exchange maintenance and monitoring. In addition, the Onsite Manager (network device) allowed CPR to perform a network assessment for Green Valley and render a network refresh recommendation based of their current infrastructure and hardware utilization trends. The Onsite Manager also sent patches to Green Valley’s PCs and will continually send updates as well as a monthly service and inventory log for Green Valley Agricultural to view in the future.
By utilizing Technology Advantage, CPR is now able to manage Green Valley’s growing IT requirements. The overall goal to create a suitable full service IT solution, without the cost of hiring an in-house technician, was achieved. “Working with CPR under its Technology Advantage program has given us the IT support and resources our business requires in a rapidly evolving, technological economy.” - Todd Schrotenboer, Controller, Green Valley Agricultural.
To see if Technology Advantage can help your business, click here to request more information or click here watch our podcast.
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Windows Server® 2008 Software As a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, CPR works with Microsoft to offer you top level training on the latest technology, direct from the experts. You'll learn the powerful new management tools and security enhancements of Windows Server 2008 and come away with the skills you need to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2008, as well as a free copy of the software. That's right. Enroll and attend any one of three specific Windows Sever 2008 training classes between June 27 and December 31, 2008 (while supplies last) and you'll receive the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition— FREE. This offer is available for a limited time and only while supplies last so act now. Click here for more details. |
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Fall
2008 Seminar Schedule
CPR is putting together our Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule. Our
goal is to deliver timely and relevant information on topics
that are of interest to our customers. We are working with our
vendor partners to bring you the latest information on all emerging
technologies. Watch the e.news each month to see what seminars
are coming up next. If you have a suggestion on how we can improve
our seminars or an idea for a new topic, please take a minute
to complete a seminar interest survey.