Member Profile: About Berbee
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November 2007
IT solutions provider CDW Berbee has made listening to and understanding clients’ needs its top priority. The company has grown on its successful response to those needs. Valuable partnerships with industry leaders Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft have contributed substantially to that success in that they have provided the customer with tremendous options for IT solution implementations.
In addition, CDW Berbee’s engineers have a stellar track-record in designing and implementing proven solutions. Consistent partner recognition testifies to this fact. In 2006, Cisco granted CDW Berbee Master Specializations in both Unified Communications and Security. It’s a designation that remains strictly reserved for those with the highest level of expertise and experience. The company has also garnered several IBM honors—including a 2006 award for “Best iSeries On-Demand Solution”—and numerous Microsoft Partner Excellence awards.
The company offers an array of products and services that run the gamut of IT solutions needs. Here is a sampling:
Unified Communications (UC) is the convergence of voice, video, messaging, and conferencing in a single manageable platform. UC helps an organization to provide a better customer experience, reduce communications costs, and increase productivity. UC also scales well to accommodate growth, an important consideration in considering needs beyond today. For many customers, the promise of contact center and presence applications on a voice infrastructure proves the deciding factor in choosing a UC solution.
CDW Berbee has completed more than 1,000 UC implementations, and offers a complete lifecyle of UC services, including planning, design, implementation, and managed support services.
Security presents one of the greatest of all IT challenges and responsibilities. While many perceive threat to IT systems as external, organizations learn on a daily basis that security breaches are just as likely to occur from within. CDW Berbee offers a vulnerability assessment that can assist the customer in discerning the best measures to obtain a more secure network environment and avoid devastating damage. Potential solutions include intrusion prevention systems, firewall integration, virtual private networks (VPNs), anti-spam and anti-virus systems, and security management.
Unfortunately, security often remains at the bottom of an organization’s priority list, until systems have been compromised. CDW Berbee encourages a more proactive approach that ultimately saves money, time, and reputation.
Virtualization is one of the most important trends in the IT industry. Server virtualization combines multiple application servers on a single physical server system. Among other benefits, it reduces the number of servers in the data center and increases utilization of company assets.
Network optimization technology makes a network more efficient through the use of application acceleration. Companies can now leverage centralized applications and management, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for local servers and storage. Optimization can also provide high-level application performance on an expanded geographic scale.
Working with partners such as IBM, Cisco and VMware, CDW Berbee provides a range of highly effective virtualization and optimization solutions that can significantly reduce an organization’s total cost of ownership.
Information Worker Solutions can facilitate innovation and collaboration at the level of the organization, within a mobile environment, and with customers and partners. With partners such as Microsoft, CDW Berbee consultants provide solutions that streamline daily functions, access information, increase operational efficiency, and enable important decisions. Such measures empower people to connect not only with valuable information and systems but also with each other. The company also offers full lifecycle services, including strategy briefings, envisioning and design workshops, proof of concept engagements, health checks, and user adoption and training assistance.
Managed Services provide advanced system monitoring and full system management. CDW Berbee can host such services within its own data centers or provide them on a remote basis at the customer site. CDW Berbee already has two state-of-the-art, enterprise data centers—one in Madison, the other in Minneapolis—and is currently building a third that will open in early 2008.
Through its 24x7 managed services and support, CDW Berbee eliminates vacation blackouts, allows an organization to focus on strategic projects, and greatly simplifies compliance with government and industry regulations such as PCI.
Finding the right IT solution no longer has to mean reliance on multiple providers. In fact, such a route now often works to an organization’s detriment both financially and technologically. The constellation of partnerships and expertise that CDW Berbee offers remains unique. It allows the customer not only greater flexibility in obtaining the right solution but also greater assurance in the implementation process. Contact Chris Ashcraft today at (513) 677-4102 to learn how CDW Berbee can assist your organization in attaining its IT goals.
