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NETconnection Systems deliver innovative communication solutions that enhance the way businesses operate.

With over a decade of experience in systems integration, we understand that information technology is a critical contributor that improves value and performance to business.

NETconnection Systems uses proven offerings, deep business and technology knowledge along with key alliances to deliver high performance solutions which our customers leverage to realise tangible business value.

We have the experience, agility, breadth of solutions and support capability to deliver against corporate and communication goals while mitigating the risks of doing so.
Our range of services includes:
Virtualisation
Storage
Unified Communications
LAN / WAN
Wireless and Mobility
Security
Professional Services & Support
 
Southern office - London
Tel: 020 8649 6200
Northern office - Warrington
Tel: 01925 661 754
E-mail: info@netconnection.co.uk
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NETconnection Systems Feature in February Comms Dealer Magazine

18-02-2010

Siemens UK Indirect Sales Director recognises the importance of working with NETconnection Systems - Enterasys' Number One Reseller in the UK.
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Siemens woos data VARs

1 February, 2010 - 10:37

Siemens' strategy to recruit reseller partners for its UC portfolio through data distributor Sphinx is progressing well. New partners, including the country's largest Enterasys dealer, have come on board in the three months since the Midlands-based firm was appointed for Siemens voice products.

Last October Sphinx became the first IT distributor to join Siemens Enterprise Communications' Go Forward! program, offering end-to-end solutions based on the popular Enterasys networking portfolio. Enterasys is part owned by Siemens through a joint venture led by the Gores Group. Siemens' UK Indirect Sales Director, Leon Mangan, commented: "The first thing we did was look at Sphinx' current Enterasys partners and talk to them about their desire and willingness to get into UC. As a result of which we now have on board and working with us Net Connections, which is Enterasys' number one reseller in the UK."

Resellers who sign up through Sphinx will have access to the HiPath portfolio for the SME market, but Mangan explained that the long-term ambition is to begin transitioning Siemens' enterprise products to an indirect channel over the next few months. By 2011 he expects to have several large resellers working with its OpenScape Unified Communications Server. Mangan says that talks with Sphinx' larger partners have already begun. "We're talking to them now about the technology and what differentiators we have in our UC architecture," he explains. "We're probably going to see, over the next 12 months, 10-12 large enterprise VARs who are interested in engaging with Siemens."

Mangan believes that interest in the Siemens portfolio has been stimulated thanks to efforts by Sphinx and uncertainty surrounding other vendors' product lines. Mangan added: "Sphinx has done some heavy call out days to increase involvement from VARs, but there are clearly challenges with other manufacturers around mergers and takeovers at the moment, and some people are looking at what their options are going forward. We're working hard to make sure we learn from the mistakes some of our competitors may have made moving from a direct to indirect model, and to get the logistics and support processes right."

It's early days for the Siemens and Sphinx partnership, but the telecoms vendor says that data resellers are adapting to the challenges of selling unified communications. "Many data VARs are finding it easier to sell UC than some of our traditional voice channels. The data guys already know the IP and WAN side of things. If they focus on selling the applications of UC, they tend to have an easier ride getting it in and paid."

Working with Sphinx has highlighted some key differences in the problems experienced by data and voice channels as the technology converges around unified communications, according to Tony Smith, Head of UK Distribution at Siemens Enterprise Communications. He said: "Data resellers tend to specialise a lot more. They aren't just ‘data VARs': One might specialise in security, one might specialise in Microsoft solutions, they each have their own areas. The smaller ones are very niche, and are very good at what they do, but they're focused on that. It's only the larger ones that do everything. So the pain point really is in broadening the mindset and learning to ask different questions to the ones they're used to."

One of the biggest opportunities for all resellers over the year ahead, Mangan says, is fixed-mobile convergence. "We combine Enterasys' Siemens voice over data solution with our voice over WiFi solution so we can deliver voice over WiFi," he explains. "There are lots of data dealers who've been working with wireless within Enterasys, and there's an opportunity now for them to cross over into the voice space using the same technology."

The increasing amount of activity from the mobile network providers in FMC deployment doesn't phase Mangan either, even though on the surface it seems they're competing with traditional voice and data providers. Instead, he says, it presents an opportunity. "I won't say who I'm meeting with, but I've spoken with mobile carriers to understand their UC product because I believe they could complement what we're doing," Mangan added.  

NETconnection Systems Awarded Enterasys Partner of the Year 2009

01-02-2010

NETconnection Systems were crowned Enterasys Partner of the Year at the Enterasys Partner Circle Award Ceremony held in London on Friday 29th January 2010. The Multi Award winning company won the prestigious award ahead of all of Enterasys’ European partners.
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NETconnection Systems were crowned Enterasys Partner of the Year at the Enterasys Partner Circle Award Ceremony held in London on Friday 29th January 2010.
The Multi Award winning company won the prestigious award ahead of all of Enterasys’ European partners.

Dean Jones - Enterasys Country Manager says, "We are very pleased to award NETconnection Systems the Enterasys Partner of the Year award for the UK & Ireland. Their technical excellence, support capability and experience across both the public and private sectors were key considerations when making our decision. By embracing the wider Siemens Enterprise Communications Group and its extensive portfolio of voice and data solutions and services, they have been quick to capitalise on the considerable opportunity afforded them. They have shown an unmatched commitment to Enterasys over the years, working together with us in a true spirit of joint venture based on mutual goals and objectives. We look forward to many more years of working in partnership"‪

NETconnection Systems Feature in Channelpro Magazine

28-10-2009

NETconnection Systems feature in the October edition of Channel Pro talking about their approach to public sector projects.
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Courtney Green and Tony Brar from NETconnection, discuss the benefits of partnership in tackling the network infrastructure tender process in the public sector.

Published on Oct 9, 2009

Public sector IT programmes are often complex as they must deliver efficient services as well as providing the highest security and resilience standards with tried and tested suppliers. Sensitive, confidential and personal data is increasingly being stored and processed by multiple public sector organisations in joint service delivery programmes and it is imperative that the IT and communications infrastructure in place is able to minimise any risk.

Many public sector organisations, such as NHS Trusts, follow technology developments closely in order to identify and implement technology that will ensure an improved, secure and more efficient service to ultimately enhance worker productivity and customer experience.

Wireless

Currently many organisations are examining their communications network infrastructure options, either replacing their existing infrastructure entirely or upgrading an existing one by rolling out wireless capabilities to offer flexible and mobile working options. Why? Wireless technology is now mature and stable, and offer staff the ability to wirelessly achieve faster diagnosis in different locations on wireless devices. This is a real productivity enhancer for environments where many workers are not desk-based, such as hospitals, surgeries and social care.

Technology evolution is obviously a key driver for public sector bodies in making purchasing decisions, but what other factors are driving the uptake in wired and wireless network solutions?

A constant backdrop to all decision making in the public is the Operational Efficiency Programme, which has identified ‘breakthrough’ savings of £6.1bn a year by harnessing the public sector’s collective buying power and by streamlining procurement processes.

Unified Communications

In addressing targets while maintaining vital local services, all areas of the public sector are under intense pressure to do more with less – striving for innovation, improved service and lower costs. Cost reductions and legislation are both drivers in deploying new wireless infrastructures and communications advances such as unified communications, as public sector healthcare bodies strive to become more effective. Public bodies are saving tens of thousands of pounds a year because unified communications platforms direct all calls to the WAN, avoiding separate staff mobile call costs.

One such example of this service evolution is a recent project with Barts and The London NHS Trust, to provide an integrated fixed and wireless LAN and security infrastructure. The first phase in a three stage communications programme, the new infrastructure – due for completion in 2010 – will provide a single network able to handle all optical images, video streaming and traffic from multiple wireless devices and PCs for 300 beds at Barts hospital.

This is a major partnership with Enterasys, part of the Siemens Enterprise Communications Group, which will contribute to the wider £1bn building of the new hospitals at Barts (St Bartholomew’s) Smithfield and The Royal London’s Whitechapel sites by Skanska Innisfree, due for final completion in 2016. The two new hospitals will provide state-of-the-art care facilities covering 1,200 beds, boosting the Trust’s capabilities across its three hospitals. The Trust already has a world-wide reputation for excellence, Barts in cancer and cardiac care and The Royal London in acute services.

Partnership

When working on major projects such as this, we believe a that an SI/vendor partnership model is crucial in securing and delivering multi-million pound projects to help public bodies meet demanding specifications for organisation-wide technology deployments.

As a systems integrator, we face intense competition to secure the opportunity to fulfil key public sector procurement requests and it’s important that we can develop strategies to sell as effectively as possible. Experience and market knowledge are clearly important factors in securing such contracts, but increasingly many public sector bodies are looking for a strong, expert knowledge of government markets and processes, as well as a demonstrable vendor/SI partnership to reduce the complexity of interacting with a number of different suppliers. We believe that as an SI, we can provide customers with a fully transparent vendor/SI supply chain that they like and believe in. The way to achieve this is by forming strategic partnerships with vendors to create a specific team for any given project – this presents the customer with fully transparent team that they can buy into, rather than the SI securing the business and keeping the vendor behind the scenes.

Ultimately, as the government continues to place increasing efficiencies pressure on all organisations in the public sector, technology will continue to play an important part in delivering increased operational and monetary efficiency. But the channel community must capitalise on this and understand the sector as effectively as possible when it comes to winning the opportunity to work on major public sector projects? Joining forces with vendors to create a strategic partnership is arguably crucial to creating the winning team – and as competition intensifies it is imperative that you are playing the winning hand.

The published article can be found at at the Channel Pro website http://www.channelpro.co.uk/Resource/334682/the_winning_hand.html 

What our
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We have chosen to partner with NETconnection Systems over the past few years. They have been instrumental in the support of our data networking, security and wireless infrastructure. I have constantly been impressed with their knowledge, responsiveness, professionalism and commitment to customer service. I would not hesitate to recommend them.
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IT Director, TBWA|UK Group