UCS Forms Strategic Partnership With Internet Solutions
Feb 27 2007
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UCS Solutions, a division of UCS Group, today announced a strategic partnership with Internet Solutions (IS) to strengthen their combined market offerings with effect from 1 November 2006.
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The collaboration recognises the opportunities unlocked by the convergence of various technologies to provide a wider group of customers with a more comprehensive range of services. The agreement focuses on six defined areas of collaboration and revenue sharing:
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- Provisioning of Network Services
- UCS Group Financial switching and value added services
- Reseller Arrangements
- Distributed Infrastructure Support
- Data Centre Hosting
- Product Sales
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The existing products and services of UCS are expected to complement and enhance the overall basket of options available to the IS network community, effectively positioning the partnership as a flexible, innovative and customer oriented market player.
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The parties have embarked on a joint planning process for the implementation of the sale of the going concern business and the broader strategic partnership which will incorporate further contractual arrangements between the network provider and the various trading subsidiary companies within the UCS Group.
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Richard Newton, CEO of UCS Solutions, commented: “We are delighted to partner with Internet Solutions to significantly improve and strengthen our combined service offering. Internet Solutions’ leadership position, innovative approach and evident work synergies were key considerations in this venture. We expect to broaden this initial strategic partnership with further contractual arrangements between Internet Solutions and the various trading subsidiary companies within the UCS Group.”
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Angus MacRobert, CEO of Internet Solutions, commented: "This is an attractive growth opportunity for both parties. We joined forces to effectively leverage off our respective market leading positions. The combined solutions offering is to be innovative and flexible while maintaining a customer centric approach and harnessing UCS’ particular strength in the retail and government vertical market sectors. We can now serve the widest range of customers with distributed locations."