Skokie, IL -- April 13, 2000 -- Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc. has been named one of Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s first National Systems Partners, as part of Sun's comprehensive iForce [tm] Initiative, designed to provide customers with the relationships and expertise they need to get their businesses dot-commed quickly. According to Bill Cate, director of marketing for Americas eSun (sm) Partner Sales, "Forsythe is among the first companies to meet the competency qualifications of a Sun National Systems Partner and is enthusiastically welcomed into this selective group of eSun partners. Forsythe's Sun Microsystems National Systems Partner title exemplifies its industry knowledge and its experience, in addition to its complementary best-of-breed relationships with Veritas, Cisco and Oracle."
"In addition to attaining the numerous and rigorous Sun technical certifications required, we have solid experience in configuring Sun (tm) hardware to get customers' e-initiatives from point 'a' to point 'b'," explains Jamie Holzkamp, director of Sun systems and services at Forsythe. "Also, we have proven experience in working together with other Sun strategic partners to provide comprehensive Sun e-infrastructure solutions. Based on these combined strengths, Sun has recognized us as a important strategic partner to drive Sun solutions to our e-business customers."
As an infrastructure integrator, Forsythe has relied upon a partnership model for years, establishing solid relationships with many best-of-breed partners, to be able to provide their customers with comprehensive, end-to-end solutions. "Our ability to leverage our expertise across all infrastructure components from servers and desktops, to storage, networking and overall systems management allows us to approach our customers' IT concerns with the big picture in mind. Our partnerships give us the versatility and strength to tailor the right solution for each customer's particular needs and deliver all the components smoothly and quickly," adds Mr. Holzkamp. "Not that we stop there ... our services cover the IT lifecycle from the initial assessment phase through financing and 24X7 remote systems management and monitoring."
He further explains, "As e-technology fundamentally shifts and accelerates IT purchase models, Sun's concept of the iForce community is timely. It represents a new level of vendor commitment to a model we've found to be very effective, a model that is ever more crucial if we are to provide complementary e-services and products in a manner that's fast and adaptable to the way people buy things today. By bringing the necessary complement of providers together from a project's inception, it promises to make e-integration projects easier and smoother -- for providers as well as customers."
