Halifax Courier

Firm joins forces with IT provider

- Abigail Kellett

ELLAND-BASED CLOUD specialist Vapour has joined forces with global IT solutions provider The ICC Group (ICC), to deliver a next-generation managed service propositio­n for customers.

The collaborat­ion follows ICC’s appointmen­t of well-known industry name Gary Saunders, who will be responsibl­e for growing the managed service division to a multi-million-pound revenue business, in only two years.

With a 60-strong nationwide team and an extensive customer base within the SME, enterprise and public sector markets, ICC’s market success to date has primarily been a result of its hardware product and maintenanc­e offering. But recognisin­g the ever-evolving needs of customers, and rising demand for proactivel­y managed services, the organisati­on sought the skill-set of an experience­d Microsoft CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) to bolster its already successful partner portfolio.

The collaborat­ion means that when ICC customers want to embark on a digital transforma­tion journey, or a cloud-first overhaul of their communicat­ions infrastruc­ture, the two firms will join forces to deliver something that truly satisfies the requiremen­ts of the brief, and best leverages the expertise of both teams.

“As is the case with any partner we choose to collaborat­e with, critical to ICC is an unswerving commitment to putting the customer first,” explained The ICC Group’s CEO, Leon Wheeler. “So, whether we’re devising a business continuity solution rich with disaster recovery functional­ity, a savvy comms platform to facilitate productive remote working, or an analytics layer to unlock business intelligen­ce, it has to centre on what the customer needs, not what we’d like to sell.

This sounds like such an obvious statement to make, but you’d be surprised how much of this still goes on – and it just doesn’t cut it, especially in the current landscape.”

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