Microsoft joined forces with Newcastle company Computer Systems Australia (CSA) to launch the highly anticipated BPOS "Cloud Computing" solutions as the RECON 2010 Business Expo in Newcastle last week. More than 150 information technology executives, representing more than 100 leading Hunter companies, attended the event hosted by CSA at the Crowne Plaza.

"Microsoft were gobsmacked, they said they had never seen this many peopel attend a (partner) expo they had done before," CSA marketing Manager Grant Belcher said. 

Australia's leading integrator of Risk-Tolerant Information and Communications solutions has today formally launched the IT industry's very first solutions profiler. Responding to feedback from customers that they were being overwhelmed with often irrelevant product-centric IT offers, CSA has created the 'XITPAIN' campaign which sought to remove the pain and frustration of chosing IT solutions to meet future requirements.

CSA Marketing Manager Grant Belcher, says "XITPAIN is long overdue for the IT industry. We have reversed the traditional channel model by asking customers and prospects to tell us what their IT priorities are for the next 12 months and we'll do the rest". Using the new PP5 profiling algorithm the customer simply enters a score from 1 to 5 indicating their priority in addressing a known "pain point" such as cost reduction, green computing or risk mitigation. PP5 then creates a unique "pentagram fingerprint" for that customer and profiles that against our full range of vendor IT solutions in software, server, storage, security, communications, networking and more. It produces a "prescription" of the best solutions to achieve a customers goals over the next 12 months.

Local Government will be the first vertical market to benefit from XITPAIN and PP5 and premieres this week at the 2009 CIVICA National Users Conference in Sydney. Grant Belcher says "For the first time customers can get a vendor-neutral mix of solutions tailored to their needs from a single website. This will save a grea deal of time and effort for IT managers looking to invest wisely in IT". Go to www.pp5.com.au

CSA NOW ON GOVT TELECOMMUNCATIONS TENDER PANEL

Computer Systems Australia on approved Telecommunications panel contract for NSW Government

Monday, April 27, 2009

This week CSA, Australia’s leading integrator of Risk-Tolerant Information and Communication Solutions, was approved to be on the panel contract for the NSW Government Telecommunications Agreement (GTA) Category 5 - 0800542 and 0800182.

The GTA will improve the procurement process for telecommunications systems and services by engaging Government departments and agencies to use panel contractors. As well as generating lower costs and improved efficiencies to Government, it also offers benefits for successful tender providers such as CSA.

The NSW Government has amalgamated the annual procurement of almost $300 million of communications and collaboration solutions via the new panel contracts.
 
CSA’s Managing Director, John Schneider, is very excited by the panel appointment for CSA. “While CSA has already enjoyed a long and successful history of communications projects with Local Governments across NSW, acceptance onto GTA 5 will enable both CSA and NSW Government to partner more effectively resulting in more resilient communication solutions and successful project outcomes.”

“CSA is excited at the prospect of delivering risk-tolerant IP Telephony, unified communications, wireless, mobility and collaboration solutions to NSW Government agencies. Additionally while delivering excellent value, lower TCO and meeting new environmental requirements”. said Mr. Schneider.

For further Information contact

Grant Belcher - Marketing Manager on 4915 1105

This week CSA celebrates the launch of its new corporate branding. Computer Systems Australia (CSA) has finally retired its friendly, familiar face which has existed in various forms since 1986. The bold new logo and corporate livery reflect CSA's emerging competitive strengths and a more contemporary visual identity.

More importantly however the new brand signifies a more differentiated brand positioning against competitors. For many years CSA has focused on reliable, resilient IT projects, hardware, communications and infrastructure.

CSA is now Australia's leading integrator of Risk-Tolerant Information and Communication Solutions. We are the first integrator in Australia to use the P3 Risk-Tolerant Methodology. P3 is a holistic approach to your IT needs expertly balancing Effective People, Resilient Product and Risk-Tolerant process. P3 helps minimise project risk and increases the reliability, resilience and overall success of your project.

After much research CSA determined this is the area customers really needed to see outcomes and with P3, CSA offers the assurance and peace of mind which a resilient, risk-tolerant solution provides.

CSA's new logo graphic has been inspired by titanium, one of the World's most resilient metals and strongest for its weight. These attributes were a perfect symbol for CSA and the graphic device itself is the stylised molecular structure for titanium.

Company Computer Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd (CSA) has completed an unprecedented clean sweep of coveted awards from global networking leader Cisco®. CSA has been awarded 2007 Australia-New Zealand Commercial Partner of the Year – meaning it has won all three awards available to Cisco Premium Partners in Australia. It follows the recent honours of 2006 Cisco Asia-Pacific Business Partner of the Year and 2006 Cisco ANZ SMB Partner of the Year awarded to CSA in Shanghai and Las Vegas respectively. CSA was presented with the coveted award for the Australia New Zealand region at Cisco’s APAC Business Partner Summit on the Gold Coast in Queensland last Thursday.

Tuesday March 13 - Boulevard on Beaumont Hotel - A strong turnout of interested and receptive attendees enjoyed hearing Reid Purvis of VMware demystify much of the confusion surrounding virtualisation. With 100% of all respondents indicating the seminar was "relevant and useful" and most indicating they wanted more information about the next steps of virtualisation and data storage the first of CSA's "Hot Topic" seminars was a huge success. The seminar was followed by an informal lunch where attendees and CSA staff mingled and talked about virtualisation and where to go from here. CSA's Marketing Manager Grant Belcher, told the audience that further workshops, seminars and luncheon briefings are planned for 2007 and that "CSA was keen to provide seminars on topics which mattered most to CSA's customers". With strong interest in Unified Communications, IP Telephony, Security, Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint 2007 expect topical and engaging seminars to follow... keep an eye on our events page.

A NEWCASTLE company has become the first in regional Australia to achieve certification in Advanced Unified Communications, which is set to make dramatic changes to how business operates. Computer Systems Australia, established at Lambton in 1986, was certified in the new technology from US internet networking giant Cisco Systems yesterday. Unified Communications is the convergence of voice and data using internet protocol with a single digital identity, eliminating the need for separate phone numbers and email addresses.

     Greg Wendt

CSA congratulates Colin Stephenson, Hunter Water for taking out the "Best Communications Solution in the Hunter" Award at the 2006 ATUG Hunter Valley-Housley Awards. Held on the 30th November 2006 the 6th annual ATUG awards recognise expertise and innovation in Hunter telecommunication projects. Hunter Water won Best Communication Solution in the Hunter with a full IP Telephony solution deployed by CSA encompassing their new site at Honeysuckle Drive and a backup/DR site. "Since implementation, the IPtel (Cisco) system has performed very well and the integrator CSA did a great job" said Colin Stephenson.

CSA was recognised at the Cisco Asia Pacific Partners Summit, held in Shanghai in June, as the 2006 Cisco Asia Pacific Business Partner of the Year. The award recognises CSA's increasing success in deploying solutions based on Cisco's market leading technologies including Converged Technologies like Unified Communications and VOIP solutions, Security and general IP switching and routing.