Friday, July 1, 2011

Signal Alliance Nigeria partners Microsoft to deliver SharePoint 2010 workshops

Leading enterprise systems integrators Signal Alliance in partnership with Microsoft Nigeria has just concluded a series of workshops titled “Business Productivity at its Best” based on the new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform.

The special workshops programme, held at the Microsoft Nigeria Head office at Ikoyi, focused on the advantages of implementing and using SharePoint 2010 platform as a key tool for business productivity and growth.

The company’s Head of Technology Support, Onoh Okwara said that Signal Alliance aims to sensitize customers on the company’s competency in delivering the highest level of specialization for design, implementation and support of the latest Microsoft SharePoint platform.

“As SharePoint Gold Partner our domain knowledge goes beyond understanding the technology we deploy but understanding how to use technology to leverage on the business of our clients to achieve maximum value and output”.

The programme, the company says, was organized to provide customers already on the SharePoint platform, the improved features and capabilities of the new version of SharePoint in areas like Enterprise Content Management, Workplace productivity, Enterprise Search and Enterprise document management. Customers that came for the seminar cut across industry segments including banking, insurance, oil and gas and telecoms.

He called on IT-reliant organizations in Nigerian to take advantage of the Microsoft Sharepoint platform to enhance workplace productivity and increase sales and services and concluded by stating that Signal Alliance remains focused on its leadership role as one of the leading solutions experts in and out of the country.

Speaking further, he explained that as Microsoft Gold Partner, Signal Alliance has further built a team of qualified professionals to offer its customers excellent delivery in SharePoint solutions such as, Content management, Document management, Business intelligence and Enterprise search. The Microsoft SharePoint platform, according to Okwara, is more strategic in the delivery of IT workplace productivity.

Microsoft and Signal Alliance have in the past worked together on such programs to broaden customer knowledge in other Microsoft solutions including Unified Communication, Software Asset management for Enterprise customers both in the private and public sector.

According to Kelechi Nwosu, Partner Business Manager for Microsoft Anglophone West Africa “Microsoft and its partners will continue to deliver world class services to our valued customers to help them realize their full business potential. He maintained that there is no substitute to excellent delivery and encouraged Signal Alliance to continue to provide options by delighting our customers and making them derive full value for their investment in Microsoft platform. Also this is a clear testimony to the fact that our local partners have stepped up in building competency and capacity necessary to deliver cutting leading edge solutions from Microsoft. In the end, customers, partners and Microsoft all benefit “

In a reaction to the event, attendees’ feedback was very positive. One of the participants, Michael Madukairo from BUA Group, was happy with the event. His words: “Very impressive. I highly appreciate this demonstration and wish Signal Alliance & Microsoft will organize more of it.”

Signal Alliance has achieved highest level of specialization for the design, implementation and support of The Microsoft Share-point Platform and is viewed as the industry leader in Portals Management and Enterprise Content Management.

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