Insight Enterprises Achieves Cisco Gold Certification in North America

TEMPE, Ariz., May 11, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ:NSIT) announced it has achieved Cisco® Gold Partner Certification. To earn Gold Certification, Insight had to meet rigorous standards set forth by Cisco in networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction.

“Our attainment of the Cisco Gold Certification underscores our commitment to bringing the very best of Cisco technology to our clients in order to help their businesses run smarter,” said Ken Lamneck, president and CEO, Insight Enterprises. “Additionally, with our existing Master’s Certifications in Cloud Builder, Cloud and Managed Services, Collaboration and Security, we remain well positioned to help clients with two critical areas of IT: security and cloud.”

The Cisco Channel Partner Program provides a framework for partners to build the sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills required to deliver Cisco solutions to end customers. Through the program’s specializations and certifications, Cisco recognizes a partner’s expertise in deploying solutions based on Cisco advanced technologies and services. Using a third-party audit process, the program validates a partner’s technology skills, business practices, customer satisfaction, presales and post-sales support capabilities and other critical factors that customers consider when choosing a trusted partner.

As a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, Insight has met the requirements for attaining the broadest range of expertise across multiple technologies by achieving Cisco advanced specializations in the four following areas: enterprise networks architecture, security architecture, collaboration architecture and data center architecture. In addition, Insight has integrated Cisco Hybrid IT, the resale of cloud and managed services, into its offerings and is required to ensure high customer satisfaction in collaboration with Cisco. Cisco Gold Certification provides Insight with access to comprehensive sales, technical, and lifecycle services training and support available from Cisco.

For more information on Insight, visit https://www.insight.com/ or call 1.800.INSIGHT.

About Insight

From business and government organizations to healthcare and educational institutions, Insight empowers clients with Intelligent Technology™ solutions to realize their goals. As a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud and service solutions, our 5,700 teammates provide clients the guidance and expertise needed to select, implement and manage complex technology solutions to drive business outcomes. Through our world-class people, partnerships, services and delivery solutions, we help businesses run smarter. Discover more at insight.com. NSIT-M

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CONTACTS:
CHUCK KING
Insight Enterprises, Inc.
TEL. (480) 409-6390
EMAIL: CHUCK.KING@INSIGHT.COM
ARIEL KOUVARAS
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TEL. (212) 446-1884
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