M-IT Services (Pty) Ltd, a black empowerment services company, is strengthening its focus on enterprise services in the South African IT market space by training additional engineers to bolster its services company. M-IT is an accredited HP and Compaq service provider.
During the last three months, M-IT has trained 20 additional engineers for Compaq desktop, servers and Alpha equipment and has seen over 15 engineers go through the HP certification on hardcopy and Netservers.
Lucky Khumalo, COO of M-IT, attributes this drive to a simple rule: "Ensure that you have the right skills and the market will recognise this.
"M-IT`s drive has been to grow our skills through extensive training via both local and international qualifications and also by getting the right skill sets in the market to join the ever increasing M-IT skill sets.
"When we started we had a team of seven people with one office but now we are nationwide with seven offices strategically around the country to cover 80% to 90% of our customers` business needs. We have just over 50 people based in these offices and the bulk of these skills are technical skills that are multi-skilled to ensure that we meet and exceed our customers` expectations."
M-IT boasts about its high concentration of qualified skills. Out of nearly 30 engineers, 20 are Compaq ACTs and seven are Compaq ASEs, ASE PROs, and Alpha engineers. Of those, over 12 are HP Certified engineers, Microsoft professionals and even high-end storage certified skill sets. Khumalo says M-IT spent over half a million rand just on training in its first year of operation.
The company has set an even bigger budget for the next financial year since the focus is not only to increase the level of internal qualifications but to also start driving towards being a full solutions partner. Skills sets will be improved on Project Management, Windows 2000, Unix (Linux, SCO, Tru64 and HP Unix) and Storage architecture, design, implementation and support.
To ensure that M-IT is a world-class services company, it is also pursuing ITL and ISO certification.
Khumalo concludes: "M-IT`s aim is to be a true multi-vendor solutions company and the only way we can do this is through world-class methodologies and sought-after skills."
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