Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme and the Microsoft Corporation, Redmond/USA, have now agreed on a joint training program for more than 1500 Siemens Nixdorf employees. Participants from all Divisions in the company will complete an extensive training program to become "Microsoft Certified System Engineers" or "Microsoft Certified Solution Developers" and will demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technology on completion of this training. The two companies have already reached several agreements on closer cooperation in the area of "Enterprise Computing". This joint training program was fuelled by the ever increasing demand for expertise in all areas of Microsoft technology, especially in the Windows NT environment. In South Africa, this program was initiated by Siemens Nixdorf two years ago and to date we have trained more than fifty certified MCSE engineers and an additional forty certified MCP engineers. This number is expected to grow this number to approximately two hundred certified MCSE`s. The agreement focuses mainly on the six key areas in which Siemens Nixdorf has been successfully supplying Windows NT services for several years. * IT management: Based on technologies from Microsoft`s SMS product line and Siemens Nixdorf`s Transview, solutions in the areas of security, data backup and software distribution which extend beyond heterogeneous system boundaries are drawn up * Network integration: The key element here is the smooth integration of Windows NT servers into customers` existing IT infrastructures * Migration services: This area focuses on transferring customers` existing applications based on proprietary systems (especially OS/2 and 886x systems) to Windows NT-based client/server solutions as well as ensuring the performance and functionality of new solutions * Clustering: This covers services which concentrate on providing high-availability solutions based on the Siemens Nixdorf Primergy product family and the Microsoft Cluster Server * Business-critical applications: This means providing services to implement business-critical applications based on Windows NT. These services include hardware and software installation, configuration advice, network integration and customer training * Other services: These include planning and installing Microsoft products (e.g. Exchange Server for office automation), performance analyses and performance improvements for NT systems as well as general customer training sessions. As the largest European IT manufacturer, Siemens Nixdorf is one of the leading suppliers of enterprise-wide solutions based on Microsoft systems. Over the last few years, Siemens Nixdorf has managed to increase sales of its product offering (Primergy server family) especially in the Windows NT environment significantly more than its competitors. Current market figures on suppliers of NT servers show Siemens Nixdorf occupying 2nd place in Europe.
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