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The recent expansion marks CCSS s ongoing confidence in the European server softwaremarket. Industry Analyst IDC agrees the German server market continues to experiencehealthy trends in 2Q07 with IBM, the leading vendor, enjoying a 30% market share ofthe total unit shipments which are close to 89,000 according to their GermanQuarterly Server Tracker.
Bonn based CCSS in Germany is already the preferred System i monitoring solutionprovider of leading national and internationally recognised brands such as tea,cereal and health product manufacturing giant, OTG and the globally ubiquitousMcDonald s. As part of their strategy for the two regions, CCSS will focus onvertical markets such as pharmaceutical, finance and manufacturing where they have acompelling global client list already.
Between them, Switzerland and Germany already boast eight of the world s leadingpharmaceutical companies, many hundreds of prominent financial institutions and aformidable manufacturing industry. The IBM System i is especially popular for theseindustries as the platform is amongst the most robust, secure and reliable availabletoday.
Managing Director for CCSS, Ray Wright, says the European expansion is the latest ina series of strategic moves that the company has undertaken in the past 18 months, Last year was significant for us in relocating some of our senior members of stafffrom the UK to the US. Coupled with this, we launched CCSS Asia in the Philippinesto more directly serve System i customers in the AsiaPacific region. Now, byincreasing our sales presence in Europe we can offer direct global sales coveragewith more dedicated resources for our growing customer base.
For more information about CCSS visit: www.ccssltd.com
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About CCSS
CCSS develops, supports and markets IBM System i performance monitoring andreporting, message management and remote management solutions. An Advanced IBMBusiness Partner, CCSS develops powerful solutions to support some of the world smost demanding System i environments across many industries including insurance,banking, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. All CCSS solutions are IBM ServerProven.
Existing customers that rely on CCSS s feature-rich solutions include leadingorganisations such as Volvo, Mattel, Newell-Rubbermaid, The Royal Bank of Scotland,Siemens Medical, RWE npower and Waterstone s.
CCSS is headquartered in Gillingham, Kent, UK with key regional headquarters inRaleigh, North Carolina, USA; Bonn, Germany and Makati City, Philippines togetherwith a global agent network spanning Portugal, Brazil, the Netherlands, Switzerlandand Sweden.
