Computrade Technology Philippines, Inc. (CTP), the local subsidiary of Computrade Technology International (CTI Group) is optimistic on the Philippine market’s growth prospects. The IT company has been appointed business partner of five (5) new information technology (IT) company, namely, MapR, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), F5 Networks, BlueCat and SAS.
This, following CTP’s announcement last year that they are pushing for strategic partnerships to expand their portfolio to focus on the enterprise segment. Computrade will aim to develop Philippine resellers to move up the business value chain and support them towards solutions-selling not just box-selling.
“The new partnerships are a testament of Computrade’s long-term commitment to the Philippines, driven by the market’s growing demand for world-class, best-of-breed IT solutions. Our expanded portfolio now boasts of a complete line that address the needs of the enterprise market,” said Teddy Sumulong, Managing Director of Computrade Philippines.
Market focus
The selection process of CTP in choosing what solution to add to its portfolio is rooted on four (4) main growth areas: Cloud, Mobility, Analytics and Security.
According to analyst firm IDC, IT spending in the Philippines is expected to grow by 10.1 percent in 2015. The survey also revealed that majority of the companies in the Philippines are looking to increase their IT budget and spending, in particular, for technologies that enable organisations to embrace the 3rd platform, which consists of cloud, mobile, big data and social.1
Using this guide, local businesses will have access to solutions from provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop® MapR Technologies; storage and compute systems and software provider Hitachi Data Systems; advanced application delivery provider F5 Networks; IP Address Management, DNS and DHCP solutions provider BlueCat; and business analytics and business intelligence software provider SAS.
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