Northgate Managed Services Appointed Education Technology Distributor for Panasonic
12 January 2010
Panasonic Appoints Northgate Managed Services as Education Technology Solutions Provider. London Olympia, 13th JanuaryBETT 2010 –today, on the same day Panasonic unveiled a ‘classroom of the future’ featuring leading edge education technology that improves audio visual communication in a secure classroom environment, the global technology leader also announced Northgate Managed Services as a key distribution partner for its interactive whiteboards called ‘Panaboard’ and a wider range of products and solutions for delivery into the Education marketplace.
Northgate Managed services, known for its work with leading technology organisations such as Microsoft, Compuware, VMWare, Symantec, Cisco, Citrix, Commvault, Apple, Sun, HP and DELL will work in close partnership with Panasonic to assist them to gain a deep understanding of its education customers. This will enable Panasonic technology solutions to be deployed in the transformation of education, delivering greater efficiency and reducing total cost of ownership in the use of technology in education.
Northgate Managed Services who have 1000 staff across UK, England, Scotland and Ireland is a leading provider of ICT services and solutions to the education sector and through its C2k partnership in Northern Ireland has supported 1200 schools for over 7 years. In England, within the Building Schools for the Future programme, Northgate Managed Services is working with Local Authorities to support the transformation of teaching using ICT equipment in Kent, Bristol, Leicester City and Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton.
“We are delighted to have been chosen as a distribution partner by Panasonic. Panasonicoffers the education market a very cost-competitive and versatile portfolio of solutions”, says David Hyland, Managing Director (Education), Northgate Managed Services.
Peter Dempsey, Northgate Managed Service’s Account Manager at Panasonic added; “as a key Panasonic partner, Northgate was selected because of their special expertise and relationships within the education sector. The C2k partnership particularly gives Northgate extensive knowledge and experience useful to help deliver precisely the technology solutions required for the education market”.
