Success Story: CDW
“They treat us like a full partner,” says Phil LaForge, CDW Berbee’s Director of Hosting and Managed Services. When TEAM Companies and CDW Berbee formed a relationship in 2006, it was based upon the plan/design/build strategy that TEAM has found successful. Business collaborators like Phil demonstrate the seamlessness and commitment of our model at TEAM. He said it best of his experience, “TEAM managers possess high integrity. They do what they say they will do and they work business transparently.”
“The beauty of the collaboration with CDW Berbee and TEAM is that we both benefit, and our customer can come to one place and find every service they need” says Mark Kittrell, TEAM Companies.
Expert Relationships
“They (TEAM) focus on design and construction. We focus on delivering high-quality, managed hosting services to our customers,” says LaForge. TEAM and CDW Berbee define the ideal technology relationship. “TEAM was able to provide us with the expertise and understanding of how to create the data center we envisioned. They helped us put our ideas into practice,” says LaForge.
TEAM’s relationship experience allowed the collaboration to take off from the beginning. “In fact, our end product was better because we worked together,” says Kittrell. The expertise of two companies came together to produce the best facility possible.
Quality Relationships
“TEAM builds high-quality data centers, and we wanted to be a part of that commitment to excellence,” says LaForge. And it’s not just the building that TEAM focuses its energy on.“ Not only is TEAM Companies dedicated to the plan/design/build aspect of data centers, its staff consists of individuals who have spent much of their career managing them.
TEAM has a passion for staying highly involved in the data center and hosting industries to remain up-to-date and ahead of the latest trends.
Management Relationships
TEAM Companies started its business in data center management. Today, it’s still the foundation of the TEAM approach. “Team understands facilities management and that’s one of the reasons we felt that they were the best collaborators for this project,” says LaForge.
“We use our management expertise to guide every data center project we do,” says Kittrell. “Without our data center knowledge, TEAM would not be successful in creating data center facilities. TEAM looks at every angle in a data center, and we will specially design one to meet your needs.
