Solution Provider Builds
Sophisticated Unified Communications Center in New
Location
Who: Logicalis, Inc.,
an international provider of integrated information and
communications technology (ICT) solutions and services based in
Farmington Hills, Mich., announced today that its recent
acquisition, Netarx, an Auburn Hills, Mich.-based solution provider
purchased by Logicalis in July 2011, has moved its Lansing, Mich.,
office to a new and updated facility in Okemos, Mich.
What: In July
2011,
Logicalis acquired Netarx, an IT professional services firm
offering managed services, data center, collaboration, and
infrastructure design solutions through three Midwest locations –
Auburn Hills and Lansing, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio, as well as an
office in Phoenix, Ariz. With the merger complete, Logicalis
has moved the Lansing-area Netarx employees to a new location in
Okemos, investing heavily in the new facility’s technology
infrastructure. This is the second new office Logicalis
has opened in Michigan
since 2010. Logicalis has also invested heavily in a
specially designed communications and collaboration meeting
facility in the new Okemos location.
Logicalis’ new Collaboration Room in the
Okemos building has fully integrated digital technologies including
high-definition videoconferencing, SMART technology interactive
whiteboards, ceiling-mounted microphones and speakers, digital
switching technology, and a Crestron control system with multiple
user-interface touch panels. Every aspect of the room –
including its size, lighting, acoustics, style of furniture and
control programming – were analyzed and designed to enhance the
collaborative setting for meeting participants both in the room and
in remote locations.
Where:
Logicalis’ new facility is located at 2469
Woodlake Circle, Suite 100, in Okemos, Michigan. There are 25
Logicalis employees working in the new location. While no new
hires are initially planned, the facility was designed with room
for future growth. Today, between its Farmington Hills,
Auburn Hills and new Okemos facilities, Logicalis employs over 300
people in Michigan alone.
Quotes: “Logicalis has
long been a fixture in the Detroit area with its U.S. headquarters
located in Farmington Hills and now with the newly acquired Netarx
with its two Michigan locations in both Auburn Hills and
Okemos. It is the strength of our people that make Logicalis
successful, and we believe that remaining in the same locale for
the long term demonstrates our faith in our employees, our
commitment to our local customers, and the steadfast way that we
approach business in general. We are pleased with the way
Logicalis and Netarx have so seamlessly aligned themselves with one
another, and we’re excited about the future for our combined
organizations.” – Terry Flood, president and CEO of
Logicalis
“This move really represents the full
transformation of Netarx into a Logicalis company. We have a
new location and a bright future as a fully integrated
organization. The Okemos building gives us the opportunity to
create a space that will work to the advantage of our employees as well as our customers, both local and
remote. The investment Logicalis has made in the
state-of-the-art Collaboration Room we have designed for the new
facility will clearly offer us a functional advantage, but it will
also serve as a model, demonstrating the creative ways unified
communications can add value to a company, its people and its
customer relationships.” – Michael Souders, president and
COO of Netarx, a Logicalis company
Media Contacts: Lisa
Dreher, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Logicalis, Inc.,
mailto:lisa.dreher@us.logical.com;
425-201-8111; http://www.us.logicalis.com/
or Karen Franse, Communication Strategy Group for
Logicalis, kfranse@gocsg.com;
866-997-2424, http://www.gocsg.com/
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of
integrated information and communications technology (ICT)
solutions and services founded on a superior breadth of knowledge
and expertise in communications & collaboration, data center,
and cloud computing and managed services.
Logicalis Group employs nearly 2,500 people
worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design,
specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the
needs of over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To
achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with
technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of
over $1 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South
America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of
the leading IT and Communications solution integrators,
specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and
services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec
Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges,
with revenues of approximately $5 billion.
For more information, visit http://www.us.logicalis.com/
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