{"id":33819,"date":"2020-05-26T20:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2020\/05\/26\/datacentrix-advances-lenovo-certification-with-new-accreditation\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T08:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T07:12:46","slug":"datacentrix-advances-lenovo-certification-with-new-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2020\/05\/26\/datacentrix-advances-lenovo-certification-with-new-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Datacentrix advances Lenovo certification with new accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Datacentrix, a high performing and secure ICT solutions provider, has extended its partnership with hardware technology company, Lenovo, adding the title of Authorised Service Partner (ASP) to its existing Tier 1 Platinum Partner certifications for Lenovo\u2019s PC Group (PCG) and Datacentre Group (DCG). The company is now one of only two South African Tier 1 Platinum Partners to also be named as an ASP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDatacentrix has enjoyed a close working relationship with Lenovo in South Africa for many years, and it was a natural next step for us to add the ASP certification to our existing qualifications,\u201d explained Shawn Marx, Datacentrix Business Unit Manager for Converged Solutions. \u201cThe new accreditation allows us to deepen client interactions, providing local businesses with an end-to-end Lenovo offering \u2013 from presales right through to break\/fix services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Datacentrix has used the lockdown period constructively to bolster its skills base, completing more than 630 vendor-related certifications since the end of March to mid-May, including the Lenovo ASP accreditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDatacentrix\u2019s excellent service delivery is already in place and by using this time to upskill within lockdown, we have completed the requisite training to position ourselves as trusted advisors and create Lenovo customers for life,\u201d Marx added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datacentrix, a high performing and secure ICT solutions provider, has extended its partnership with hardware technology company, Lenovo, adding the title of Authorised Service Partner (ASP) to its existing Tier 1 Platinum Partner certifications for Lenovo\u2019s PC Group (PCG) and Datacentre Group (DCG). The company is now one of only two South African Tier 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":33830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,630,260,13,262],"tags":[8827,13094,1621,13095],"class_list":["post-33819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-centres","category-hardware","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-asp","tag-authorised-service-partner","tag-lenovo","tag-shawn-marx"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33836,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819\/revisions\/33836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}