STS Awarded Cisco Commercial Partner of the Year

Online, April 21, 2014 (Newswire.com) - STS International, Inc., a global leader in IT consulting, network solutions, collaboration centers and service management, today announced it has earned an award as Belgium Commercial Partner Of the Year. STS International, NV/SA, based in Brussels, was recognized as the Cisco partner who performed the best-in-class practices, and for their outstanding achievement, commitment and presence within all levels of the commercial market in Belgium. Over the past year, STS expanded their dedicated commercial market team to improve execution and increase operations in response to effective sales and high demand for advanced Cisco solutions. The additional investment by STS enabled the team to rapidly grow their Belgium business.

In addition to being a Cisco Silver Partner, STS continues their investment in and commitment to Cisco, which includes a highly certified team delivering integrated, innovative and customized Cisco networking, security and customer engagement center solutions to STS customers. The STS International NV/SA team holds Cisco certifications and specialties in Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization, Advanced Routing Specialization, Advanced Security and ATP for the Identity Services Engine. The fast growth of the STS Belgium General Market business clearly demonstrates the team's dedication and commitment to meet the technology demands of their customers. The combination of advanced Cisco solutions and the highly skilled and certified STS team generates the momentum that will dramatically expand Cisco opportunities and solutions in Europe.

STS has been a significant business partner to Cisco for almost 20 years, since 1995, and has been active in the Belgium market since late 2010. The company is committed to helping STS customers succeed in their IT projects by providing expert engineers, project managers, technicians and developers whenever and wherever our customers need us. In addition to Belgium, STS operates operations centers in 14 countries around the world and continues to invest in people and facilities to greatly expand the delivery of our technical capabilities to the most demanding businesses in the world. For one example, STS recently acquired Cameo Solutions in a merger that will enhance the already significant capabilities of the STS team to deliver advanced Cisco UCCX/UCCE and HCS Cloud collaboration center solutions and services worldwide. The combined companies function as a single global delivery platform for advanced Cisco Unified Communication solutions. This full range of solutions and services from STS and Cameo will provide clients and customers the right solution today, while positioning those customers for cost-effective growth into the future.

Hugo Detremmerie, Head of Partner Organization and Commercial Market of Worldwide Partner Organization at Cisco delivered the award to Bart Van Camp, STS General Manager in Belgium. Mr. Detremmerie congratulated the STS Belgium team during the recent Cisco BELUX sales meeting.

"STS International, Inc. is the partner in the region who quickly grew their IT services business with a dedicated team to focus on the Belgian commercial market together with Cisco," said Mr. Van Camp. STS started up in 2010 and over the following 27 months successfully strengthened our team and expanded our operations to rapidly grow Cisco business solutions in Europe. We are very proud that STS in Belgium is being recognized as the single best practices provider in the BeLux region."

Kish Jha, Global CEO of STS International, Inc., in recognition of the award said, "STS is honored to be recognized by Cisco as the Commercial Partner of the year. Our dedicated STS Belgium Commercial Market team launched operations and quickly grew our year-to-year Cisco business by +62%." Mr. Jha added, "This is a tremendous achievement that validates the STS commitment to offer a full range of solutions and services in Belgium and the broader European market. We have built the expertise to ensure the success of our clients and their projects. Along with Mr. Detremmerie, my congratulations go out to Bart Van Camp and the whole STS Belgium team!"

About STS International, Inc.
STS International, Inc. was founded in 1993 to provide information technology consultancy, systems integration, managed services and field technical support services. Recognized in 2013 as one of the
INC 5000 fastest growing companies, STS offers the full life cycle of IT services globally and provides technology solutions from technology industry leaders such as Cisco Systems and many others. In over 21 years in the industry STS has grown in capabilities and scope of operations to now deliver over 900 complex technology projects per month in the United States and 86 countries worldwide. STS is a Cisco value added reseller in Europe, Australia, the United States, and coming soon, in India. STS holds a number of certifications from Cisco in various solution specialties for Unified Communications and over 65% of our technical staff hold advanced certifications. To discover more about STS International, Inc. and our capabilities in information technology products, solutions and services navigate to www.stsii.com.

About Cameo Solutions, Inc.
Cameo Solutions, Inc. delivers advanced collaboration and customer care solutions for mid-size to large customers since 2006. Cameo brings to the STS combined team strong technical experience and deep customer engagement center integration experience. Cameo holds the Cisco Authorized Technology Partner (ATP) for Unified Contact Center Enterprise and Customer Voice Portal. In addition, Cameo has recently become certified as a (CMSP) Master Cloud and Managed Services Provider offering both the Cisco (HCS) Hosted Collaboration Solutions and the Cisco (HCS CC) Hosted Collaboration Solutions Contact Center services. Learn more about Cameo Solutions, Inc. and how businesses can leverage the latest technology to manage their own customer experience solutions at www.CameoSolutions.com.

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