Cisilion’s Global Pursuit

Our Chairman Roger Paul established Cisilion 16 years ago to help businesses simplify their IT deployments. Currently, we provide solutions to a client base in 56 countries across five continents and have big plans for global expansion. Below, Cisilion’s Sales Director Nick Paul discusses the company’s growth plans and future.

Cisilion’s turnover is expected to grow impressively from £36m to £50m in FY16, hence the opening of our New York and Hong Kong offices last year established Cisilion as a global partner amongst our customers. “Our target markets include global organisations within the financial services, legal, insurance and construction sectors. Over the next five years we aim to continue our global expansion and increase revenues significantly,” said Nick Paul. This combined with our recent partnership with EMC to strengthen our hybrid cloud offering and our growing award cabinet – Cisilion has left its mark in the world of resellers.

The rise of the cloud continues to climb steeply and shifts towards the subscription model are well advanced. “Revenues are shifting from tin and boxes to virtualised systems and services,” said Paul. “Businesses no longer want three or five-year big refreshes, therefore VARs and SIs need to adapt their offerings to deliver a much lighter, often hybrid IT infrastructure, which is less dominated by hardware choices with more focus on service and support.”

This trend is redefining the role of many systems integrators and resellers who in the past have been focused on the plumbing of the network, often rooted in the provision of hardware infrastructure and licenses. “While this won’t go away any time soon, in order to remain competitive SIs need to spend time building service propositions, consultancy services and user adoption practices to help their customers make the transition to cloud,” added Paul.

With an army of highly trained and motivated workers Cisilion is now stepping up the pace of our global growth ambitions. “To achieve our goals it’s important to attract and retain the best talent in the market,” added Paul. “It’s the quality of our people, along with offering the most up-to-date technical solutions that will ensure we keep out-performing the market.”

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