Westcon Africa, a leading value added distributor of advanced technologies, data centre technologies, enterprise mobility, power and printing solutions,  is soon to add channel enablement services to their products and service portfolio. The Group Chief Executive Officer, William Oduol, told CIO East Africa that Westcon was at the stage of assembling a virtual team and consultants.

The team would consist  of professionals in various areas including telepresence, Unified Computing Services (UCS) , Network Deployment and Installation and  Data centre design and building 
Oduol said the move would help professionals acquire skills from their clients while at the same time enabling their clients to easily source for professionals and consultants when required.

"Tier 2 resellers will now be able to effectively compete with Tier 1 resellers" , said Oduol.

The team will be sourced from Westcon Group’s other subsidiaries, namely, Westcon India, Westcon SA, Westcon Europe and their other Consulting and system integration firms, Analysis Mason, Intact and Logicalis.