- Insight Enterprises
Insight Enterprises, Inc. (nasdaq|NSIT) is a
Fortune 500 company that provides IT products and services in the U.S., Canada, and the UK. The company was co-founded byEric Crown andTim Crown in 1988 and was incorporated in 1991 inDelaware . One of its subsidiaries, Direct Alliance, providesbusiness process outsourcing . In 1996, Insight assumed the naming rights for theInsight Bowl . In 2002, it bought Comark, thus enabling it to become a reseller of high-endCisco Systems equipment.In June 2006, Insight announced its sale of Direct Alliance Corporation. Shortly after, Insight acquired Software Spectrum, an enterprise-level Software Reseller. This moved Insight from a 3-country organisation (Canada, UK, USA) to an organisation with offices in 20 countries across the globe.
Their expansion in Europe was mainly due to their purchase of
Choice Peripherals (Worksop Nottingham England) in 1997 followed by the purchase ofF9 andPlusnet , all founded byPaul Cusack the founder ofebuyer , and then followed by Insight's purchase of Action.Buying Action was inevitable given the fact that every salesperson at Insight UK had a copy of the Action catalogue for reference as customers used to quote the Action catalogue page number.
Following the purchase of Choice Peripherals, Insight was left with the mess of customers who had been mis-sold goods, computers without legal licences and a bonus structure that favoured the dodgy. Insight quickly put an end to the cowboy dealings they had purchased and turned the company round to a successful operation.
The UK operation is very successful and a major employer in Sheffield, Manchester and Uxbridge today.
The purchase of Calence in 2008 greatly expanded the operations of Insight in the
Cisco systems segment of their business.They were formerly known as insight.com, and are the title sponsors of the
Insight Bowl .Sources
* [http://money.cnn.com/quote/snapshot/snapshot.html?symb=NSIT CNN Money snapshot]
* [http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/17_3/datastream/18181-1.html Announcement of purchase of Comark]External links
* [http://www.insight.com/ Insight Enterprises]
* [http://www.directalliance.com/ Direct Alliance]
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