The acquisition has been completed by Southfield, Michigan-based TechTeam’s Belgium subsidiary, and adds 300 employees to the operations, which will now be called TechTeam ANE NV/SA.
ANE’s activities include network design, installation, connectivity, security, storage, and systems and application integration. The company is a Cisco Partner, Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider, Hewlett-Packard Solutions Partner, IBM Business Partner, Citrix Silver Partner, Novell Business Expert, Computer Associates Enterprise Silver Solution Partner, Lotus Advanced Business Partner, Symantec Enterprise Partner, Belgacom Data Partner, and UUNET value-added reseller.
Advanced Network Engineering will provide TechTeam with an important and immediate entree to the commercial systems integration market…The addition of ANE to TechTeam will be immediately accretive to TechTeam’s earnings in 2004 and help us continue to expand our market share and revenue growth from our core business groups, said Christoph Neut, TechTeam Global’s vice president of sales and marketing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and the managing director of the Belgian operations.
Peter De Gendt, managing director of ANE said TechTeam Global’s financial clout will enable ANE to invest in services such as remote monitoring, VoIP technology, and network security.
