Insight EMEA Joins Google Apps Reseller Program

Insight EMEA, a division of Insight Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: NSIT), one of the largest global value-added resellers of IT solutions with operations in 15 countries in EMEA, has teamed with Google Enterprise to bring Google Apps online applications and services to Insight’s client base in EMEA.

Insight and Google foresee businesses of all sizes, in every industry, embracing Software as a Service (SaaS) in ever-increasing numbers. The economic, security, reliability, and delivery advantages of SaaS can give companies a real competitive advantage.

Google Apps™ offers simple to use and powerful messaging and collaboration applications for business – including Google Mail™, Google Calendar™, Google Talk™ chat and instant messaging, Google Docs™ document, spreadsheet and presentation sharing and editing, Google Video™ for internal video sharing, and Google Sites™ intranet for knowledge sharing.

As one of the global leaders in SaaS, Google Apps has experienced accelerating adoption with over 3,000 businesses signing up daily and over 1 million companies already using this solution to improve their business with better messaging and collaboration tools.

Stuart Fenton, President, Insight EMEA, said, “Insight is a strong advocate of the SaaS model and we see this as an excellent opportunity to partner with a market leader in this space. Our approach to technology goes beyond mere implementation and instead provides real business guidance on technology adoption and deployment. Insight provides Google Enterprise with expertise in helping clients manage and deploy software across diverse IT environments, from small- and medium-sized clients up to and including the most complex large, global clients. A significant portion of the Global Fortune 500 clients currently look to Insight as their trusted advisor for software today. While this agreement initially covers Europe Middle East and Africa we expect to extend the partnership to North America and Asia Pacific at a later date.”

Adrian Joseph, Managing Director, Google Enterprise EMEA, said, “We recognize that resellers, the trusted advisors and technology consultants to their clients, play a pivotal role in helping those clients get the best out of Google Apps. Given that Insight has one of the broadest customer coverage models of any reseller and a broad portfolio of offerings, they are in a unique position to offer their customers choice and independent advice. I am delighted that we are working with Insight in EMEA.”

About Insight

Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a leading provider of brand-name information technology, hardware, software and services to large enterprises, small- to medium-sized businesses and public sector institutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The Company has more than 4,500 teammates worldwide and generated revenues of over $4.8 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. Insight is ranked number 484 on Fortune magazine’s 2009 ‘Fortune 500’ list.

Google, Google Apps, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Video, Google Talk, Google Sites, and Google Apps Authorized Reseller are trademarks of Google Inc.

Contacts

Insight Enterprises, Inc.
Stuart Fenton, EMEA President
+44 870 704 5250
stuart.fenton {at} uk.insight(.)com
Jet Golia, Commercial Vice President
+44 870 704 5376
jet.golia {at} uk.insight(.)com