HARDWARE / SOFTWARE
ACQUISITION SUPPORT
With our extensive, multi-vendor expertise, ShortestPathFirst provides the full spectrum of Hardware and Software Acquisition Life Cycle Support, including assisting customers in defining the initial requirements, identifying budgetary constraints, and simplifying the entire process through contract award and closeout.
Our team is knowledgeable across a wide variety of vendors; we specialize in best-of-breed technology, understand the industry trends, and we can help navigate the multitude of options to ensure you get the right solution, on-time and within budget.
From acquisition strategy planning, training, source selection support, professional services and integration, ShortestPathFirst can help simplify hardware and software acquisition and ensure your projects are hugely successful within budgetary constraints.
Professional
Services
ShortestPathFirst offers a range of professional services around best-of-breed products with a focus on providing our clients with unrivaled expertise and delivering results while at the same time ensuring that projects fall within a customer’s budget.
Our Professional Services Engineering team works as an extension of your team, and can assist with projects of any size and scope. Whether it’s helping to define the overall architectural design, to technology implementation, to simply augmenting staff for smaller one-off projects, we have the team and the ability to solve your needs.
ShortestPathFirst can ensure that your small projects don’t become big headaches and that your large, infrastructure-wide efforts are seamlessly integrated into daily operations. The secret is in truly understanding your existing network environment and your technical needs- both for today and tomorrow’s requirements.
Training &
Education Services
ShortestPathFirst strives to provide not only expertise when it comes to acquiring new technology and integrating it into your network environment, but also training customers on how to effectively utilize those technologies, with a focus on best-practices and industry standards.
ShortestPathFirst offers free training around many of our strategic partners’ offerings, such as Juniper and Palo Alto, and has the ability to do on-site or virtual training around these technologies. We have Juniper Networks Certified Instructors (JNCI) and Palo Alto Networks Certified Engineers (PCNSE) and Consultants (PCNSC) and can work with your team to determine a customized curriculum meeting your needs.