Park Place acquires Third Party Maintenance provider Custom Hardware Engineering & 咨询公司.

柏居科技 announced it has acquired Custom Hardware Engineering & 咨询公司. (CHE), a Missouri-based third party maintenance provider. 柏居科技, the globally preferred partner for third party management of IT data center equipment since 1991, will acquire all of CHE’s business, enabling 柏居科技 to further expand its operational depth.

柏居科技 will leverage CHE’s specialty in helping companies get better data center ROI from their multi-platform, 企业系统. 自1997年以来, CHE has provided large-class enterprise clients with independent, multi-vendor third party maintenance support services for disk and tape storage, 网络, mainframes and mid-range server hardware equipment located in data centers throughout the United States. CHE is particularly strong in the government vertical and has deep Enterprise 存储 and Mainframe skills which complement 柏居科技’ breadth of knowledge.

As a result of the acquisition, CHE’s 客户 will receive many benefits including, access to innovative products such as 柏居科技’ ParkView^TM and Entuity Network Analytics. ParkView is a fully automated maintenance service that streamlines the hardware support process and helps data centers boost Uptime. Entuity Network Analytics automates network discovery and uses intuitive workflows that make it easy to identify when there are issues within the customer’s network operations.  客户 will also experience greater support throughout their product life cycle and will have access to Park Place’s global, multilingual 24-hour support centers and a vast, 全球供应链. 柏居科技’ 客户 will benefit from access to more engineers and enhancing technology capabilities as a result of the acquisition.

客户 have 24/7/365 access to Central Park, a portal that allows clients to view all their active Park Place contracts. 在这里, clients can view open/closed tickets; submit a ticket; add equipment; and update, enable or disable technical contacts per location. PPTechMobile is an app that allows full portal functionality, plus barcode scanning and photo submission for submitting tickets.
“通过这次收购, Park Place further strengthens its engineering and parts advantages in the United States,克里斯·亚当斯说, 总裁兼首席执行官, 柏居科技. “We look forward to bringing our award-winning proactive maintenance services and global support to CHE 客户.”

“CHE is very excited about this opportunity for its 客户 and company,大卫·约克说, 总裁兼首席执行官 of Custom Hardware Engineering & 咨询公司.  “The growth and expansion possible from CHE’s innovative technologies coupled with Park Place’s established platforms, will be well received in the industry and beneficial to all parties.”

敏捷的股本, based in New York City provided exclusive investment banking services to CHE on its sale to 柏居科技.  戴夫·卡明斯, 管理合伙人, noted “there’s a fantastic strategic fit between the companies and we are pleased to have facilitated the transaction for the shareholders.”

This is the second acquisition for 柏居科技 in 2020 and its 14^th 自2016年以来. In January 2020, Park Place acquired the network operations center of Cleveland-based IntelliNet.