posted 20 Feb 2012 10:57 by Bashrat Din
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To help the increase in adoption of Cloud Computing technologies in the UK Public Sector the UK Government has selected Zumzum as one of the first providers of G-Cloud services for Google Apps to be featured in the planned government “cloud services application store”.
Stockport, March 1, 2011 -- With the UK government committed to purchasing cloud computing services on a pay-as-you-go model, Zumzum is one of the first Cloud Computing service providers to be awarded a Framework Agreement for G-Cloud Services. The expected launch of the governments “cloud services application store” will enable public sector organisations to browse and select commodity services, such as the implementation, migration and training for Google Apps, provided by Zumzum.
"Our approach of offering fixed price, fixed scope services is perfectly suited to the pay-as-you-go model behind the G-Cloud it services concepts.” said Bashrat Din, Managing Director of Zumzum Limited. "We are all about making it easy and risk free for organisations to adopt Google Apps and this program is an excellent initiative for the public sector to join the millions of companies that already trust their email and collaboration services to Google”.
“We have become the number 1 reviewed UK service provider in the Google Apps Marketplace and we will strive to achieve the same milestone in the government’s cloud services application store” continued Bashrat. “when I buy anything from Amazon or eBay, I always read the reviews from previous customers to learn about the service I can expect from a vendor, so it’s absolutely brilliant that businesses can now do the same, when evaluating services from IT vendors”
In the same way that a consumers are shopping the Apple app store, public sector departments will be able to find, read reviews and engage with service providers to assist in the deployment of cloud based applications. Just like the best app stores, users will be able to post comments and reviews on service providers to help other buyers evaluate the offers. |
posted 15 Feb 2012 13:33 by Bashrat Din
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It is always a pleasure to be invited to participate in a beta program and particularly satisfying when you're amongst the first in the world to qualify for a certification. Even more rewarding is being recognised as a subject matter expert by being invited to be part of the handful of professionals, that contributed to the thought process that set the passing score for the certification exam.
So, I am particularly excited to announce passing this certification and being part of an elite group of professionals who are the first in the world to attain the certification. I would like to thank the Google Enterprise team for allowing me to participate in the process of selecting the exam questions and contribute to setting the passing score for this exam.
Google strives to develop and improve it's channel to support the adoption of Google Apps for Business so launching a new Google Apps Certified Sales Specialist program is a natural evolution of the Google Apps Authorised Reseller Program. The Google apps Certified Sales Specialist exam certifies sales professionals who demonstrate the skill and knowledge required to sell Google Apps for Business.
We strive to maintain our expertise and focus in Google Apps to effectively serve our customers who wish to adopt Google Apps. This additional certification solidifies our postion as subject matter experts for selling and deploying Google Apps for Business. It's always been my belief that any sales professional worth his salt values product knowledge and applying that product knowledge to serve customers.
We are looking forward to extending our leadership position as one of the premier Google Apps Authorised Resellers in the UK.
Bashrat Din Managing Director
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posted 5 Feb 2012 10:42 by Bashrat Din
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Please join us in welcoming our latest team member Paul Daly. Clearly passionate about IT with over 10 years of IT experience, Paul is going to be a real asset to our team. With experience in wide an varied industries, such as manufacturing, security, printing and yes, Rocket Science, Paul is ideally placed to helo our customers get the best out of Cloud Computing.
Having designed, developed, implemented and managed systems for many a business, Paul is more than aware of the costs and complexities of running in house systems. Whether it be windows desktops, servers, networking, remote access or manufacturing applications, Paul has taken in all in his stride.
Now smitten with Cloud Computing, Paul will be applying his talent and expertise to helping our customers transition to Cloud Computing and operate effectively in this new paradigm.
Good luck in your new role!
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posted 24 Jan 2012 05:06 by Bashrat Din
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Since launching in the Google Apps Marketplace Zumzum has received more customer reviews than any other UK Google Authorised Apps Reseller. Today we reached a new milestone of reaching 100 Customer Reviews posted on our profile, which is nearly twice as many as our nearest competitor. It's a proud moment for us as we are the FIRST uk Google Apps Authorised Reseller to reach this milestone.
This all goes to demonstrate our standing as one of the leading Google Apps SMB Resellers in the UK and our commitment to customer satisfaction. The Google Apps Marketplace is the go-to destination for Google Apps users looking for products and services to deploy, migrate and manage their transition to Google Apps.
Thank you to every single customer and contact that invested the time in writing a review, we really appreciate your time and custome.
The Zumzum Team. |
posted 1 Jan 2012 03:52 by Bashrat Din
Thank you to all our staff, customers, suppliers and partners for making 2011 such a great year. We wish you all the best of health, wealth and prosperity for 2012. Hope you have a huge amount of success and fun in 2012.
The Zumzum Team. |
posted 29 Dec 2011 14:33 by Bashrat Din
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updated 29 Dec 2011 14:36
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IT Trainee Tele-Marketing Executive/Tele-Sales Executive
Job Responsibilities:
As a Trainee Tele-marketing Executive/Tele-Sales Executive you will be:
- You will be calling both small and medium size corporate businesses
- Contacting IT managers, IT Directors and Finance Directors to probe about their existing IT systems
- Qualifying leads on behalf of our sales team and when appropriate, appointment setting with qualified decision makers
- Calling database lists to invite prospects to seminars/webinars
- Following-up mailshots and email blasts to generate inquiries and qualified leads or appointments.
- Logging calls, emails and tasks on the internal CRM/Customer database
- Making up to a 100 calls/day, targeting to get through to 25 actual decision makers, qualifying at least 2 leads everyday and setting appointments when relevant
Preferred Skills:
This role requires no experience but the perfect candidate for the role of Trainee Tele-Marketing/Tele-Sales Executive will have:
- Previous experience of tele-sales or tele-marketing or market research sales would be advantageous, but is not essential
- Previous experience of working within B2B tele-marketing, tele-sales or market research using a database system, but not essential
- An interest or understanding of general IT terminology i.e email, collaboration, hardware, software, servers, etc
Personal Attributes:
* An excellent attitude and a desire to be successful
* An excellent telephone manner, great conversational skills and a professional manner
* A self-motivated, resilient and persistent approach
* Ability to work alone or as part of a team
* Must have the ability to question and listen actively and to hold a credible conversation with contacts at senior level
How we shall help you:
You will get full on the job training and an investment of time and effort to make you successful including:
- Full product training on “Cloud-Computing” Solutions
- Cold-calling training
- Tele-marketing/tele-sales training
- Sales Certification
- Career progression into IT software sales
Hours - Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm in Stockport with a professional & fun team environment
Please email your CV to hr@zumzum.biz for an immediate interview |
posted 14 Nov 2011 05:54 by Bashrat Din
Job Description: Google Apps Migration Engineer with MS Exchange Experience This position is for a Microsoft Exchange Engineer who is interested helping organisations transition away from MS Exchange and onto Google Apps. You will be expected to lead Google Apps deployments and data migrations after sufficient on-the-job training from Google and our staff. You will be asked to assist our sales staff in delivering solutions around companies moving from MS Exchange to Google Apps. You will be involved in the full customer life-cycle from pre-sales inquiries, implementation, training and post sales support. Desired Skills & Experience- Networking (DNS, Firewalls, VPN, etc)
- Knows how to administrator/maintain MS Exchange 2003/2007 in a production environment
- Active Directory or other LDAP systems
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 (nice to have, but not required)
- Strong communication and troubleshooting skills
- Ideal candidate works well with teams and is a self starter
- Ideal candidate should be familiar with Microsoft Outlook and other email clients
- Ideal candidate should be familiar with Gmail and Google’s related products
- BSc in IT related degree preferred (not essential)
- 3+ years related experience
Please send your CV to hr@zumzum.biz or call 087 080 33133 and ask for the Hiring Manager
We look forward to hearing from you.
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posted 2 Nov 2011 11:56 by Bashrat Din
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updated 2 Nov 2011 11:57
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If you missed our series of joint webinars with Google Apps, you can catch with this video on our YouTube Channel.
The webinar outlines Google's Vision for the Enterprise, an overview of Google Apps and a demo of the main features in Google Apps. After a short Q & A at the end, some advice is offered around how to setup a small pilot of Google Apps.
enjoy the video and let us know your feedback.
Webinar: "How Do I Get Started With Google Apps?" |
posted 18 Sep 2011 08:26 by Bashrat Din
Congratulations to Peter Wightman who recently passed the Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist exam. This helps Zumzum expand our team of certified deployment specialists and continue to execute on our plans to be the leading Google Apps Reseller in the UK.
Pete is Google Apps Certified Deployment specialist number 361, so this group of specialist remains a very limited and elite list of certified specialists. Yes, that's correct, there are no more than around 361'ish Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialists in the world. Pete should be very proud to be in this elite group of technical experts.
We expect our customers to benefit from this expanded team of specialist to help in deploying and managing Google Apps.
Once again, well done Pete!
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posted 30 Aug 2011 07:03 by Bashrat Din
Google Docs has been growing in stature with is, particularly as it is releasing features on a regular basis. One quite important feature request has been the ability to complete a mail merge with Google Docs. In the past, this has been the realm of power users and Microsoft Office, however, not any longer.
By combining the power of Google Apps Script and Google Docs your able to easily merge variable data into your Google Document to personalise your letters or content. What's more, by using some extra features of Google Docs and Gmail, your able to email out that content to list of recipients.
Pete in our office decided he wanted to demonstrate a very simple mail merge capability to illustrate what can be achieved with Google Apps Script. We are sure you will agree that this short video demonstrates how powerful Google Docs can be, if used in the right way.
Let us know if you have any other features or capabilities you would like to see in Google Apps and we will try and put together other example videos that you may find useful.
enjoy!
Google Apps Mail Merge With Google Docs |
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