Integration Services

Shyft Global Services helps you deliver custom-tailored solutions — everything from end-point devices to complex rack-mounted systems designed specifically for your customers.

Increase Profitability With Integration Services

Customers expect to receive solutions that are plug-in ready so they can get into production quickly, which means that delivering products completely configured, customized and tested is paramount. With facilities and trained specialists located strategically around the world, Shyft can help your customers realize the value from their technology purchases faster.

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Scalability

Scale your business quickly with our worldwide resources.

time to market

Time to Market

Improve cash flow by getting your products to market faster.

increased capacity

Increased Capacity

Free up space by taking advantage of our strategically located facilities.

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Fixed to Variable Costs

Change up fixed costs to variable costs and release capital for investment.

reduce complexity

Reduced Complexity

Support each product lifecycle stage, simplifying your operations.

Shyft's Integration Services Capabilities

Extend your engineering support, improve your time to market and instantly scale your production capacity with our resources. Our teams excel in areas where complexity is high — from simple deployment validation to developing converged infrastructures to the truly complex world of product design. Taking a whole lifecycle view, our engineers deliver on the form, fit and function of all the work, including testing, troubleshooting, repairing and field deployment.

Product Design

The best solution is only as good as its design. Our certified engineers take your product concept and bring it to life within a single location.

  • Architect solution
  • First article build


Complex Converged Assembly

Building the full picture goes beyond integration services. Our technical experts integrate, configure and customize OEM technologies using a globally standardized production methodology to make sure that every build is constructed to the right specifications every time.

  • Design validation
  • Build to order (BTO) — blades, chassis and servers
  • Rack assembly
  • Routers, switches and wireless integration
  • Load custom imaging, applications and OS
  • Cable management
  • Customization
  • Spare parts management
  • Forward logistics
Endpoint Device Configuration

For user devices that attach to the network, Shyft can configure technologies in high quantities to exact specifications that arrive plug-in ready.

  • BIOS and firmware updates
  • Hardware and software installation
  • Validation testing
  • Imaging
  • Device enrollment
  • Complex wireless network prep
  • Customization
  • Customer-specific media duplication
Customization Options

The right final touch can make all the difference. Put the finishing touches on any technology solution with Shyft’s customization services.

  • Laser etching/marking
  • Asset tagging/serialization
  • Labels and tags
    • UID
    • RFID
    • Shipping
  • Finish options
  • Packaging
  • Overpacking
  • Kitting and accessory management
Project Management
Bring together complex technologies with customized support from Shyft’s multi-platform, technically certified engineering experts. A single point of contact will manage your most complex projects every step of the way.
  • Pre-engineering support
  • ECR analysis and action plans
  • SLA management and targeting
  • Complex order management
  • Training
  • Project reporting
  • Invoicing
  • Forecasting
Test Environment and Prototyping
Before customers invest in the technology, let them test it either in our demo centers or in their own ecosystem to make sure it’s the right fit. Our facilities host OEM technology and training to ensure customers are confident in their purchase.
  • Proof of concept (POC)
  • Demo locations
  • Hosted customer-specific VM
  • Product training

Hardware Integration

Companies that specialize in software alone carry a higher profit margin than companies focused on both software and hardware, because the latter results in financial drag. Let us manage your hardware integrations, configuration and customization so you can focus on sustaining software profitability.

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Customer Experience
Integration Customer Experience

Quick Turnaround

From the quality of technology produced to the efficiencies stacked behind it, we keep to our standard three- to five-day SLA turnaround for complex solutions so your customers receive their equipment and product sooner.

Build to Order

Reduce lead time and increase customer satisfaction with our hassle-free pre-racked, pre-integrated, advanced solutions. When you build to order, your inventory lives in our facilities, and we help you accelerate processing, building and delivery times with our world-class logistics solutions.

Vendor-Authorized Training

Bridge the technology training gap with our training resources. Our expert consultants can become an extension of your technical training program by instructing your customers’ engineers on a specific, complex build across multi-vendor platforms. We’ll work with you to develop an education solution completely tailored to fit your needs.

Customization

Customers expect plug-and-play solutions—and the true value of the systems you sell is fully realized only with the right peripherals, accessories and when other hardware and software is integrated. Shyft can customize any project to meet the needs of your customers.

Systems
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Tools and Systems

It's your technology. Shouldn’t you see where it is every step of the way? Shyft’s reporting tools and systems give you access to real-time reports on all of your assets. You have the ability to pull advanced reporting on any of your complex integrated solutions — or any of your configured endpoint devices — whenever you need it.

VPN and Hosted Virtual Machines

We can provide VPN access so your engineers can remote into the system and custom configure an order. We create a secure partition so your engineers can play in a sandbox environment and show your end customers how the product actually works.

Reporting

Pull detailed product reports and analytics on any material at any stage of your integration or endpoint devices during the configuration and customization process. Shyft also retains historical customer data, making it easy to pull up past information for comparison.

Inventory Management Software

Our inventory management software allows us to quickly stock and retrieve hardware for customer shipments and customer build projects. This service also helps us maximize our storage space so we can keep more of your hardware on hand.

Tracking and Scheduling

Shyft delivers tracking of the integration project through all phases, including allocation, inbound, integration, outbound, shipping and so on. Our technicians access the build instructions associated with the project through the system, and any questions or issues are logged for engineers to review.

Bill of Materials (BOM) Management

Our BOM tool is integrated with our other products and manages SKU’d hardware required for our builds.

Expertise
IT Integration Service Expert

Expertise with Benchmarking

Ensure that your technology is designed, integrated, configured, customized and deployed to the highest quality possible with Shyft. Our assembly facilities in the United States and Canada feature ISO 9001:2015 certifications, more than 150 workbenches and more than 80 engineers to handle your IT assets.

Multi-Vendor Certified Expertise

Having certified engineers across multiple OEM technologies allows you to integrate across multiple platforms. Our technical team holds more than 2,500 industry-recognized certifications with numerous vendor partners, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Toshiba.

Design and Build to Scale

From simple deployment validation to converged infrastructure concerns to the truly complex world of product design, Shyft can take your technology concept and bring it to life! Our engineers focus on product quality, consistency and scalability to help you grow your business.

Security

Shyft’s integration centers are located within our secure logistics centers and are managed by on-site security professionals 24x7x365. With CCTV cameras monitoring the inside of our facilities and an eight-foot perimeter fence along the exterior, your customers get state-of-the-art security for their solutions.

Quality Management

Our integration facilities feature homegrown tools that ensure consistent quality and robust reporting to improve processes and track corrective or preventive actions. Shyft’s tools are uniform, which allows us to share best practices, BOMs and build instructions across global facilities at the push of a button.

ISO Certified Operations

Shyft’s assembly facilities in the United States and Canada are ISO 9001:2015-certified integration centers. Our dedicated and skilled professional teams use quality controls and rigorous testing standards to ensure quality at every step and has enabled error-free production yields of greater than 99.5 percent.

Operations
All-in-one IT System Integration

Reduce Complexity With a Single Provider

Reduce operational complexities with Shyft’s unique combination of integration, configuration and customization services. From our state-of-the-art integration and logistics facility to the comprehensive breadth and depth of our services, expertise and capabilities, we deliver the highest-value that your business needs to succeed.

Global Integration Facilities

Your customers need their technology properly integrated and shipped on time so it is ready to plug in and go as soon as it arrives. With Shyft’s global footprint, your customers’ technology can be dispatched when it’s needed from any one of our facilities.

Single Invoicing

Take advantage of a converged infrastructure with multiple services on just one solution-level quote and invoice. One team will handle your entire experience, so you’re interfacing with the same experienced team members for all of your needs.

Distributor Agnostic

Every customer has a different expectation for their product sourcing and delivery. We work with multiple distributors to get your product to your customers — however, wherever and whenever they want it.

Marketing and Sales Support

Stay aligned with your channel without having to juggle multiple resellers by letting Shyft route your product to market within the channel. Take advantage of our extensive partnerships and experienced marketing and sales teams for marketing, messaging, enablement and more — all in one integrated solution.

Integration Customer Experience

Quick Turnaround

From the quality of technology produced to the efficiencies stacked behind it, we keep to our standard three- to five-day SLA turnaround for complex solutions so your customers receive their equipment and product sooner.

Build to Order

Reduce lead time and increase customer satisfaction with our hassle-free pre-racked, pre-integrated, advanced solutions. When you build to order, your inventory lives in our facilities, and we help you accelerate processing, building and delivery times with our world-class logistics solutions.

Vendor-Authorized Training

Bridge the technology training gap with our training resources. Our expert consultants can become an extension of your technical training program by instructing your customers’ engineers on a specific, complex build across multi-vendor platforms. We’ll work with you to develop an education solution completely tailored to fit your needs.

Customization

Customers expect plug-and-play solutions—and the true value of the systems you sell is fully realized only with the right peripherals, accessories and when other hardware and software is integrated. Shyft can customize any project to meet the needs of your customers.

System Integration Services Tools and Systems 2

Tools and Systems

It's your technology. Shouldn’t you see where it is every step of the way? Shyft’s reporting tools and systems give you access to real-time reports on all of your assets. You have the ability to pull advanced reporting on any of your complex integrated solutions — or any of your configured endpoint devices — whenever you need it.

VPN and Hosted Virtual Machines

We can provide VPN access so your engineers can remote into the system and custom configure an order. We create a secure partition so your engineers can play in a sandbox environment and show your end customers how the product actually works.

Reporting

Pull detailed product reports and analytics on any material at any stage of your integration or endpoint devices during the configuration and customization process. Shyft also retains historical customer data, making it easy to pull up past information for comparison.

Inventory Management Software

Our inventory management software allows us to quickly stock and retrieve hardware for customer shipments and customer build projects. This service also helps us maximize our storage space so we can keep more of your hardware on hand.

Tracking and Scheduling

Shyft delivers tracking of the integration project through all phases, including allocation, inbound, integration, outbound, shipping and so on. Our technicians access the build instructions associated with the project through the system, and any questions or issues are logged for engineers to review.

Bill of Materials (BOM) Management

Our BOM tool is integrated with our other products and manages SKU’d hardware required for our builds.

IT Integration Service Expert

Expertise with Benchmarking

Ensure that your technology is designed, integrated, configured, customized and deployed to the highest quality possible with Shyft. Our assembly facilities in the United States and Canada feature ISO 9001:2015 certifications, more than 150 workbenches and more than 80 engineers to handle your IT assets.

Multi-Vendor Certified Expertise

Having certified engineers across multiple OEM technologies allows you to integrate across multiple platforms. Our technical team holds more than 2,500 industry-recognized certifications with numerous vendor partners, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Toshiba.

Design and Build to Scale

From simple deployment validation to converged infrastructure concerns to the truly complex world of product design, Shyft can take your technology concept and bring it to life! Our engineers focus on product quality, consistency and scalability to help you grow your business.

Security

Shyft’s integration centers are located within our secure logistics centers and are managed by on-site security professionals 24x7x365. With CCTV cameras monitoring the inside of our facilities and an eight-foot perimeter fence along the exterior, your customers get state-of-the-art security for their solutions.

Quality Management

Our integration facilities feature homegrown tools that ensure consistent quality and robust reporting to improve processes and track corrective or preventive actions. Shyft’s tools are uniform, which allows us to share best practices, BOMs and build instructions across global facilities at the push of a button.

ISO Certified Operations

Shyft’s assembly facilities in the United States and Canada are ISO 9001:2015-certified integration centers. Our dedicated and skilled professional teams use quality controls and rigorous testing standards to ensure quality at every step and has enabled error-free production yields of greater than 99.5 percent.

All-in-one IT System Integration

Reduce Complexity With a Single Provider

Reduce operational complexities with Shyft’s unique combination of integration, configuration and customization services. From our state-of-the-art integration and logistics facility to the comprehensive breadth and depth of our services, expertise and capabilities, we deliver the highest-value that your business needs to succeed.

Global Integration Facilities

Your customers need their technology properly integrated and shipped on time so it is ready to plug in and go as soon as it arrives. With Shyft’s global footprint, your customers’ technology can be dispatched when it’s needed from any one of our facilities.

Single Invoicing

Take advantage of a converged infrastructure with multiple services on just one solution-level quote and invoice. One team will handle your entire experience, so you’re interfacing with the same experienced team members for all of your needs.

Distributor Agnostic

Every customer has a different expectation for their product sourcing and delivery. We work with multiple distributors to get your product to your customers — however, wherever and whenever they want it.

Marketing and Sales Support

Stay aligned with your channel without having to juggle multiple resellers by letting Shyft route your product to market within the channel. Take advantage of our extensive partnerships and experienced marketing and sales teams for marketing, messaging, enablement and more — all in one integrated solution.

Why Shyft?

For more than 45 years, we have been consistently in tune with customer needs, despite shifting market winds and changing technologies. Our world-class sales and support team brings deep expertise to every challenge you face — now and in the future. We’ll be here as long as you are.

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"Tech Data* has been very instrumental in helping us implement new products, configuration options and permutations. We have about 300 bills of materials (BOMs) that Tech Data* ships today. We want to be able to sell whatever the customer wants, whenever the customer wants it. And I’m very pleased with Tech Data’s* ability to deliver on that goal."

—Jeff Jeansonne, Senior Manager, Business and Commodity Management, Supply Chain at Quantum

“We really appreciated that Tech Data* had people with experience with Air Magnet and had a deep bench of experts who had worked in a hospital environment. It was easy to work with them to solve our customers’ problems.”

—VP of Professional Services, OEM

"We certainly knew about GLM’s* integration capabilities from the beginning, but we didn’t realize just how much we and our customers would value them when we started. With the volume and type of business we were doing, we began taking advantage of those capabilities within our first year in operation, with a healthy expansion year over year since that time. It’s a collaborative relationship; we have a partner we can rely on for the technology that our customers need, as well as services that scale to meet the growing demands and challenges our customers face.”

—Brian Reynolds, Co-founder and Managing Partner, CTG Federal

"AHEAD’s partnership with GLM* has helped us grow our business and expand into the areas that we wouldn't have been able to grow into organically. Throughout our partnership, GLM* has been incredibly flexible and helpful and just willing to do whatever it takes to service the customer.”

—Travis Kelley, Client Solutions Architect at AHEAD

Resources

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Quantum [Video] | Shyft Global Services

Streamlined supply chain solution delivers competitive advantage
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How outsourcing integration services increases configuration flexibility
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AHEAD | Shyft Global Services

Enabling rapid growth through integration and deployment services
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CTG Federal | Shyft Global Services

Outsourcing integration services to streamline operations
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Quantum | Shyft Global Services

Reducing cycle times and increasing configuration flexibility
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End-to-End Services Under One Roof: CenterPoint Facility | Shyft Global Services

Explore GLM's CenterPoint facility in Groveport, Ohio
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*Tech Data Global Lifecycle Management (GLM) is now Shyft Global Services