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Sprint Paranet jumps into services

Sprint's computing services arm is jumping on the services bandwagon through an agreement with systems integrator Avnet Computer.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Sprint Paranet, the telecommunications company's computing services arm, is jumping on the services bandwagon through an agreement with systems integrator Avnet Computer.

Through a joint marketing agreement, Houston-based ="http: sprintparanet.com="" "="">Sprint Paranet and Tempe, Arizona-based ="http: www.avnet.com="" "="">Avnet will provide customers with one contact point for design, integration, and support of computer networks, as well as integration of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, business software used to manage most internal corporate functions, including financials and human resource information.

Together, the companies said they can create a service suite designed to simplify and shorten implementation timeframes, provide a higher degree of budget predictability, and improve end user support.

Sprint Paranet, a subsidiary of Sprint, employs 1,600 certified technical analysts specializing in WAN services, VPNs, Web hosting, and IP security. Avnet is a division of Avnet, which has annual sales of more than $5.9 billion.