SHI cleans up in the UK

3436142cf514e59f3acf71e47579299aUS reseller SHI International has reported a 12 percent annual spike in revenues, and the UK was its star.

SHI’s revenue in 2017 topped $8.5 billion making it a record year for the firm. While its corporate and SMB division witnessed 21 percent year on year revenue growth, it was the UK which drove its international business with 28 percent growth.

SHI had 10 per cent year on year growth for its commercial and strategic enterprise division, while its public sector unit grew five percent.

CEO Thai Lee said that for the last 18 months, SHI made significant investments in onboarding additional resources and expertise in support of public and hybrid cloud solutions featuring technologies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

“Through intense in-house training and aggressive talent acquisition, we’ve become a holistic resource for customers, capable of supporting both the technology and the business aspects needed to enable and support advanced IT solutions,” said Lee.

Microsoft remained SHI’s top partner in 2017, growing 15 percent over 2016, while Amazon Web Services was the fastest growing top-tier partner for the second year in a row, with a 62 percent leap in the past year.

Cisco saw the second-fastest growth of its top vendors, with revenue 33 percent higher than in 2016. Dell, HP Inc., VMware, Lenovo, Adobe, Apple, HP Enterprise, and Symantec rounded out the list of SHI’s top 11 partners.