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ValCom
Company typePrivate
IndustryEnterprise software
ITSM
IT Staffing
Value-add Reseller
IT Project Management
Professional Services
Founded1983
Headquarters
Itasca, IL
,
USA
Key people
Charles Birmingham, President
Websitewww.valcomtechnology.com
www.pccval.com
www.webspoc.com

ValCom is a technology solutions company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. ValCom offers technology solutions that include an IT Service Management and Project Management software suite named WebSPOC,[1] IT services, and Strategic sourcing.

ValCom Business Units

ValCom's organization is composed of 5 separate business units: Product, Security, Staffing, Professional Services and IT Service Management.

Product

The Product division includes virtual warehousing, imaging, deployment, and e-procurement services along with a host of technology partnerships including partnerships with: HP,[2] Lenovo,[3] Microsoft,[4] and SoftwareONE.[5]

Security

Security offerings range from digital forensics and security health checks to regulatory compliance, SOX, GLBA and HIPAA. ValCom is a PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) as recognized by the PCI Security Standards Council[6] .[7] One of ValCom's chief security solution architects is John Chirillo,[8] author of the Hack Attacks series of books.[9] Hence, ValCom's security slogan, "We didn't just write the book on security, we wrote the Library."

Staffing

ValCom's staffing division specializes in IT staffing for special projects and contract-to-hire staffing.

Professional Services

Desktop management, managed services, infrastructure, storage, network, and server management, special projects and service desk offerings comprise the Professional Services division.

IT Service Management

Business process analysis, ITIL best practices, and project management, six sigma, lean six sigma and other governance and compliance solutions makeup the IT service management business unit of ValCom. This division includes the WebSPOC software solution, which is PinkVERIFY certified[10] for ITIL best practices by Pink Elephant.

Company Background

  • Founded in 1983
  • Corporate headquarters located in Itasca, IL
  • Offices concentrated in the midwest with a national and global reach
  • Products sold through direct sales and indirect channels including resellers, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers
  • Profitable every year since inception.
  • Majority of profits over the last ten years have been invested by its principals in multigenerational environmental and conservation initiatives.
  • Purchased in 2011 by PC Connection.

Brief history

ValCom was founded in 1983 as a hardware-driven company with a Fortune 500 account focus. In the early nineties, ValCom realigned the business to focus in IT services and later developed its own software to manage those services. In 2000, ValCom brought the tool to the web. ValCom spread into the Strategic Staffing Services sector the following year. In 2005, ValCom licensed its web-based tool, WebSPOC,[11] and offered it with SaaS,[12] hosted, or licensing options. ValCom's Security division earned PCI certification,[6] in 2008.

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References

  1. ^ "WebSPOC". ValCom. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  2. ^ "ValCom, Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP)". HP. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  3. ^ "Lenovo and ValCom Collaborate in the Lenovo Innovation Center to Develop Innovative Services Offerings based on Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies and LANDesk Management Suite for TVTs" (PDF). Lenovo. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  4. ^ "Partner Details". Microsoft. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  5. ^ "ValCom and SoftwareONE, Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership". dBusiness News. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
  6. ^ a b "Qualified Security Assessors" (PDF). PCI Security Standards Council. Retrieved 2008-08-05. Cite error: The named reference "PCI DSS" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  7. ^ "TransNational awarded PCI/DSS Level 1 Accreditation". WordPress TransNational. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  8. ^ "Interview with John Chirillo, author of "Hack Attacks Testing: How to Conduct Your Own Security Audit"". net-security.org. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
  9. ^ "John Chirillo". Amazon. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  10. ^ "PinkVERIFY Toolsets". Pink Elephant. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
  11. ^ "ValCom Introduces WebSPOC(R) IT Service Management Solution". Business Wire. 2006-01-23. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  12. ^ "WebSPOC Software as a Service (SaaS)". ValCom. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
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