Red Hat SummitRALEIGH, N.C.-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that its Global Support Services team has been named a top-three finalist in the HDI Team Excellence Awards in recognition of the support leadership Red Hat delivers to its global enterprise customers.
The HDI Team Excellence Awards program honors the IT service and support professionals who have most enhanced the image of the support services profession by setting and achieving the highest standards of excellence in customer support. Submissions for the award are judged on criteria that include how the support team complements the company's mission, the nature of support and how the support group is organized, how the support team measures customer satisfaction and new processes or procedures that have been rolled out within the last 12 months.
Red Hat's subscription model provides customers with the latest open source technology, improved features, security updates and software and hardware certifications. It also includes access to unique knowledge and technical expertise from Red Hat's Global Support Services and engineering teams. In June 2010, Red Hat announced enhancements to its customer experience and subscription value with the general availability of a new global customer portal. The customer portal provides a single point of entry for Red Hat customers to access product knowledge such as document and video content, downloads, case management, security updates, subscription management and proactive planning tools such as uses cases and solutions.
"The top three finalists of HDI's Team Excellence, in either Internal or External, demonstrate to our support industry peers that the teams have achieved high levels of excellence in the three categories of people, process and technology, making Red Hat a leading-edge company in the support industry," said Sophie Klossner, executive director of Membership at HDI. "Because of the history of HDI's Team Excellence award winners and the quality of teams they represent, Red Hat is joining an elite group of companies that share in the excellence they have developed through their support teams, generating through their entire organization."
"Red Hat's Global Support Services team is responsible for earning and maintaining the loyalty of our subscribing customers. Through the reliable products we offer, the collaborative work we engage in with customers and partners and the high level of service we provide, we place our customer needs first," said Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Global Support Services at Red Hat. "We're excited to be recognized by HDI for the updates we have been driving to improve our support delivery to our global customers and extend the value of our subscriptions."
Red Hat has also been recognized for delivering customer value for seven consecutive years by the CIO Insight Vendor Value survey, an annual survey polling IT decision-makers at U.S.-based enterprises on how they perceive the value of their IT vendor's product and service offerings.
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