KIS was established in 1988 as an Enterprise Systems Integrator. Over the years, KIS has grown to become one of the West Coast’s most professional Network Integration Firms.  Our staff has been involved in 1000’s of Projects, Implementations, Upgrades, and Mission Critical Emergency Repairs.  KIS chose to become a strong, multi-disciplinary, vendor-agnostic provider of Professional Services based on our Clients’ feedback. 

 Our Clients clearly expressed 2 things to us:

•  Our Clients wanted KIS to be focused on the Clients’ needs, solely.
•  Our Clients identify Project Coordination among multiple vendors as a huge issue.  

It is because of our commitment to the Client that KIS maintains expertise and authorizations for multiple OEMs.  This allows KIS to bring that knowledge, experience, and agnostic approach to give the Client the information needed to make the best decision on the solution required.

The KIS Consulting Groups are focused teams comprised of highly experienced Technology and Business Consultants, Project Managers and talented Senior Engineers.  Each Group is run by a KIS Partner with 15 years (or more) experience in the Practice Areas covered by the Group.  Our Partners have extensive experience working from the Business perspective as well as the Technology perspective.

The Consultants and Engineers that make up the KIS Professional Services Groups have a deep commitment to the Clients of KIS.  Over 80% of the combined team has been at KIS for over 10 years.  This provides nearly unheard of continuity and stability in the often volatile world of IT.  KIS brings this powerful advantage to its Clients, giving the Client the comfort of knowing and working with Consultants and Engineers that are known by the Client and know the IT Environment.

KIS Professional Services Groups develop Project initiatives for certain Solutions.  These are called Business, Technology Deployment Solutions. BTD Solutions have been developed in several Practice Areas, and represent that KIS teams know the Business Advantages, know the Technology Advantages, and Know the Deployment Options.

KIS has consistently demonstrated a thorough understanding of the Enterprise Technologies and the Enterprise Issues those technologies resolve. KIS Consultants stay abreast of the newest Enterprise Issues and KIS Engineers maintain Manufacturer Certifications for the latest Enterprise Technology advancements.  KIS also maintains Corporate Certification’s with key vendors. KIS has deep experience, as well as high Authorization levels with Novell, Cisco, 3Com, Citrix, Microsoft, EqualLogic and many others.

Our primary core competencies are:

• Network
• Security
• Management
• Storage

Please visit the Cores to view the Practice Areas within each Core.  This will provide more information about the expertise KIS brings to its Clients in each Practice Area.