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Helping Businesses Achieve More By TILDON DUNN 919 Magazine Writer 919 Magazine Photos by Catherine Davis Photography
SAM IT Solutions Provides Services To Ensure Success
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productivity. Digitalization was just beginning to take roots, and we helped accelerate that process for our clients,” Vijay explained. “We have now expanded our scope to help small and medium size businesses in various verticals, such as health care, manufacturing, law offices, retail, pharmaceuticals and biotech, etc.” SAM IT provides traditional IT help desk service, website design and development, custom software application development, and cloud services. “We are also a Microsoft and Google partner and provide Office 365 and Google Business Suite to our clients,” Vijay noted, while crediting the company’s success to his dynamic and very diverse team.
SAM IT SOLUTIONS YEAR OPENED: 2009 OWNER: Samudra Vijay KEY PERSONNEL: Jamie Pleasants, Yashpal, Caroline High ADDRESS: 2511 E NC Highway 54, Durham BUSINESS HOURS: 9 am-5 pm (M-F) WEBSITE: samitsolutions.com PHONE: 919-800-0044
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The SAM IT Solutions team does its best to keep client IT networks up and running – so they can focus on what they do best: Serving their customers. “Keeping our clients productive and efficient is our mission,” said Samudra Vijay, President and CEO of the 10-year-old company based in Durham. “One of our clients, Dr. Juneja of Cary Internal Medicine – a Cary-based primary care practice –told me…‘Sam, I want you to keep this machine humming; do whatever you need to do!’ We took this to heart.” Vijay, who is from a small town in the state of Rajasthan in India, trained as a mechanical engineer and did his Masters in Nuclear Engineering. After teaching engineering for several years, he moved to Cambridge, MA, to do his PhD in Engineering Systems. He later became a research fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency doing mathematical modeling – but when at home in the 919, he would often help his wife (Dr. Lalita Sidana, who is a physician with a Doctors Making Housecalls) with her IT needs. “I started helping her physician friends, and then slowly a business idea to provide IT services to physician offices took shape,” Vijay explained. “We saw that our creative solutions could be used to improve workflows and increase
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