SHI International Corp., formerly known as Software House International, is a privately owned provider of technology products and services, headquartered in Somerset, NJ. SHI has academic, corporate, enterprise, and public sector customers. SHI is a North America top 15 largest provider of IT Solutions, with 5,000 employees across 35+ offices in the United States, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. SHI has amassed 15,000 customers, including the likes of Boeing, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. SHI is owned by president and CEO Thai Lee, ranked on several of Forbes’ lists of billionaires, and is the largest Minority and Woman Owned Business Enterprise in the U.S. SHI operates two integration centers in Piscataway, N.J.. In 2020, SHI's Austin, Texas office will move into Garza Ranch to accommodate growth.
History
SHI was founded in November 1989 by Thai Lee and Koguan Leo. In July 2019 they agreed to a naming rights deal with Rutgers University's stadium. In 2016, SHI acquired Eastridge, a Microsoft services provider. In Q1 of 2017, SHI launched AWS Support Services for public cloud and forecasts, managing over $1 billion in customers’ Microsoft cloud assets in 2017. In 2017, SHI acquired eTelligent Solutions, Inc., maker of the cloud-based Technology Asset Management platform. In 2018, SHI received the Intel Technology PC Client Solution Partner of the Year award for its Zero Touch offering. In 2018, Sonde Health Inc., an affiliate of PureTech Health appointed SHI's president and CEO Thai Lee to its board of directors. In 2019, CRN ranked SHI #10 on the Solution Provider 500 list. In 2019, SHI signed a seven-year naming rights partnership with Rutgers University’s football stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Operations
Public Contracts Since 2015 In November 2018, SHI won a spot on a 10-year, $3.17B blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Navy to provide worldwide perpetual licenses and annual subscriptions for Microsoft-made software products to the Defense Department, intelligence community and U.S. Coast Guard. In October 2017, SHI achieved Managed Service Provider Partner status from Amazon Web Services. In April 2017, SHI was awarded a NASPO ValuePoint—Cloud Solutions master agreement, which allows the company to offer Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and value-added services to state and local public sector organizations across potentially every state in the U.S. In February 2017, SHI was named to a $13.7 million contract option to support the Defense Logistics Agency’s Microsoft software. In 2015, SHI was named to two NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V federal buying contracts for groups A and D.
