{"id":243812,"date":"2017-01-05T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=243812"},"modified":"2017-01-05T06:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:06:38","slug":"saipan-computer-services-celebrates-30th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-computer-services-celebrates-30th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan Computer Services celebrates 30th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-243812 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-computer-services-celebrates-30th-year\/scs-pix-8\/'>scs-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-243813'>\n\t\t\t\tSaipan Computer Services celebrated its 30th year of doing business in the CNMI last August. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-computer-services-celebrates-30th-year\/scs-pix-tiu\/'>scs-pix-tiu<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-243814'>\n\t\t\t\tJerry Tiu\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Saipan Computer Services, one of the oldest computer retail and service companies in the CNMI, turned 30 years old last Aug. 8, 2016. <\/p>\n<p>SCS business development director Jerry Tiu and SCS managing director Kazuko Kawabe-Tiu said they were able to reach 30 years on Saipan due to the many customers that have supported the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe owe everything that SCS has become to the customers that have been with us through the good and the bad,\u201d said Tiu.<\/p>\n<p>Tiu shared that SCS began with the same group of individuals that started United Micronesia Development Association.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group of individuals who formed UMDA incorporated SCS in 1986. They came up with a distributed computer system that rented out processing capabilities,\u201d said Tiu.<\/p>\n<p>He said in 1988 when the microcomputer came out business was not doing well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey readjusted the company to become one that focused on microcomputers and sales,\u201d recalled Tiu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1994, they approached me and asked if I wanted to take over it as they went on to other ventures. That is how we started,\u201d added Tiu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plans for the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Tiu, most companies are planning to survive in 2017. Such is the case for SCS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been experiencing difficulties since the last two years. It does not seem like it is going to become any better yet, so for now we just have to be prudent. SCS will remain to act on what the market wants and at the same time, SCS won\u2019t overextend because of the challenges we are currently facing,\u201d said Tiu.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about branching out to the other islands of the CNMI or to Guam, Tiu said not at this time. He, however, said on occasion SCS technicians, complete with their equipment, have been sent to Tinian and Rota. Tiu also shared SCS has even received units for repair from Guam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is the shipping is also an issue. Even sending people is a challenge, because sometimes they stay longer than they intend to,\u201d said Tiu, referring to looking at shipping units from Tinian, Rota, and Guam rather than opening other branches.<\/p>\n<p>Tiu shares that SCS is looking forward to serving the people of the CNMI as their demands change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to be sensitive to the market\u2014what they want; what they need; what is applicable; and as those run out, we will do our best to make these available to the market\u2026 Given that these are feasible,\u201d said Tiu.<\/p>\n<p>He also greeted the community a bountiful 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish you all a happy, healthy, and wealthy year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Computer Services, one of the oldest computer retail and service companies in the CNMI,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":243813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,26,51,1034],"class_list":["post-243812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-3","tag-cnmi","tag-guam","tag-scs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}