Tech Data Europe heeft een distributieovereenkomst gesloten met Nuance Communications. Dit houdt in dat Europese resellers en detailhandelaren hun aanbod kunnen uitbreiden met Nuance’s productiviteitsverhogende producten voor bedrijf en consument. Deze overeenkomst verstevigt de huidige relatie tussen Tech Data en Nuance en is van strategisch belang voor de ontwikkeling van Nuance’s verkoopkanalen in Europa, het Midden Oosten en Afrika. De distributieovereenkomst met Tech Data geeft Nuance ook toegang tot nieuwe opkomende markten als Polen, Tsjechië, Israël en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten.
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Tech Data signs European agreement with Nuance Communications
Complete range of award winning business and consumer speech recognition and imaging solutions now within reach of all European resellers
Amsterdam, November 28th 2006 - Tech Data Europe has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Nuance Communications. Inc (Nasdaq: NUAN) , a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, to provide resellers and retailers across the continent with access to Nuance’s leading range of productivity enhancing business and consumer products. The agreement extends the current relationship between the two companies to now include countries in the developing NME region, in addition to the existing EMEA territories.
The extended agreement between Tech Data Europe and Nuance will enable more resellers and retailers to aggressively target the expanding retail business, enterprise and vertical sector markets, to bring Nuance’s solutions to far more businesses across even more territories.
“We are delighted to have signed this agreement with Nuance”, says Bert Schep, Group Software Manager EMEA at Tech Data. “There is a great deal of potential for both speech recognition and imaging in the business and home markets and Nuance has a excellent solutions that can meet a wide range of needs. For many resellers, Nuance has the power to open up new opportunities with existing or new customers.”
This latest channel agreement with Tech Data is one of the most significant for Nuance in International since it has changed its name from ScanSoft to Nuance last year. The agreement is strategically important for further developing Nuance’s channel presence and customer base across Europe, Middle-East and Africa and gives Nuance an entry in new emerging markets like Poland, Czech Republic, Israel and United Arab Emirates.
Steven Steenhaut, Marketing Director, Productivity Solutions at Nuance Communications International said: “Nuance is very positive that the latest agreement with Tech Data, will successfully build on the excellent progress the two companies have made to date, and that it will play a significant role in further increasing the prevalence of Nuance solutions among the end user community.”
He added: “The agreement with Tech Data will provide Nuance with an extremely effective method of capitalizing on new opportunities in existing and emerging markets, across a broad range of business sectors. Now even more value-added resellers will be able to offer Nuance’s productivity enhancing solutions and advanced technology to bring appreciable benefits to their customers’ businesses, and drive even more value from their investment in technology solutions. Nuance also values the tools Tech Data has in place to support it’s vendors in terms of license Online, marketing support and E-platform opportunities very highly.
Nuance has the largest portfolio of speech and imaging products, backed by a professional services organization that provides expert support and advice for both partners and end-user customers. The company’s award-winning range of products includes the world’s leading speech recognition software, Dragon™ NaturallySpeaking®, which converts speech into text at up to 160 words-per-minute, at accuracy levels of up to 99 percent, and allows users to control Microsoft Windows and to create new documents and e-mails, navigate programs, and surf the Web, all by voice.
Other key Nuance solutions include OmniPage® Professional, the market-leading optical character recognition system; the ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 4, which enables users to view and edit PDF documents; and the versatile document sharing and management application, PaperPort® Professional. The full range of products can be found at
www.nuance.com.
About Tech Data
Founded in 1974, Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS: TECD) is a leading distributor of IT products, with more than 90,000 customers in over 100 countries. The company's business model enables technology solution providers, manufacturers and publishers to cost-effectively sell to and support end users ranging from small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) to large enterprises. Ranked 107th on the FORTUNE 500®, Tech Data generated $20.5 billion in sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2006. For more information, visit
www.techdata.com.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit
www.nuance.com.
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