Amsterdam, 20 februari 2014 –
Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) heeft de winnende partners bekend gemaakt van de Polycom Partner Award 2014. Dit gebeurde tijdens
TEAM Polycom 2014, de jaarlijkse partnerconferentie in Vancouver, Canada van 11 tot en met 13 februari 2014. Polycom erkent met deze awards bedrijven op basis van uitvoering en prestaties, klantsuccessen, bedrijfsresultaten en overall betrokkenheid bij het samen ontwikkelen van innovatieve oplossingen. In de Benelux werd Dimension Data uitgeroepen tot Partner of the Year Benelux.
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Innovation and Customer Success the Focus of Polycom 2014 Partner Awards
Winners Announced at Company’s Annual Partner Conference, TEAM Polycom 2014
VANCOUVER, Canada, TEAM Polycom 2014 and London, UK – Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), today announced the winners of its annual list of top-performing partners during
TEAM Polycom 2014, the company’s annual partner conference, held in Vancouver, Canada, February 11-13, 2014. Polycom recognised honorees based on execution and performance, customer success, business results, and overall commitment to co-developing innovative solutions.
“Partners are a critical component of Polycom’s success,” said Mike Conlon, Vice President of Worldwide Channels, Polycom. “Together, we serve a diverse customer base with unique challenges to solve. Our combined efforts help them succeed and together we will continue to drive growth and broader adoption of Polycom’s video, voice and content solutions."
In addition to recognising Polycom’s traditional go-to-market partners, Polycom honored its leading technology and alliance partners. Polycom’s open application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) are used by independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators, and service providers to test, create, and ultimately deliver new software applications and solutions that integrate with Polycom® RealPresence® Platform software. Polycom recognised partners and ISVs in several categories for demonstrating unique and innovative approaches to implementing those APIs to extend the value of the Polycom RealPresence Platform and software components.
“One of the most exciting aspects about the collaboration industry is the growing number of partners who are developing innovative approaches to implement, deliver and ultimately extend Polycom’s voice and video collaboration platform,” said Ted Colton, Group Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Polycom. “These partners are a key component of Polycom’s ecosystem. Our joint efforts make voice and video collaboration easier to integrate into everyday business processes providing substantial value to companies to engage employees, partners and customers significantly increasing productivity.”
Polycom’s Global Partner Award Honorees
- Partner of the Year Asia Pacific: Hitachi Cable Networks, Ltd.
- Partner of the Year Central and Latin America: DigitalNet
- Partner of the Year Europe, Middle East, Africa: Videlio-IEC
- Partner of the Year North America: AVI-SPL
- Distributor of the Year: Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
- Service Provider of the Year: Orange Business Services
- System Integrator of the Year: Dimension Data
- Strategic Alliance Partner of the Year: Microsoft
Polycom’s Theater Award Honorees
Asia Pacific
- Distributor of the Year: Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
- Solution Advisor of Year: Vantage Systems Pty Ltd
- Service Provider of the Year: Telstra Corporation Pty Ltd
- System Integrator of the Year: Beijing Transtrue Technology Inc.
- Excellence in Industry: Vantage Systems Pty Ltd
- Excellence in Innovation: Beijing Zhizhen Communication Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd.
- Cloud Solution Provider of the Year APAC: Electroboard Pty Ltd
Central/Latin America
- Distributor of the Year: Nexsys
- Solution Advisor of the Year: Pleimec
- System Integrator of the Year: NEC Chile
- Excellence in Integration Award : DigitalNet
- Excellence in Industry Award: DG10
Europe/Middle East/Africa
- Distributor of the Year: Westcon Convergence
- Solution Advisor of Year: BIS
- Service Provider of the Year: BT
- System Integrator of the Year: Dimension Data
- VOIP Provider of the Year: VCOMM
- Excellence in Industry: Imerja
- Excellence in Integration: FVC
- Excellence in Services: Croc
- Cloud Solution Provider of the Year: Easynet
North America
- Distributor of the Year: NETXUSA
- Solution Advisor of Year: HB Communications, Inc.
- Service Provider of the Year: Bell Canada
- System Integrator of the Year: Carousel Industries Inc.
- VOIP Provider of the Year: Comcast Corporation
- Excellence in Services Award: ScanSource Communications
Polycom’s Country Award Honorees
Asia Pacific
- Partner of the Year Australia & New Zealand: Vantage Systems Pty Ltd
- Partner of the Year Greater China: Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
- Partner of the Year Korea: SBCK Corp
- Partner of the Year India: Unify Enterprise Communications Pvt Ltd
- Partner of the Year Japan: Hitachi Cable Networks, Ltd.
- Partner of the Year South East Asia: Transition Systems Asia Pte Ltd
Central/Latin America
- Partner of the Year Brazil: DigitalNet
- Partner of the Year México: StorageDisc
- Partner of the Year Chile: ENTEL Chile
- Partner of the Year Ecuador: Eminkatech
- Partner of the Year Central America and Caribbean: Grupo FONT
Europe/Middle East/Africa
- Partner of the Year United Kingdom: Imago UK
- Partner of the Year France: Imago France
- Partner of the Year Israel, South Africa, Greece: Bynet
- Partner of the Year Middle East & North Africa: BCI
- Partner of the Year Germany: Unify
- Partner of the Year Nordics: SEC Datacom
- Partner of the Year Russia/CIS: Asteros
- Partner of the Year Benelux: Dimension Data
- Partner of the Year Spain: GTI
- Partner of the Year Italy: Ayno
- Partner of the Year Eastern Europe: Atlantis
North America
- Partner of the Year United States: AVI-SPL
Polycom’s Technology Partner Innovations Award Honorees
- Tech Partner Innovation Grand Prize: Vyopta
- Tech Partner Innovation Finalist: Eceptionist
- Tech Partner Innovation Runner up: RAMP
Polycom Partner Award Categories and Criteria:
- Distributor of the Year: Honours partners with a proven track record of promoting, selling, and servicing Polycom’s portfolio of products.
- Solution Advisor of the Year: Exemplifies excellence in solution selling and leading with a consultative approach in key accounts as well as incorporating value-added solutions and/or services.
- Service Provider of the Year: Honours a global market leader that excels in solution selling and demand generation in large enterprise accounts thereby reaping unprecedented success packaging solutions to meet a wide range of enterprise customer requirements.
- System Integrator of the Year: Recognises partners who exhibit expertise in consulting, integrating managed and advanced services as well as developing innovations around the Cloud.
- Excellence in Services: Recognises leaders committed to services, customer satisfaction, and close engagement with Polycom's services and sales teams.
- Excellence in Innovation: Honours partners that have demonstrated a unique and/or innovative approach to implementing Polycom® RealPresence® open application programming interfaces (APIs) to extend the value of the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform – the most comprehensive and interoperable unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) software infrastructure for universal video collaboration.
- Excellence in Integration: Recognises a partner that has successfully integrated Polycom solutions with a UC&C platform from a strategic alliance partner.
- Excellence in Industry: Honourees have achieved business success positioning Polycom solutions within a major vertical industry, such as education, healthcare, or government.
- Partner of the Year – Theater: Has a proven track record of solution selling and consultative approach with customers and excels at incorporating value-added and solutions within Theater.
- Partner of the Year – Country: Honours partners who have successfully incorporating value-added services, resulting in high-profile customers selecting Polycom’s solutions within a specific country.
- Cloud Solution Provider of the Year: Has achieved business success as a result of expanding its portfolio of products and solutions to include cloud delivered video, hosted video, video as a service.
- Tech Innovation Awards: Honours independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators, and service providers who test, create, and ultimately deliver new software applications and solutions that integrate with the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform software.
Polycom Partner Award honourees are part of the
Polycom Partner Network, a global ecosystem of partners. Members embrace and extend Polycom's open standards-based video collaboration solutions to deliver comprehensive UC&C solutions for the enterprise and across vertical industries such as healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, financial services, media and entertainment.
Partner Award nominations were submitted by members of the Polycom Partner Networks and reviewed by a panel of Polycom’s worldwide and theater executives.
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