VANCOUVER, British Columbia & SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TEAM Polycom 2014 – 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 recognized 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 recognizing 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 recognized 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.”
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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: Honors 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: Honors 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: Recognizes partners who exhibit expertise in consulting, integrating managed and advanced services as well as developing innovations around the Cloud.
- Excellence in Services: Recognizes leaders committed to services, customer satisfaction, and close engagement with Polycom's services and sales teams.
- Excellence in Innovation: Honors 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: Recognizes a partner that has successfully integrated Polycom solutions with a UC&C platform from a strategic alliance partner.
- Excellence in Industry: Honorees 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: Honors 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: Honors 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 honorees 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.
About Polycom
Polycom helps organizations unleash the power of human collaboration. More than 400,000 companies and institutions worldwide defy distance with secure video, voice and content solutions from Polycom to increase productivity, speed time to market, provide better customer service, expand education and save lives. Polycom and its global partner ecosystem provide flexible collaboration solutions for any environment that deliver the best user experience, the broadest multi-vendor interoperability and unmatched investment protection. Visit www.polycom.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to learn more.
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