Top U.S. Partners recognized in Cloud, Innovation, Service, MidMarket
and U.S. Federal categories
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Avaya ENGAGE – Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) honored six U.S.
partners for their outstanding collaboration, contribution, and
commitment to innovation. Avaya’s Partner of the Year Awards celebrate
leaders across five categories (Innovation, MidMarket, U.S. Federal,
Cloud, and Service) in addition to an award presented for Overall U.S.
Partner of the Year.
“Our partners are integral to Avaya’s success, so I’d like to
congratulate all of our award winners for their commitment to customers
and their passion for results over the past year,” said Gary Levy, Vice
President, U.S. Channels, Avaya. “These partners are delivering on their
strategic goals, evolving their businesses in new ways, and delivering
unmatched outcomes to our customers. Avaya looks forward to our
continued partnerships focusing on providing our customers innovative
solutions and service that create experiences that matter.”
The following winners were announced during Avaya ENGAGE in Austin, TX:
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Cloud Partner of the Year: Allegiant Technology
Allegiant
Technology is an authorized reseller of Avaya and an industry leader
in business communications, connectivity and continuity, outsourced IT
services, and security assurance. As one of Avaya’s largest “Powered
by” resellers, Allegiant Technology has developed both a direct and
wholesale business practice and created a world class underground data
center as well as technical expertise to be a single source provider
to MidMarket customers.
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U.S. Service Partner of the Year: ConvergeOne
ConvergeOne
is one of Avaya’s largest business partners with more than 2,700
employees in over 85 branch offices meeting the needs of enterprise
and IOC customers across the country. Following up last year’s wins
for Avaya Service Partner of the Year, ConvergeOne again delivered
incredible results in 2018 that included a consistent focus on
servicing one of Avaya’s largest customer segments, with over 70% of
customers taking advantage of retail maintenance offers.
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Innovation Partner of the Year: Windstream
With a solid
history of innovation and becoming Avaya’s first XCaaS partner in July
2014, Windstream was the first XCaaS provider to include Oceana and
Breeze as part of its Contact Center solution offering. This past
year, Windstream has shown the strength of Avaya Breeze and Oceana in
their XCaaS portfolio, adding new functionality that helps to empower
their enterprise clients to deliver better customer experiences.
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MidMarket Partner of the Year: Integration Partners Corp.
Integration
Partners Corporation designs, implements, and supports secure unified
communications and network solutions. The company achieved outstanding
sales of Avaya Mid-Market solutions during 2018 and continues to be
one of Avaya’s leading partners selling the full portfolio of
solutions and services. In FY18, they continued their leadership
position by achieving 18.5% YoY revenue growth with Avaya.
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U.S. Federal Partner of the Year: Jacobs Technology
Jacobs
Technology focuses on building long-term client relationships to
become one of the largest and most diverse providers of technical,
professional and construction services. They were not only Avaya’s
top-line revenue producer in the U.S. Federal space this year, but
also grew their overall business with Avaya 325% YoY. They sold the
most end point devices in the Federal market in fiscal year 2018 and
transacted the single largest device sale ever to a Federal Agency.
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Overall Partner of the Year: Carousel Industries of North America
As
an Avaya Diamond partner with more than 550 certifications, Carousel
helps IT leaders design and deploy leading Avaya UC&C, contact center,
networking, and cloud solutions. Following up from last year’s
Mid-Market Partner of the Year, in 2018 Carousel continued to achieve
outstanding sales of Avaya Mid-Market solutions. In 2018, the company
invested in all things Avaya, forming an Avaya Cloud team to ensure
strategic alignment. Carousel’s commitment to Avaya’s core business
was evident with a 37% growth in Contact Center, 112% YoY in Avaya
Professional Services (APS) and 20% growth across overall Product and
APS.
About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and every day
millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE:AVYA). For over
one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations around the globe to win –
by creating intelligent communications experiences for customers and
employees. Avaya builds open, converged and innovative solutions to
enhance and simplify communications and collaboration – in the cloud,
on-premise or a hybrid of both. To grow your business, we’re committed
to innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what’s next. We’re
the technology company you trust to help you deliver Experiences that
Matter. Visit us at www.avaya.com.
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