Polycom Announces Partner Awards at TEAM Polycom 2013
TEAM POLYCOM, VANCOUVER, Canada th Feb. 7, 2013 th Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), today honored top-performing partners from around the world at an awards ceremony during TEAM Polycom 2013, the company's annual sales and partner conference, held in Vancouver
(Media-Newswire.com) - TEAM POLYCOM, VANCOUVER, Canada – Feb. 7, 2013 – Polycom, Inc. ( Nasdaq: PLCM ), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications and collaboration ( UC&C ), today honored top-performing partners from around the world at an awards ceremony during TEAM Polycom 2013, the company’s annual sales and partner conference, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, February 4-7, 2013. The Polycom Partner Awards recognize companies for leadership in each of the major partner categories and for excellence in the areas of services, innovation, integration, and industry focus. In total, Polycom honored 70 companies for their achievements in 2012.
“We are thrilled to recognize and honor these top-performing partners who really went above and beyond to meet the needs of our joint customers,” said Ron Myers, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels, Polycom. “We serve a growing customer base, and an increasingly diverse one, as the power of video collaboration is fast becoming a business requirement for every organization, large and small. The Polycom Partner Award winners highlight how together we best meet the solution, service, and support needs of our customers. Our partners are absolutely critical to our success and these awards shine a spotlight so we can all learn from their achievements."
The Polycom Partner Awards recognize global partners whose achievements impact Polycom's business on a worldwide basis, theater awards for each of the company's five operating regions, and country awards to partners that primarily do business within a single country. In addition to awards recognizing leaders in each key category, Polycom also recognizes partners with the Excellence Awards:
Excellence in Services recognizes partners who excelled in services, customer satisfaction and engagement with Polycom's services and sales teams. Excellence in Innovation honors partners who demonstrated a unique or innovative approach to implementing Polycom solutions. Excellence in Integration spotlights partners that successfully integrated Polycom solutions with a UC platform from a strategic alliance partner. Excellence in Industry recognizes partners that were successful in pursuing business within a major vertical industry, such as education, healthcare, or government. Award winners are part of the Polycom Partner Network, a global ecosystem of alliance and channel partners. The nearly 7,000 Polycom Partner Network members embrace and extend Polycom's open standards-based video collaboration solutions to deliver comprehensive UC&C solutions for the enterprise as well as applications to support a growing number of use cases across vertical industries such as healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, financial services, media and entertainment. As part of the Polycom Partner Network, technology providers, ISVs, solution advisors, integrators, service providers, and other companies can work with Polycom and each other to deliver tailored solutions for the multi-faceted needs of today’s organizations.
Partners were nominated and reviewed by a panel of Polycom’s worldwide and theater executives.
Polycom’s Global Partner Award winners include:
Distributor of the Year ScanSource
Solution Advisor of the Year Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
Service Provider of the Year AT&T
System Integrator of the Year Dimension Data
Excellence in Services Award Whitlock
Excellence in Innovation Award Samsung SDS
Excellence in Integration Award Siemens Enterprise Communications
Excellence in Industry Award Solutionz
Polycom’s Theater Partner Award winners include:
Asia Pacific
Distributor of the Year Transition Systems Pte Ltd
Solution Advisor of the Year Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
Service Provider of the Year Airtel Business
System Integrator of the Year Beijing Transtrue Technology Inc.
Excellence in Services Award Digital China ( China ) Limited
Excellence in Innovation Award Samsung SDS
Excellence in Integration Award Hewlett-Packard New Zealand
Excellence in Industry Award Presto Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd.
Central/Latin America
Distributor of the Year Nexsys
Solution Advisor of the Year Reto Industrial
System Integrator of the Year Intergrupo
Excellence in Services Award Digitalnet
Excellence in Integration Award Siemens Enterprise Communications
Excellence in Industry Award Pleimec
Europe/Middle East/Africa
Distributor of the Year Imago
Solution Advisor of the Year IEC Group
Service Provider of the Year BT
System Integrator of the Year Dimension Data
Excellence in Services Award CROC
Excellence in Innovation Award Internet Videocommunications
Excellence in Integration Award Atlantis Telecom
Excellence in Industry Award ImageFlow
North America
Distributor of the Year ScanSource
Solution Advisor of the Year SKC
Service Provider of the Year 8X8
System Integrator of the Year General Dynamics
Excellence in Services Award Whitlock
Excellence in Innovation Award NetXUSA
Excellence in Integration Award Extrateam
Excellence in Industry Award Solutionz
Polycom’s Country Partner Award winners include:
Asia Pacific
Partner of the Year - China Jiangsu Qunli Modern Science Technology Develop Co., Ltd
Partner of the Year - Hong Kong/Taiwan Ultra Active Technology Limited
Partner of the Year - Japan Princeton Technology, Ltd.
Partner of the Year - Australia & New Zealand Electroboard Solutions Pty Ltd
Partner of the Year - India & South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation AGC Networks Limited
Partner of the Year - Southeast Asia PT Westcon Group
Partner of the Year - Korea Softbank Commerce Korea
Central/Latin America
Partner of the Year - Brazil Digitalnet Brasil
Partner of the Year - Mexico Limbergy
Partner of the Year - Chile Touchmedia
Partner of the Year - Ecuador Metrotek
Partner of the Year - Argentina El Cubo
Partner of the Year - Peru Coatel
Partner of the Year – Caribbean AVC
Europe/Middle East/Africa
Partner of the Year - UK & Ireland AVM Impact
Partner of the Year – France SFR
Partner of the Year – Germany Ingram Micro Distribution GmbH
Partner of the Year – Spain Profinsa
Partner of the Year – Italy Ayno
Partner of the Year – Benelux Go Connect
Partner of the Year – Nordics SEC Datacom
Partner of the Year – Russia OCS Distribution
Partner of the Year – Middle East North Africa DataBox
Partner of the Year – Israel, South Africa, Greece Kathea
Partner of the Year – Austria & Switzerland Kilchenmann AG
Partner of the Year – Eastern Europe Damovo Polska
North America
Partner of the Year - United States AVI-SPL
Partner of the Year - Canada Telus
Partner of the Year - Federal ProTel
Partner DMR of the Year CDW
About Polycom Polycom is the global leader in open standards-based unified communications and collaboration ( UC&C ) solutions for voice and video collaboration, trusted by more than 415,000 customers around the world. Polycom solutions are powered by the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich APIs that interoperate with the broadest set of communication, business, mobile and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration in any environment. Polycom and its ecosystem of over 7,000 partners provide truly unified communications solutions that deliver the best user experience, highest multi-vendor interoperability, and lowest TCO. Visit www.polycom.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to learn how we’re pushing the greatness of human collaboration forward.
Ellen Topp Polycom, Inc. +1 408 586 4041 ellen.topp@polycom.com
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