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DEVCONNECT
PCI Pal, the secure payments provider
for contact centres, has announced
it has been selected by Avaya for
membership as a Technology Partner in
the Avaya DevConnect program.
37%
of businesses say Managed Print
Services are very important to digital
transformation
POLY
ScanSource has expanded its longstanding
relationship with Plantronics,
now called Poly. Through this enhanced
relationship, ScanSource can now offer
the entire Poly portfolio to its partners
throughout Europe.
INSTANT*INSIGHT
Cato Networks has introduced Cato
Instant*Insight, the first time SIEM
capabilities have been included at no
cost in a secure access service edge
(SASE) platform. The service eliminates
deployment complexity, upfront
investment, and the learning curve
previously required with traditional
event managers, SIEMs, and network
analysis tools.
BICS CERTIFIED AS
SIP PROVIDER ON
OPENSCAPE
BICS HAS BEEN certified as
an official Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) Trunking
service provider for Unify’s
OpenScape Cloud. BICS’ SIP
Trunking solution connects
cloud platforms to fixed and
mobile networks around the
world with virtual phone
numbers and facilitates
integrated voice over IP (VoIP)
communications on a single
global infrastructure.
This certification means
BICS’ solution will work
seamlessly with OpenScape
Cloud and OpenScape
Voice solutions, allowing
Unify’s partners to offer a
complete end-to-end unified
communications (UCaaS)
solution to its enterprise
customers.
Luzia Stephan, Director
Technology Partner Program
at Unify said: “Our certification
of BICS strengthens our
best-in-class UC&C offering
and makes it easier than ever
before for our enterprise
customers to collaborate on
both a national and a global
scale. The pairing of Unify’s
solutions with BICS’ cloud
phone numbers and SIP
Trunking capabilities enables
our partners to provide
a comprehensive UCaaS
solution with unrivalled global
reach, helping organisations
throughout the world to
expand and scale.”
GAMMA ACQUIRES TELSIS
GAMMA HAS ACQUIRED Unified
Communications infrastructure
provider Telsis, a developer of
UCaaS solutions for small to
medium size enterprises, to
further drive its ambitions to be a
UCaaS leader across Europe.
Bringing the right combination
of specialist development skills
and engineering expertise, the
acquisition of Telsis will help
Gamma deliver its strategic goal
of being the leading player in
UCaaS.
Additionally, Telsis provides
established routes to market
that will support Gamma’s plans
to ultimately introduce their
expanding portfolio of UCaaS
services to the European market.
Based in Fareham in the UK,
Telsis employs approximately 25
people.
Andrew Taylor (pictured), Chief
Executive of Gamma, commented:
“We’re really pleased to
announce the acquisition of
Telsis. The development skills
they have are core to Gamma’s
UCaaS strategy and we plan to
enhance our existing engineering
teams to provide more resource
to accelerate our existing
roadmap. We look forward to
working alongside the Telsis
team as we continue to grow
Gamma and capitalise on the
opportunities ahead.”
Bhavesh Parmar, Chief
Executive of Telsis, commented:
“We are excited about being part
of the Gamma team and working
alongside them to accelerate
their development plans to further
enrich their UCaaS capability.
Telsis has a strong reputation for
designing disruptive technologies
that put human interaction first
and through this relationship we
will extend our reach and enable
a wider range of businesses to
access our solutions.”
CircleLoop unveils new partner programme
CIRCLELOOP HAS LAUNCHED its
presented to businesses by
new partner programme designed
legacy telecoms providers. Our
to help resellers sell its product to
customers want a clear, simple
their SME customers.
and modern service which can
CircleLoop now integrates
be instantly provisioned and
with over 15 other software
managed. With thousands of
products including Hubspot, Zoho,
customers and over 3 years
Office365, Freshdesk, Intercom
experience in the sector we are
and many more. This level of
now providing partners with a
integration provides partners with
significant opportunity to work
a strong additional product to sell
with us closely.”
and implement in their portfolio.
Partners will be able to setup,
manage and support CircleLoop
customers in a fully automated
Partner Management Platform.
Damian Hanson (pictured
with David Hague), co-founder
of CircleLoop, said, “CircleLoop
was developed because we
recognised the challenges
ALLIOT ANNOUNCES TRACKING
PARTNERSHIP WITH ABEEWAY
ALLIOT TECHNOLOGIES HAS announced its new partnership with IoT
tracking solutions provider, Abeeway. The agreement sees Alliot
become the UK’s main distribution arm for Abeeway products
which complement Alliot’s expanding end-to-end LoRa offering.
Through their use of multiple geolocation technologies with
LoRaWAN connectivity, Abeeway trackers can be used both
indoor and outdoor to track and monitor assets such as trucks,
containers, parcels, people and more with ease and accuracy.
The range offers devices from rechargeable micro trackers to
industrial trackers with up to 3 years battery life, monitoring up to
120 positions per day.
Alliot’s Product Development Director, Paul Hayes, said, “We are
thrilled to have become the UK’s official distributor for Abeeway.
We are constantly searching for the best solutions to meet our
customers’ requirements and Abeeway certainly lead in the field
of Geolocation tracking. Paired with our provisioning services
and expert technical support, we’re looking forward to growing
Abeeway throughout the UK.”
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