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MIDWICH PARTNERS WITH POLY
Midwich Group Plc has announced a new
Hardware as a Service programme. This
has been designed so that channel
partners can offer the latest UC
technology to their customers, without
the requirement for substantial upfront
outlay. The new offering coincides with
the announcement of a worldwide
distribution partnership with Poly.
ALLIOT TECHNOLOGIES
Specialist European IoT distributor Alliot
Technologies has announced a new
partnership with MultiTech. This new
agreement sees Alliot expand its
LoRaWAN gateway range throughout the
UK and Ireland.
RINGCENTRAL PARTNERSHIPS
RingCentral has announced a wave of
new partnerships with Alcatel-Lucent
Enterprise, Telarus and Atos. These aim
to support companies in helping
employees work from anywhere.
JOIN ANY MEETING, IN ANY ROOM WITH LOGITECH SWYTCH
LOGITECH HAS INTRODUCED the
Logitech Swytch, a link that
connects a laptop to a room
system’s AV equipment for use
with any video meeting or
webinar, including Microsoft
Teams and Zoom.
This extension to Logitech room
solutions is designed to improve
the video conferencing
experience as businesses
embrace remote working.
Using a single USB connection,
users can switch control of the
camera, audio devices and
display in meeting rooms to their
laptop.
Scott Wharton, vice president
and general manager of
Logitech Video Collaboration,
explained, “Most room solutions
are great and have made strides
in becoming easier to use, but
it’s often difficult to join
meetings with any video service
you want.
“For video to become
ubiquitous, joining video calls
with different platforms needs
to become as easy as making a
telephone call. With Swytch,
we’re taking it a step beyond
‘making every room a meeting
room’ and enabling a native
experience in conference rooms
that anyone can use and enjoy.”
Swytch is a compact, one-cable
laptop link that enables users to
run meetings from their laptop
with any video conferencing
AudPro refines its Music on Hold service for the channel
AUDPRO HAS REDUCED the
bespoke, high-quality Music on
minimum order value for channel
Hold message to introduce
partners by 50% for its Music on
possible customers to an
Hold messaging service. This
end-user business. Our reduced
new lower price point will allow
minimum order value will allow
resellers to incorporate
resellers to offer our highly
professionally recorded audio
customisable service to more
messaging into their product
clients, enabling businesses to
portfolios.
say exactly what they want to
AudPro’s Music on Hold service
callers and put their best foot
enables end-users to mix and
forward on the road to recovery.”
match thousands of possible
AudPro has also updated its
backing track, tone and voice
onboarding journey, with virtual
combinations, to produce
onboarding sessions and sales
bespoke messaging that gives
training that enables new
businesses a voice with volume.
partners to be set-up and selling
Not only to provide callers with
within one week. The New
an engaging experience and
Partner Toolkit also supports
high-quality audio messaging
resellers in their sales and
but to also reduce perceived
marketing, providing pre-written
wait-times and improve
emails and web-copy, as well as
customer satisfaction scores.
visual assets. This ensures
Andrew Jones (pictured),
businesses can develop
director at AudPro, commented,
successful marketing campaigns
“Nothing creates a better first
without investing significant
impression for callers than a
resources.
Wholesale SIP with a difference
platform, webinar or streaming
software. The Swytch USB
connector plugs directly into
laptops to quickly provide high
quality, native support of almost
any external video meeting
service.
Logitech Swytch is now
available globally, with pricing
starting at £899.
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