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MARKETING
Pragma has formed a new partnership
with specialist marketing management
consultancy, Think Beyond. The
partnership will provide channel
partners with extended marketing
support including a comprehensive
analysis of their current marketing
activities, strategies and systems.
WILSON
CityFibre has appointed Andy Wilson
to oversee the company’s wholesale
channel as it focuses on driving
take-up across its growing full fi bre
footprint. Andy brings with him over
20 years of experience in the channel,
previously holding senior positions
within Virgin Media Business, DWS,
and Node4.
TOP
Yealink has topped the list for the
SIP phone segment for a second
consecutive year with a market share
of 27.3% in 2018, according to latest
Global Enterprise Communications
Platforms and Endpoints Market report
by Frost & Sullivan.
Centile launches enhanced mobile features
MOBIIS, CENTILE’S MOBILE application, optimised
for fixed-mobile convergence, is transforming the
way employees manage their business
communications. All the features of Centile’s
ISTRA platform are available on mobile phones
(Android and iOS), allowing users to better
communicate and manage their availability.
Collaborative work in a mobile environment is
thereby made easier.
The latest improvements to MOBiiS are:
-The integration of a secure, collaborative
enterprise messaging system that allows end
users to chat, share photos, videos, and files,
create public or private channels, and take
advantage of push mode notifications
-Adding features to an ongoing call that mobile
phones do not provide (on-the-fly recording,
supervised transfer (mobile BLF, N-way
conferences, etc.)
-Login/logout in groups, corporate visual voice mail
-The right to disconnect, now a legal obligation,
via the PRO ON-OFF button.
COMMUNICATIONS
The VAR’s Preferred Distributor
SWCOMMS CREATES NEW ENERGY OFFERING
SOUTH WEST COMMUNICATIONS
Group (swcomms) has signed
a partnership agreement
with Fidelity Energy to offer
a brand-new service to their
customers.
This will see the launch of
a new business, swcommsenergy
Ltd. The new entity
will be seeking to help their
customers reduce their power
consumption, minimise their
carbon footprint and get the
best value from their energy
contracts.
Jon Whiley, the Commercial
Director at swcomms,
said “This is an amazing
opportunity for swcomms
to move into a dynamic new
sector that is undergoing fluid
change, where companies are
looking for energy businesses
to bring an element of trust to
the market place and to help
them move to more sustainable
forms of energy.
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CALLCONNECT GP
Tollring is now the sole distributor
of CallConnect GP (formerly Patient
Connect). CallConnect GP helps
managers, receptionists and clinical
staff in surgeries to deliver courteous
and informed patient care, improving
the experience both for patients and
staff.
CLOUDFUEL
8×8, Poly and ScanSource have
announced they are joining forces
to help companies easily move away
from legacy on-premises business
communication systems to true cloudbased
communication solutions with a
joint global program named CloudFuel.
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