Polycom Recognised as 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year
Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a
global leader in unified communications (UC), has been named the recipient of
2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year Award, for
the company’s leadership in delivering innovations that provide powerful,
enterprise-grade UC and visual collaboration solutions for customers. Polycom
has received the award for demonstrating excellence in innovation and
implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Polycom
will be officially honoured at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC)
2011 next month.
“Polycom is honoured to receive this award as it demonstrates the momentum of
our strong relationship with Microsoft as well as the deep collaboration
between our two companies to deliver comprehensive and innovative UC solutions
that drive compelling business value for customers,” said Andrew Miller,
Polycom president and CEO. “Polycom and Microsoft share a passion for
delivering easy-to-use UC collaboration solutions that improve business
processes, productivity, and efficiency in the workplace. Together with our
partners, Polycom is focused on delivering on our vision for UC Everywhere™.”
Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of
more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. Polycom was recognised for providing
outstanding solutions and services in Microsoft Unified Communications
Innovation Partner of the Year. The Unified Communications Innovation Partner
of the Year Award honours partners who are building on the extensible Microsoft
Unified Communications platform offered by Lync/OCS and Microsoft Exchange, and
are delivering innovative solutions that integrate communications within
business applications and processes (CEBP). This award recognises Polycom, who
highlighted how its solution around CEBP has had a significant impact on how
people communicate and collaborate by enhancing the end-user experience,
increasing efficiency, or by extending the existing products with unique
add-ons.
"Microsoft is pleased to recognise Polycom as Unified Communications
Innovation Partner of the Year," said Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice
president of Microsoft Office Division Product Management Group at Microsoft.
"Polycom has created tangible value for customers through the development
of uniquely integrated audio and video conferencing solutions for the Microsoft
Unified Communications platform provided by Lync/OCS and Exchange. Polycom's
solutions successfully improve communication capabilities and overall
collaboration through a variety of enhancements that impact end-user experience
and efficiency, enabling true CEBP applications."
The Microsoft Partner Awards recognise Microsoft partners that have developed
and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. The
award builds upon the strategic relationship between Polycom and Microsoft,
which was expanded in August 2010 to deliver a complete, standards-based,
business class, end-to-end UC solution optimised for Microsoft environments.
Polycom and Microsoft’s directly integrated solutions have helped companies
ranging from fitness clubs to healthcare organisations lower their total
cost of ownership, streamline IT management, and improve redundancy protection
while providing an enterprise-level quality of experience and a secure
solution. Polycom and Microsoft have collaborated on over 100 global events
together and have jointly announced a portfolio of HD voice and video solutions
that directly interoperate with the Microsoft Lync™ platform and recently previewed
a powerful Polycom group collaboration system purpose-built for Lync,
code-named “Rally,” during Polycom’s June 1 webcast. Polycom plans to make
additional enterprise offerings available in the near future.
Polycom works with leading partners across the world, including strategic
Polycom Open Collaboration Network™ members, to deliver tightly integrated
unified collaboration solutions that give users easy access to powerful,
productivity-enhancing tools while protecting customers’ UC environment investments
through established standards and open interoperability.
About Polycom
Polycom, Inc. is a global leader in unified communications solutions with
industry-leading telepresence, video, voice, and infrastructure solutions built
on open standards. Polycom powers smarter conversations, transforming lives and
businesses worldwide. Please visit www.polycom.com.au for more information or
connect with Polycom on Twitter <http://twitter.com/@PolycomAlert>,
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/Polycom>,
and LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=1953916>.
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