Avaya Announces DevConnect Partner Excellence Award Winners

BASKING RIDGE, NJ--(Marketwire - Jun 11, 2012) -

• Six DevConnect Technology Partners recognized for innovation and excellence in business communications and collaboration solutions
• Awards highlight commitment to bringing The Power of We™ to customers to help drive faster collaboration, smarter decisions and better business results

Avaya, a global provider of business collaboration systems, software and services, recently announced the 2012 recipients of its DevConnect Partner Excellence Awards Program.

The awards were presented to six technology partners who were considered for specific solution capabilities and characteristics of excellence, including innovation and creativity in addressing business challenges; services to build strong customer relationships; leadership excellence; integrity in partnering with Avaya, channels and customers; and commitment to the promotion and growth of Avaya.

The following Avaya DevConnect Technology Partners were recognized for their significant achievements in 2012:

• DevConnect Technology Partner of the Year -- Communication Resources Inc. (CRI) for the CRI Application Center, a "private cloud" computing environment for the Avaya UC Application Suite and related third party applications.
• DevConnect New Partner of the Year -- VBrick Systems for their Enterprise Streaming Video Platform, supporting the capture, management distribution and display of rich media content.
• DevConnect Innovation Award -- Esnatech for Office-Linx™, a UC platform providing a web-based framework enabling the integration of Avaya voice and mobile solutions to cloud-based business solutions such as Google Apps, Salesforce.com, VMware Zimbra®, and Microsoft® Office 365.
• DevConnect Innovation Award -- Interact CRM for their SMSConnect solution, which enables customer experience measurements through immediate post-call text message interactions and callback escalations.
• DevConnect Innovation Award -- Jebsen & Jessen for their CallMizz solution, which assists companies in capturing abandoned call information and converting those to leads and opportunities for both call center and mobile sales teams.
• DevConnect Innovation Award -- Phybridge for their UniPhyer solution, which enables customers to leverage existing voice infrastructure for a low-cost, disruption-free migration to IP telephony.

Learn more about these and other DevConnect Technology Partners and their innovative solutions by visiting www.devconnectmarketplace.com.

Quotes
"Avaya's commitment to 'The Power of We' extends to our Technology Partner community as well. For many customers, the value delivered by Avaya's ecosystem often exceeds their expectations and delivers greater business benefits than they ever imagined. With these DevConnect Partner Excellence Awards, we wanted to formally recognize those companies that truly embraced all aspects of 'The Power of We,' and in working with Avaya, are helping our mutual customers attain new successes in their respective business operations."
Eric Rossman, Vice-President, Developer Relations, Avaya

Additional Resources
www.avaya.com/devconnect
www.devconnectmarketplace.com

Tags
Avaya, communications solutions, devconnect, developers, collaboration, contact center, video, virtualization

About Avaya
Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.

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