Welcome back to your weekly round-up of the latest industry happenings in the wonderful world of unified comms and collaboration.
Though this week was shorter than usual, it was still a busy one for news as Zoom reported relentless growth in its most recent quarter, Maintel’s full-year revenue showed the full impact of COVID-19 on the business and global solutions provider Unisys shelled out $!52.5m for Unify Square.
Zoom’s Sales Soar
The video conferencing vendor saw sales soar by 191 percent $956.2m for its quarter ending 30 April.
CEO Eric Yuan stated that he still expects Zoom’s software and products to be in high demand as businesses start to return to the office and a hybrid working culture develops:
“Many customers I talk to are looking to create hybrid solutions as they seek to cautiously reopen some offices. Second, each industry, company and individual vary in their optimal working model. Zoom is here to help each customer calibrate their future working model in their own way"
NEC Launches New UCaaS Solution in UK
The comms provider finally made its UNIVERGE BLUE CONNECT UCaaS offering available to UK channel partners, over a year since it was piloted in the US.
The solution offers fully integrated conferencing, collaboration, screen sharing, and video conferencing capabilities available from desktop or mobile devices.
UNIVERGE BLUE CONNECT is now available to NEC’s UK channel partner community and customers, as well as those in Australia and certain EMEA territories. This marks the third phase of a global rollout, with remaining international partners expected to be able to avail of the solutions by the end of this year.
UK & Ireland Sales Director, Andrew Cooper, stated:
“As arguably one of the broadest cloud platforms available, UNIVERGE BLUE enables telecoms, collaboration, backup, security, webinars, file sharing, and more within a single solution. If purchased from different vendors, all these have their own costs along with the resources to maintain and integrate them. If these are consolidated and streamlined, the cost of ownership is lowered considerably"
Maintel’s Results Hampered by Pandemic
The comms specialist saw revenue for its FY20 drop 13 percent as a result of the pandemic.
The reduction in turnover for its year ending 31 December 2020 was driven by delays in implementing project work due to the pandemic and a reduced managed services support base following the loss of several legacy contracts in 2019.
