Leading communication company, Avaya, recently held its annual partner summit, as part of the Avaya ENGAGE event in Dubai. The Avaya Partner Summit 2020 honoured some of the most successful channel partners in the Avaya community, across the APAC and EMEA regions. 25 partners were awarded in total.
The awards took place at a gala-style dinner that was attended by more than 500 people from the Avaya channel partner community and technology alliance group. The awards explored themes like excellence in service delivery, cloud specialisation, open innovation, and more. Winners included some of the leading channel players in the UK, Middle East, Europe, China, and beyond.
Choosing the Winners
According to the VP of Channels at Avaya International, Fadi Moubarak, the winners for the event were chosen based on their ability to increase their importance and value proposition for Avaya customers in the last year. These channel partners have implemented and designed incredible communication solutions that solve some of the most significant issues for joint customers.
Moubarak also confirmed that Avaya was committed to empowering partner success, by adding that the Edge Partner Program aims to help make Avaya the ideal partner option for organisations hoping to differentiate themselves in the current marketplace.
Winners included:
- Best new partner of the year (International): Data Hub Integrated Solutions
- Customer Engagement partner of the year (EMEA): Croc
- Customer Engagement partner of the year (International): Dimension Data
- Enterprise cloud partner of the year (International): 4Net Technologies
- Enterprise distributor of the year (International): Redington Gulf
- Enterprise Growth partner of the year (EMEA): Quark Professional Services
- Innovation Partner of the year (International): GGT Deutschland GmbH
- Mid-market Distributor of the year (International): Digital Paper
- Service provider of the year (International): Hong Kong Telecommunications
- Art of Experience Award (International): Sabio Limited
- Team engagement partner of the year (EMEA): Middle East Telecoms
- Team engagement partner of the year (International): Beijing Teamsun Tech
- Art of Experience Award International: Inspira Enterprise
Avaya used the extensive Partner Summit experience to make a number of key announcements around the new subscription program that it will be offering to partners going forward, too. As part of Avaya ENGAGE, the company highlighted some of its latest cloud offers, advanced applications, and even innovations in biometrics and AI. The new announcements were presented to the winning partners as opportunities for finding new ways to accelerate business growth.
