A company known for their commitment to exceptional testing and certification practices, tekVizion have been helping to accelerate efficiency within connected businesses for over 16 years. Today, this privately-owned venture has set its sights on global growth, with the development of labs, presence, and support throughout EMEA and APAC.
Simon Richards, the MD for the APAC and EMEA region sat down to share his vision with me, and explain where the company is headed in the future.
Tell Us About the Upcoming Expansion into APAC and EMEA
Simon told me that the founders behind tekVizion are both engineers with a solid understanding of technology. They realised that the more essential tech became in the modern world, the more important it was to test and verify every part of the journey before presenting it to the end-user.
"We started life with a focus on creating better experiences for end customers, developing a huge relationship with Microsoft, and Cisco, as well as connections with many other companies like Ribbon (formerly Sonus), Unify, BroadSoft, and Avaya too."
Though tekVizion began as a predominantly North-American business, the expansion has been a very natural process for them:
"We own about 90% of the top PBXs used globally, and from that we've grown a huge customer base of vendors and service providers. However, we need to start putting resources in EMEA and APAC to support customers who want local, best-in-class support in those areas."
What Kind of Customers Do You Serve?
In the wake of the expansion, I was interested to learn what kinds of customers tekVizion would be reaching out to around the globe. Simon told me that their current primary customers are vendors and service providers, followed up by the partner ecosystem.
"We're just starting to look at the channel too, but one area we haven't entered yet is enterprise. The one vertical we have chosen to examine is financial services, and that's simply because we have FS specialists already in the company."
"Of course, the trading floor is a critical area for testing, particularly with regulations like GDPR starting to close in on everyone. We can automate testing for financial companies, to make sure that everything's working as it should be for compliance, with the On Point service."
