Polycom last week honored top-performing partners from around the world at an awards ceremony during TEAM Polycom 2013, the company’s annual sales and partner conference, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb. 4-7, 2013. The Polycom Partner Awards recognize companies for leadership in each of the major partner categories and for excellence in the areas of services, innovation, integration and industry focus. In total, Polycom honored 70 companies for their achievements in 2012.

“We are thrilled to recognize and honor these top-performing partners who really went above and beyond to meet the needs of our joint customers,” said Ron Myers, senior vice president, worldwide channels, Polycom. “We serve a growing customer base, and an increasingly diverse one, as the power of video collaboration is fast becoming a business requirement for every organization, large and small. The Polycom Partner Award winners highlight how together we best meet the solution, service, and support needs of our customers. Our partners are absolutely critical to our success and these awards shine a spotlight so we can all learn from their achievements.”

The Polycom Partner Awards recognize global partners whose achievements impact Polycom’s business on a worldwide basis, theater awards for each of the company’s five operating regions, and country awards to partners that primarily do business within a single country. In addition to awards recognizing leaders in each key category, Polycom also recognizes partners with the Excellence Awards:

 

• Excellence in Services recognizes partners who excelled in services, customer satisfaction and engagement with Polycom’s services and sales teams.
• Excellence in Innovation honors partners who demonstrated a unique or innovative approach to implementing Polycom solutions.
• Excellence in Integration spotlights partners that successfully integrated Polycom solutions with a UC platform from a strategic alliance partner.
• Excellence in Industry recognizes partners that were successful in pursuing business within a major vertical industry, such as education, healthcare, or government.

Award winners are part of the Polycom Partner Network, a global ecosystem of alliance and channel partners. The nearly 7,000 Polycom Partner Network members embrace and extend Polycom’s open standards-based video collaboration solutions to deliver comprehensive UC&C solutions for the enterprise as well as applications to support a growing number of use cases across vertical industries such as healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, financial services, media and entertainment. As part of the Polycom Partner Network, technology providers, ISVs, solution advisors, integrators, service providers, and other companies can work with Polycom and each other to deliver tailored solutions for the multi-faceted needs of today’s organizations.

Polycom’s Global Partner Award winners include:

• Distributor of the Year – ScanSource
• Solution Advisor of the Year – Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
• Service Provider of the Year – AT&T
• System Integrator of the Year – Dimension Data
• Excellence in Services Award – Whitlock
• Excellence in Innovation Award – Samsung SDS
• Excellence in Integration Award – Siemens Enterprise Communications
• Excellence in Industry Award  – Solutionz

Polycom’s Theater Partner Award winners include:

• Asia Pacific Distributor of the Year – Transition Systems Pte Ltd
• Solution Advisor of the Year – Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
• Service Provider of the Year – Airtel Business
• System Integrator of the Year – Beijing Transtrue Technology Inc.
• Excellence in Services Award – Digital China (China) Limited
• Excellence in Innovation Award – Samsung SDS
• Excellence in Integration Award – Hewlett-Packard New Zealand
• Excellence in Industry Award – Presto Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd.
• Central/Latin America Distributor of the Year – Nexsys
• Solution Advisor of the Year – Reto Industrial
• System Integrator of the Year – Intergrupo
• Excellence in Services Award – Digitalnet
• Excellence in Integration Award – Siemens Enterprise Communications
• Excellence in Industry Award – Pleimec
• Europe/Middle East/Africa Distributor of the Year – Imago
• Solution Advisor of the Year – IEC Group
• Service Provider of the Year – BT
• System Integrator of the Year- Dimension Data
• Excellence in Services Award – CROC
• Excellence in Innovation Award – Internet Videocommunications
• Excellence in Integration Award – Atlantis Telecom
• Excellence in Industry Award – ImageFlow
• North America Distributor of the Year – ScanSource
• Solution Advisor of the Year – SKC
• Service Provider of the Year – 8X8
• System Integrator of the Year – General Dynamics
• Excellence in Services Award – Whitlock
• Excellence in Innovation Award – NetXUSA
• Excellence in Integration Award – Extrateam
• Excellence in Industry Award – Solutionz

Polycom’s Country Partner Award winners include:

• Asia Pacific Partner of the Year – China – Jiangsu Qunli Modern Science Technology Develop Co., Ltd
• Partner of the Year – Hong Kong/Taiwan – Ultra Active Technology Limited
• Partner of the Year – Japan – Princeton Technology, Ltd.
• Partner of the Year – Australia & New Zealand – Electroboard Solutions Pty Ltd
• Partner of the Year – India & South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation – AGC Networks Limited
• Partner of the Year – Southeast Asia – PT Westcon Group
• Partner of the Year – Korea – Softbank Commerce Korea
• Central/Latin America Partner of the Year – Brazil – Digitalnet Brasil
• Partner of the Year – Mexico – Limbergy
• Partner of the Year – Chile – Touchmedia
• Partner of the Year – Ecuador – Metrotek
• Partner of the Year – Argentina – El Cubo
• Partner of the Year – Peru – Coatel
• Partner of the Year – Caribbean – AVC
• Europe/Middle East/Africa Partner of the Year – UK & Ireland – AVM Impact
• Partner of the Year – France – SFR
• Partner of the Year – Germany – Ingram Micro Distribution GmbH
• Partner of the Year – Spain – Profinsa
• Partner of the Year – Italy – Ayno
• Partner of the Year – Benelux – Go Connect
• Partner of the Year – Nordics – SEC Datacom
• Partner of the Year – Russia – OCS Distribution
• Partner of the Year – Middle East North Africa – DataBox
• Partner of the Year – Israel, South Africa, Greece – Kathea
• Partner of the Year – Austria & Switzerland – Kilchenmann AG
• Partner of the Year – Eastern Europe – Damovo Polska
• North America Partner of the Year – United States – AVI-SPL
• Partner of the Year – Canada – Telus
• Partner of the Year – Federal – ProTel
• Partner DMR of the Year – CDW

Polycom can be found at: http://www.polycom.com