Siemens Communications has announced the 2007 reseller partner sales achievement awards. The winners, members of the Siemens Enterprise Partner Program, were honored at the 2008 Siemens Enterprise Partner Forum held in March in Orlando, FL.
The Siemens Enterprise Partner Program provides channel partners with competitive enterprise communication solutions, services and support to address the expanding market for unified communications solutions. The reseller sales channel offers Siemens and customers expanded reach in the marketplace with sales, implementation and service of business communications systems and solutions.
Award winners for fiscal year 2007 represent Siemens partners that have successfully demonstrated sales and support of Siemens in the enterprise communication market:
- Black Box Network Services was awarded the Siemens Sales Pinnacle – Enterprise Market Award for outstanding sales and achievement in selling the HiPath® 4000 real-time IP communications server to mid-sized and large enterprises. Winner for the second year in a row, Pennsylvania-based Black Box has continued to meet the needs of the larger enterprise market. In 2007, Black Box sold more HiPath 4000 units than any other partner and achieved the highest total revenue of any partner.
- Verizon Business received the Siemens Pinnacle Partnership Award for the service provider that significantly increased its Siemens revenue and orders over the previous year. A member of the Siemens Enterprise Partner Program since 2004, Verizon Business received the award for nearly doubling their annual Siemens revenue during fiscal year 2007. Verizon Business offers unified communications solutions based on Siemens’ technologies that provide the common platform for the delivery of IP telephony, messaging, mobility and security offerings. This is the third year that Verizon Business has received a Siemens Enterprise Partner Program Award and the second consecutive year the company has been honored with the Siemens Pinnacle Partnership Award.
- ABTECH was awarded the Siemens Sales Pinnacle in the SME Market Award for outstanding sales achievement in selling the HiPath® 3000 to small and mid-sized enterprises. Annapolis, Maryland-based ABTECH sold the highest volume of HiPath 3000 units of any reseller partner and nearly tripled their year-to-year Siemens revenue.
- Wyle Information Systems Group (formerly RS Information Systems) received the Siemens Shining Star Award, which is presented to the dedicated Siemens partner that has significantly increased its Siemens revenues and orders year-to-year as well as provided a shining example of partnership. Wyle Information Systems Group, based in McLean, Virginia, increased their Siemens revenue and orders by more than 60% since 2006.
The award winners reflect the continued success of Siemens’ unified communication solutions in the North American market, where Siemens and its reseller partners provide a comprehensive portfolio of integrated communication platforms, applications, phones, security solutions and management services. The Siemens portfolio of open communications solutions helps provide enterprises with practical and flexible approaches for deploying next-generation collaboration and customer interaction tools that interoperate with legacy systems. Siemens’ solutions support and interoperate with mixed-vendor environments.
“The continued success of our reseller partner program demonstrates the momentum and influence that Siemens is having delivering unified communications solutions to the enterprise market” said Mark Henley, Senior Vice President of Channel Management and Development, Siemens Communications, Inc. “Our award winners achieved significant growth as a result of their strong commitments to helping customers be more successful using the Siemens portfolio of solutions.”
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