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Avaya Receives 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for Small-Medium Business Solution
Avaya IP Office Honored for Delivering Exceptional IP Telephony
| Source: Avaya Inc.
BASKING RIDGE, NJ--(Marketwire - November 19, 2008) - Avaya Inc. announced today that
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named Avaya IP Office as a
recipient of a 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by
INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.
Avaya IP Office is a sophisticated and affordable communications solution
that brings together the benefits of voice and Internet technologies to
enable a small or medium sized enterprise (SME) to have the same
business-critical applications available to a FORTUNE 500 firm. The suite
of applications helps SMEs maximize the productivity of their employees by
letting the entire staff communicate anytime, anywhere while helping to
significantly lowering operating costs.
"Responsiveness to customers is one of the biggest competitive advantages
for SMEs, but organizations are also challenged with maintaining employee
morale in a tough economy," said Geoffrey Baird, vice president and general
manager, Integrated Office Communications Group, Avaya. "This honor
reinforces our leadership and future investment in bringing IP
communications to the millions of small to medium sized organizations that
need to communicate with partners, customers and colleagues with the same
sophistication and efficiencies of their larger competitors."
"Advancing IP communications and providing solutions that add significant
value in this marketplace has earned Avaya recognition from the editors of
INTERNET TELEPHONY in the form of an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award,"
said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY. "IP Office
has excelled in delivering communications solutions for its customers, who
are extremely pleased and have offered their testaments of support."
In addition to helping businesses improve cost-efficiencies and customer
service, Avaya IP Office has been recognized as an important productivity
driver for workers in small and medium sized businesses. Employees can use
it to turn their home phones into office phones, access emails and business
calls via their mobile devices, use laptops to create conference calls or
work full-time from home with all of the capabilities of a branch office.
This delivers productivity boosts for employees and cost savings for small
businesses.
"Avaya IP Office has proven to bring outstanding contributions to IP
communications and winning solutions for its customers," added Rich
Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.
The 2008 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners are published in the
October 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com.
For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.
About Avaya
Avaya delivers Intelligent Communications solutions that help companies
transform their businesses to achieve marketplace advantage. More than 1
million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE
500®, use Avaya solutions for IP Telephony, Unified Communications,
Contact Centers and Communications-Enabled Business Processes. Avaya Global
Services provides comprehensive service and support for companies, small to
large.
For more information visit the Avaya Web site: www.avaya.com.
About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™.
Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY
magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged
communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from
solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services
from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000
readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit
www.itmag.com.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media
company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and
online. TMC publishes Customer
Interaction Solutions, INTERNET
TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first
publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC
Labs. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles
for the communications and technology industries, serving as many as three
million unique visitors globally each month according to Webtrends. In
addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELPHONY
Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer
Conference.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.