Dubai - United Arab Emirates, December 10th, 2015 : Aptec, an Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM) company, one of the largest value-added technology distributors in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, today announced that it has won the Best Distributor of the Year award at the recent Avaya Partner Forum 2016, held last month in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Manoj Karunakaran, Senior Business Unit Manager for Aptec commented, “We are delighted to receive this prestigious ‘Distributor of the Year award’ from Avaya, having been chosen among distributors from APAC, Middle East, Africa, Russia, CIS and Turkey. We are proud to be recognized for our mid-market contribution towards Avaya’s full-stack solution portfolios, directly aligning with Avaya’s technology focus and customer-first strategy. Our extensive channel approach to recruit, enable and grow together has been applauded by the partner community and created loyalty in the partner ecosystem towards Avaya midmarket solutions. We look forward to continuing our partnership and further growth.”
The highlight of the Avaya Partner Forum 2016, a two-day event hosted at the Atlantis the Palm in Dubai, the Avaya Awards celebrated the role Avaya Connect channel partners have played in driving Avaya’s success across the combined geographies. As customers’ needs and challenges evolve, Avaya’s partners are central to its strategy of delivering services-led, outcome-focused engagement.
More than 2,000 channel partners from across the combined regions interacted with Avaya global and solutions leaders and industry experts at keynote addresses, seminars and expert sessions at the Avaya Partner Forum. Partners were briefed on Avaya’s strategic vision for FY2016, as well as key emerging industry trends, including mobility, Cloud, Big Data, and analytics, and how they can work with Avaya to drive revenue growth from these opportunities.
“The Avaya Awards celebrate and recognize the role our partners play in driving Avaya’s growth and customer-centric strategy. We are investing and developing our partner ecosystem to enable more companies to implement business communications that improve customer experiences, team and employee productivity and network performance. The Avaya Partner Forum provides the perfect platform for us to drive innovation and deliver industry leadership across the combined regions.”- added Fadi Moubarak, Regional Channel Director, APAC, Middle East, Africa and Turkey Region.
About Ingram Micro Inc.
Ingram Micro helps businesses Realize the Promise of TechnologyTM. It delivers a full spectrum of global technology and supply chain services to businesses around the world. Deep expertise in technology solutions, mobility, cloud, and supply chain solutions enables its business partners to operate efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve. Unrivaled agility, deep market insights and the trust and dependability that come from decades of proven relationships, set Ingram Micro apart and ahead. More at www.ingrammicro.com.
About Avaya
Avaya is a leading provider of solutions that enable customer and team engagement across multiple channels and devices for better customer experience, increased productivity and enhanced financial performance. Its world-class contact center and unified communications technologies and services are available in a wide variety of flexible on-premises and cloud deployment options that seamlessly integrate with non-Avaya applications.
The Avaya Engagement Environment enables third parties to create and customize business applications for competitive advantage. Avaya’s fabric-based networking solutions help simplify and accelerate the deployment of business critical applications and services. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.