TD Azlan signs distribution agreement for Avaya in Norway
February 2010, Tech Data, Norway - TD Azlan has signed an agreement to distribute the full range of Avaya, giving value-added resellers in Norway access to the company’s leading range of communications and networking solutions and enabling them to call on Azlan’s services, support and resources to develop and grow their Avaya business.
Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications systems, providing provides unified communications, contact centres, and related services directly and through its channel partners to leading businesses and organisations around the world. Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and competitiveness. With its acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions, which was given the go-ahead in December 2009, Avaya has also become one of the leading players in the enterprise networking sector and can now provide complete end-to-end solutions that meet all the communications needs of large and-mid-sized organisations.
Bjørn Inge Thorsen, Enterprise Director, for TD Azlan in Norway says: “The agreement between TD Azlan with Avaya is excellent news for all value-added resellers of voice and data solutions in Norway. It gives them access to the newly unified portfolio of Avaya and Nortel Enterprise Solutions and enables them to make full use of the high level pre-sales support and the advanced logistics, online services and financial capabilities of TD Azlan. In doing so, they will be able to maximise their opportunities to grow their business with one of the world’s most renowned and trusted communications vendors. We will be working closely with Avaya to ensure that its partners have all access to the benefits of the company’s Partner Program and to additional skills development and sales and marketing resources that will enable them to develop their competency in Avaya solutions and take them to market with confidence.”
Commenting on behalf of Avaya Thomas Veit, Director EMEA Distribution Channel, states: “Avaya is pleased to have extended its strong relationship with TD Azlan in Europe to Norway. We believe that there is great potential for Avaya to extend its relationships with reseller partners and to help them drive growth with our solutions. The Avaya Norwegian Team is fully aligned with the Azlan go to market and will provide backing for TD Azlan and work together to identify and engage with VARs who have the ambition and desire to grow their business with Avaya.”
TD Azlan and Avaya already have a strong working relationship in a number of European countries, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. The two companies will build on this established partnership to share best practice and emulate their successes in other regions in Noray. TD Azlan is planning to run a reseller recruitment and enablement campaign for Avaya in Norway over the next few months. This program will enable VARs that wish to partner with Avaya to develop their knowledge and skills and achieve accredited status with Avaya. It will subsequently provide additional resources to ensure that resellers can maximise the benefits of the Avaya Partner Program and TD Azlan’s services. Pro-active business development support will also be provided to Avaya partners by TD Azlan.
About Azlan
Azlan, the Enterprise Division of Tech Data Corporation, is a leading value-added distributor of networking, communications, midrange enterprise server, storage and software solutions in Europe. We enable fast, cost-effective pan-European distribution of products and solutions for market leaders such as Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), IBM (NYSE: IBM), HP (NYSE: HP), VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Oracle (NasdaqGS: ORCL). Azlan provides a variety of other value creating services including channel development, marketing and sales support, training and certification, and finance programs designed to assist vendor and reseller partners in developing their SME and mid market opportunities. www.azlan.com
Azlan continues to build on its 25 year history of excellence, now as part of Tech Data, which acquired Azlan in March 2003. Tech Data generated $24.1 billion in net sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. Founded in 1974, Tech Data (NASDAQ:TECD) is a leading distributor of IT products, with more than 100,000 customers in over 100 countries. www.techdata.com
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