Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketUnified Communications and Collaboration vendor, Polycom, has introduced to the market a series of new financing options that it says puts comprehensive, tailored UC&C solutions within reach of more customers. At the same time, Polycom also released a range of financing options for its channel partners.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Financing is making $4 billion in credit available to channel partners worldwide, in particular to stimulate sales of its cloud, analytics and PureSystems technology while easing the path to apply and secure financing with a new mobile app.
IBM’s $4 million financing commitment follows a similar, albeit smaller $1 billion effort last year aimed at SMBs, an initiative the ven
Someone at Polycom (NASDAQ:PLCM) must love channel program overhauls.
Calling it the biggest announcement in its 22-year history, Polycom (NASDAQ: PLCM) has taken the wraps off a slew of new products and software releases designed to add functionality and expand the RealPresence platform into new environments and markets.
“This is the biggest announcement in our history — two years in the making,” said Jim Kruger, senior vice president of Global Solutions Mark
Polycom (NASDAQ: PLCM) has acquired Sentri, a Westborough, Mass.-based IT services specialist supporting Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) solutions such as Lync, SharePoint and Office 365, in a purchase the video collaboration vendor believes will help grow its services business and tighten its ties to Redmond.
Polycom did not specify the exact purchase price for Sentri, saying only that the transaction,
When Polycom, one of the best-known names in video conferencing and telepresence, warned of weak quarterly earnings yesterday, it raised a red flag for The VAR Guy. Has Polycom (NASDAQ: PLCM) hit a temporary bump, or is there a bigger industry issue here involving soft demand for video conferencing and telepresence solutions?
Distributor Tech Data (NASDAQ: TECD) has kicked off an initiative specific to SMB-focused resellers for special sales support, services and financing, streamlined and delivered under a new umbrella called TDPrioritySMB.
Tech Data, which announced the program at its annual Vendor Summit last week in Orlando, Fla., also is extending a credit uplift for certain SMB resellers, upping credit terms on H
Video conferencing is fast becoming a popular tool for communications among a growing number of businesses. But few want to invest the money in deploying the hardware necessary to make enterprise-class video conferencing and collaboration.
Polycom (NASDAQ: PLCM) will combine its RealPresence videoconferencing platform with AT&T’s (NYSE: T) Business Exchange telepresence solution and other services in a strategic accord between the two companies to deliver a higher grade of business-centric, cloud-based video meetings and collaborations.
Video is well on its way to becoming a universal presence not only in the IT marketplace and
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