Polycom honours 2016 top partners with Circle of Excellence Award at TEAM Polycom 2016

Press release

Published January 20th, 2016 - 07:02 GMT

Al Bawaba

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), is announced the winners of its 2016 Circle of Excellence Awards at TEAM Polycom 2016, the company’s annual partner conference held in Nashville, Tennessee. During a special awards ceremony, Polycom recognised partner companies that excel at incorporating value-added solutions and services which create lasting value for customers. These partners also demonstrate the highest level of expertise in implementing Polycom’s solutions, while delivering best-in-class performance and exceptional sales results.

“The modern workspace is constantly evolving and our partners play a pivotal role in building integrated solutions that meet the needs of these changing environments,” said Glynn Jones, VP EMEA Channels and Advanced Technology Group. “With our valued partners, we are helping organisations of all sizes and industries leverage the power of collaboration, and build the workplace of the future. Together, we can help our customers drive critical business outcomes and transformation. We are proud to recognise our top-performing partners that help change the face of collaboration.

Honourees are part of the Polycom Partner Network, a global ecosystem of partners. Members embrace and extend Polycom's open standards-based video collaboration solutions to deliver comprehensive collaboration solutions for the enterprise and across vertical industries such as healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, financial services, media and entertainment and across business functions such as human resources, facilities, engineering and sales.

List of key winners at the 2016 Circle of Excellence Awards is below:

Polycom Circle of Excellence Awards, Global

Alliance Partner of the Year: Microsoft
Distribution Partner of the Year – Americas: ScanSource Communications
Distribution Partner of the Year – Asia Pacific: Nanjing Southern TelecomCo., Ltd.
Distribution Partner of the Year – EMEA: Imago ScanSource
Service Provider of the Year: 8x8, Inc.
Systems Integrator of the Year: Dimension Data
Service Partner of the Year: Visual Systems Group, Inc.
Partner of the Year – Americas : CDW
Partner of the Year – Asia Pacific: Otsuka Corporation
Partner of the Year – EMEA: Gamma

Polycom Circle of Excellence Awards for Europe, Middle East and Africa

Distribution Partner of the Year – Imago ScanSource
Partner of the Year – Gamma
Service Provider of the Year – Orange Business Services

Award nominations were reviewed by a panel of Polycom executives from around the world to select 2015 Polycom Circle of Excellence honourees.

Background Information

Polycom

Poly is the global communications company that powers authentic human connection and collaboration. Face to face, we sift and sort millions of verbal and non-verbal cues to glean meaning. Poly is finding new ways to inject these cues into audio and video communication to replicate the face to face experience. To build intimacy. To break walls and span distance. To nurture the simplicity and beauty of human connection.