Bolstering its unified communications bona fides, Windstream been named a Platinum Level Polycom Choice Partner by Polycom.
“It’s an honor to achieve Platinum Level — the highest designation in the award-winning Choice Partner program,” said Matt Preschern, Windstream’s senior vice president and enterprise chief marketing officer. “Windstream is committed to providing ‘smart solutions, personalized service’ to our customers and delivering the highest innovative industry standards with each uniquely designed, customer-specific unified communications solution. With Polycom providing the handset for our industry-leading virtual PBX solution, we’re able to offer an even broader range of affordable, easy-to-use, best-in-class IP telephony systems to our customers.”
Polycom’s Choice Partner Program emphasizes skills development, specialization, and other value added activities. The Platinum Level designation indicates that Windstream has invested and enhanced its technical expertise and go-to-market offerings. So, it demonstrates that Windstream has acquired the knowledge to assess, develop, install and offer ongoing support for Polycom installations to a variety of customer environments across industries.
“The Polycom Choice Partner Program gives customers the confidence that by choosing Windstream and Polycom, they’re working with a world-class team to address their business needs, which is important, given today’s increasingly competitive marketplace,” said Shawn Puddester, vice president of North America sales for global cloud and service provider solutions at Polycom.
Polycom Choice Partners are part of the Polycom Partner Network, which encompasses technology providers, ISVs, solution advisors, integrators, service providers and others.