Avaya has announced its first complete, multichannel unified communications and contact center cloud offers targeted for the midmarket.
Avaya Midmarket Cloud solutions are two flexible deployment options, enabling Avaya channel partners to seamlessly evolve midsize companies to the advanced capabilities needed for digital business. Both options, Powered by Avaya IP Office and OnAvaya – Google Cloud Platform, can enable “true, hybrid clouds that allow customers to maximize their investments in more than 1 million Avaya systems worldwide.”
Based on the Avaya IP Office Platform, Avaya Midmarket Cloud Solutions are the only unified communications and contact center cloud offers for midsize businesses in the market that utilize the same code base as those installed on premises.
For channel partners, this is the “easiest, most flexible and profitable means of moving customers to cloud, offering a full stack solution anyway customers want it, simplifying integration, leveraging product knowledge and experience and reducing the need for investment in new skill sets.”
For customers, a hybrid cloud option based on Avaya IP Office enables the deployment of new capabilities based on business needs, while leveraging existing investments in call control, phones and more.
Companies have more control over expenses and the rate at which full migration to cloud occurs, in addition to quickly bringing on new locations.
Avaya Midmarket Cloud Solutions now support full, multichannel unified communications and contact center capabilities, more operating systems and devices than any competitive cloud offer (PC and MAC web clients and Chrome OS), as well as the unique capabilities of Avaya Communicator for Web that enables communications from any browser-based application.
Partner Powered by Avaya IP Office
Partner Powered by Avaya IP Office is now globally available to qualified channel partners who wish to install the solution in the data center of their choice. Tested and proven during controlled introductions with 10 Avaya channel partners, Partner Powered by Avaya IP Office is already serving several thousand end-users in North America and Europe.
OnAvaya – Google Cloud Platform
Currently available in the US-only, the initial solution announced last Spring has been broadened to make it easier for selected partners that do not have the infrastructure to host and manage their own cloud. The solution also has expanded now to include full unified communications as well as multichannel contact center capabilities. End customers such as Diligent Benefits are already serving their customers via OnAvaya – Google Cloud Platform.
Avaya Midmarket Cloud Solutions is the latest in a series of Avaya programs focusing on enabling channel partners and midsize companies evolve communications to meet today’s requirements for mobile, digital business.
Avaya channel partners interested in delivering Avaya Midmarket Cloud Solutions can complete the Avaya MM Priority Cloud Partner Application. Currently, partners outside the US are only eligible for the Partner Powered by Avaya IP Office option and therefore must be able to provide the infrastructure or host in the data center of choice.
"Businesses, especially midsize ones, need a clear and practical path to the cloud,” said Ray Boggs, VP Small and Medium Business Research, IDC. “Channel partners do as well, to keep their businesses strong and healthy while providing customers with solutions delivered in the preferred fashion. A solid program for channel partners to deliver hybrid cloud brings the best of both worlds: leveraging existing expertise and customer relations to provide the cloud resources and new deployment approaches that can take everyone to the next stage of growth."