SYNNEX Corporation Expands Its Solutions Portfolio With Convergence Design Tool Featuring Avaya

SYNNEX Corporation http://www.synnex.com/

, a leading distributor of IT products and services, today announced the launch of its Convergence Design Tool Featuring Avaya, the first tool of an innovative suite of new configuration design tools available to SYNNEX resellers. The Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya enables resellers to create designs and convert them automatically into quotes, drastically minimizing sales cycles and increasing revenues. The tool falls under the SYNNEX CONVERGESolv Secure Networking group, which allows resellers to build their customers' networks, add applications and secure each network seamlessly. "This enhancement to the SYNNEX solutions portfolio demonstrates our commitment to equipping resellers with the industry's most innovative tools and resources to help differentiate themselves from their competition," said Peter Larocque, President, North America Distribution, SYNNEX Corporation. "Giving resellers the ability to create a design, send pricing to end-users and easily convert that design into an order is truly a game-changing solution for our customers in this space." The highly anticipated Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya allows resellers to create custom designs for solutions based on the Avaya IP Office Platform and simplifies integration of the design with Avaya's special pricing, promotions and deal registrations in a seamless process. The SYNNEX tool provides all details in real time, allowing the same platform for product availability, custom pricing, design and ordering, with value-added features such as customizable spreadsheet downloads and personal and dual layer error check functionality. In its next phase of enhancements, the tool adds third party vendors, servers and services, which further differentiates the offering for SYNNEX resellers. "Responsiveness to customers is a major factor in achieving new sales and ensuring their satisfaction and loyalty over the length of the relationship. By extension, this translates to growth for the channel partner and vendor," said Richard Steranka, Vice President, Worldwide Channels, Avaya. "Offering the SYNNEX Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya to partners and integrating it with the Avaya One Source platform ensures that responsiveness on the front end of the sale, which sets a tone for the kind of service the customer can expect. We applaud SYNNEX for their innovation and dedication to enabling the success of our mutual partners." The Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya enriches SYNNEX CONVERGESolv group's robust Avaya offering, which provides significant opportunities for data-centric resellers to capture unified communications (UC) opportunities through a comprehensive approach to collaborative communications. This offering brings the power of premise networking, UC, cloud and mobility into one best-of-breed delivery to the IT channel. It also enhances the SYNNEX' CLOUDSolv monthly hosted voice solution powered by Avaya IP Office, which gives resellers the option to move from a referral agent model to a recurring monthly service model that provides the opportunity for long-term, recurring revenue streams to resellers. To learn more about the SYNNEX CONVERGESolv Secure Networking Group, visit www.synnex.com/convergesolv. To learn about the Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya through SYNNEX Corporation email convergencedesign@synnex.com.