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

SYNNEX Corporation http://www.synnex.com/ (NYSE: SNX), a leadingdistributor of IT products and services, today announced the launch ofits Convergence Design Tool Featuring Avaya, the first tool of aninnovative suite of new configuration design tools available to SYNNEXresellers. The Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya enables resellersto create designs and convert them automatically into quotes,drastically minimizing sales cycles and increasing revenues. The toolfalls under the SYNNEX CONVERGESolv Secure Networking group, whichallows resellers to build their customers' networks, add applicationsand secure each network seamlessly. "This enhancement to the SYNNEX solutions portfolio demonstrates ourcommitment to equipping resellers with the industry's most innovativetools and resources to help differentiate themselves from theircompetition," 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 orderis truly a game-changing solution for our customers in this space." The highly anticipated Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya allowsresellers to create custom designs for solutions based on the Avaya IPOffice Platform and simplifies integration of the design with Avaya'sspecial pricing, promotions and deal registrations in a seamlessprocess. The SYNNEX tool provides all details in real time, allowing thesame platform for product availability, custom pricing, design andordering, with value-added features such as customizable spreadsheetdownloads and personal and dual layer error check functionality. In itsnext phase of enhancements, the tool adds third party vendors, serversand services, which further differentiates the offering for SYNNEXresellers. "Responsiveness to customers is a major factor in achieving new salesand ensuring their satisfaction and loyalty over the length of therelationship. By extension, this translates to growth for the channelpartner and vendor," said Richard Steranka, Vice President, WorldwideChannels, Avaya. "Offering the SYNNEX Convergence Design Tool featuringAvaya to partners and integrating it with the Avaya One Source platformensures that responsiveness on the front end of the sale, which sets atone for the kind of service the customer can expect. We applaud SYNNEXfor their innovation and dedication to enabling the success of ourmutual partners." The Convergence Design Tool featuring Avaya enriches SYNNEX CONVERGESolvgroup's robust Avaya offering, which provides significant opportunitiesfor data-centric resellers to capture unified communications (UC)opportunities through a comprehensive approach to collaborativecommunications. This offering brings the power of premise networking, UC,cloud and mobility into one best-of-breed delivery to the IT channel. Italso enhances the SYNNEX' CLOUDSolv monthly hosted voice solutionpowered by Avaya IP Office, which gives resellers the option to movefrom a referral agent model to a recurring monthly service model thatprovides the opportunity for long-term, recurring revenue streams toresellers. To learn more about the SYNNEX CONVERGESolv Secure Networking Group,visit www.synnex.com/convergesolv. To learn about the Convergence DesignTool featuring Avaya through SYNNEX Corporation emailconvergencedesign@synnex.com.