HP and Avaya have announced a three-year partnership that will have HP selling and servicing Avaya UC solutions, including Avaya’s Aura platform.
Major IT vendors are moving into the Unified Communications space with alacrity, hoping to server as a one-stop shop for all their customers' needs. In the latest news, HP announces a partnership with Avaya. eWeek reports:
Hewlett-Packard is partnering with Avaya to help expand its unified communications offerings in its ongoing competition with Cisco Systems.
HP officials on June 29 announced a three-year alliance that will include HP selling and servicing Avaya UC and Contact Center products as part of HP’s UC&C (Unified Communications and Collaboration) enterprise-level services portfolio.
The announcement comes a year after HP rolled out a similar 10-year alliance with Alcatel-Lucent, and underscores HP’s strategy of partnering with a wide range of vendors to give customers options as they adopt a UC game plan.
Also last year, HP and Microsoft announced a four-year UC deal.
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